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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications
TL;DR: Spinuzzi as mentioned in this paper draws on two warring theories of work activity -activity theory and actor-network theory -to examine the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive.
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Representing complexity well: a story about teamwork, with implications for how we teach collaboration
Lorelei Lingard,Allan McDougall,Mark Levstik,Natasha Chandok,Marlee M. Spafford,Catherine F. Schryer +5 more
TL;DR: This article explored the complexity of collaborative practice on a distributed transplant team and employed the theoretical lenses of activity theory to better understand the nature of collaborative complexity and its implications for current approaches to interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional education.
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Revealing the theoretical basis of gamification: A systematic review and analysis of theory in research on gamification, serious games and game-based learning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the theoretical foundations used in research on gamification, serious games and game-based learning through a systematic literature review and then discussed the commonalities of their core assumptions.
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Learning in two communities: the challenge for universities and workplaces
Cathrine Le Maistre,Anthony Paré +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study of school-to-work transitions in four professions: education, social work, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy is presented, and the authors draw on theory and data to help explain why the move from classroom to workplace is often so difficult.
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Identity, community, and learning lives in the digital age
Ola Erstad,Julian Sefton-Green +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a process of tracing learning and identity across sites: tensions, connections and transformations in and between everyday and institutional practices, and the construction of parents as learners about pre-school children's development.
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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
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
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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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Barry Checkoway,Donald A. Schön +1 more
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Thought and language
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.