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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research

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This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.
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1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

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Virtual reality and augmented reality in social learning spaces: a literature review

TL;DR: This survey explores Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality within social learning spaces, such as classrooms and museums, while also extending into relevant social interaction concepts found within more reality-based and social immersive media frameworks.
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Becoming a writing teacher: Using “identity” as an analytic lens to understand EFL writing teachers’ development

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how teachers construct and negotiate their identities as they learn to become teachers of writing, and highlight a number of factors that influence teachers' negotiation of identities as writing teachers.
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Seeing culture and power in mathematical learning: toward a model of equitable instruction

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on creating equitable opportunities for learners in mathematics education through observations of teacher practice, and seek to theorize how teachers enact their dispositions toward mathematics instruction, in relation to teachers' aims for students to take up their space in and beyond the mathematics classroom.
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Studies in Expansive Learning: Learning What Is Not Yet There

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a conceptual and practical toolkit for creating and analyzing expansive learning processes with the help of interventions in workplaces, schools and communities, and provide an integrative account of recent empirical studies and conceptual developments in the theory of expansive learning, and serve as a companion volume to Learning by Expanding.
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Expert and novice teachers talking technology: precepts, concepts, and misconcepts

TL;DR: This study compares and contrasts the "technology talk" of novice and expert teachers of K-8 language and literacy (ESOL) as a set of four conceptual continua that can help in explicating novice starting points, transitional issues, and the expertise of computer-using language professionals.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes

TL;DR: In this paper, Cole and Scribner discuss the role of play in children's development and play as a tool and symbol in the development of perception and attention in a prehistory of written language.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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Thought and language

Lev Vygotsky
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.