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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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A framework to support educational decision making in mobile learning
TL;DR: A task-interaction framework to support education decision making in mobile learning based on the relationships between the different types of interactions occurring in a mobile learning activity and the tasks which are pedagogically relevant for the learning activity.
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Polylingual and polycultural learning ecologies: Mediating emergent academic literacies for dual language learners:
TL;DR: The authors examine the affordances of polylingual and polycultural learning ecologies in expanding the linguistic repertoires of children, particularly young Dual Language Learners, in contrast to settings that promote the development of English and academic language at the expense of maintaining and developing home language, arguing that the social organization of learning should privilege participation in dynamic, hybrid literacy practices.
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Learning in and for multi‐agency working
Harry Daniels,Jane Leadbetter,Paul Warmington,Anne Edwards,Deirdre Martin,Anna Popova,Apostol Apostolov,David Middleton,Steve Brown +8 more
TL;DR: The Learning in and for Inter-Agency Working Project (LILIW) as mentioned in this paper was a four-year ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme study of inter-professional learning which examined the challenges involved in what Victor and Boynton (1998) term coconfiguration work.
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Managing content in e-learning environments
Daisy Mwanza,Yrjö Engeström +1 more
TL;DR: An activity-centred approach to abstracting contextually and pedagogically enriched metadata descriptions of educational content and interactions with learning objects is presented.
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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.