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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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Activity centered design: towards a theoretical framework for CSCL
Bernard R. Gifford,Noel Enyedy +1 more
TL;DR: Activity Centered Design is argued for, a model of design for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning environments, based on the following assumptions: that activity is mediated by cultural tools, that activity must be conceptualized on a number of interdependent levels, and that conceptual understanding is first established socially.
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Interprofessional communication and medical error: a reframing of research questions and approaches.
TL;DR: It is proposed that research into interprofessional communication and medical error can develop better understandings of how and why medical errors are generated and how andwhy gaps in team defenses occur.
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The Evolving Object of Software Development
TL;DR: This paper explores how the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software development affects the object of software developers’ work and thereby affects organization structure.
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Writing and Genre in Higher Education and Workplaces: A Review of Studies That Use Cultural--Historical Activity Theory
TL;DR: This article reviewed a tradition of North American research on writing in higher education and workplaces that draws on cultural-historical activity approaches, and used qualitative and historical methods to trace the ways people create, appropriate, and recreate dynamic genres to mediate a wide range of social practices.
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Discussion: Enriching activity theory without shortcuts
TL;DR: Challenges in the elaboration of an intermediate unit between collective activity and individual action within activity theory are discussed, namely outcomes, not just purposes as the driving force of engagements, dimensions and types of engagement, and the importance of contradictions, alienation and expansion in the analysis of engagements.
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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.