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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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From Talk to Action: Experiencing Interlocution in Developmental Interventions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how to analyze and conceptualize the dynamics through which conversations in change laboratory research interventions lead to envisioning and implementing material changes in activities, using Leont'ev's concept of personal sense as a theoretical lens for tracing these dynamics and providing a means to relate local conversations to overall transformation of professional practices.
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Learning at the boundary: An introduction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how learning can be shaped by movements across boundaries and how boundaries can be crossed by people, objects and interactions and how this can lead to learning in different ways.
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Organizational learning and program renewal in teacher education: A socio-cultural theory of learning, innovation and change
TL;DR: In this paper, the Harre model and socio-cultural learning theories are used to understand complex social processes underlying organizational renewal, innovation, and change in teacher education programs, using a theoretical framework developed by Harre [Harre, R (1984) Personal being: A theory for individual psychology Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press].
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Addressing complex healthcare problems in diverse settings: insights from activity theory.
TL;DR: Activity theory (AT) is proposed as an alternative approach to identifying and understanding the challenges of addressing complex healthcare problems across diverse settings and shows how efforts to reduce variation from best practice may paradoxically remove a key source of practice improvement.
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Improving Sexual Health Education Programs for Adolescent Students through Game-Based Learning and Gamification
Hussein Haruna,Xiao Hu,Samuel Kai Wah Chu,Robin R. Mellecker,Goodluck Gabriel,Patrick Siril Ndekao +5 more
TL;DR: This study suggests that the two innovative teaching approaches can be used to improve the sexual health education of adolescent students, particularly in improving sexual health behaviour and adolescents’ knowledge in regions plagued by years of sexual health problems, including HIV/AIDS.
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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.