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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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Retrieving the research agenda for communication education: Asking the pedagogical questions that are “embarrassments to Theory”

Jo Sprague
TL;DR: In contrast to instructional communication scholarship that must cut across many fields, communication education research needs to be exceedingly content and context specific as discussed by the authors, recognizing the ways that theory and pedagogy mutually inform each other.
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Adopting a Grounded Theory Approach to Cultural-Historical Research: Conflicting Methodologies or Complementary Methods?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the recent transformation of grounded theory and engage in the project of repositioning it as an approach by using cultural historical activity theory as a test case.
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Evaluating technology-enhanced learning: A comprehensive framework.

TL;DR: A comprehensive framework for approaching TEL evaluation in medical education is outlined and instruments for measuring the perceptions of TEL learners and instructors are developed to avoid duplication of effort and allow cross-course comparisons.
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ICT integration processes in Turkish schools: Using activity theory to study issues and contradictions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used activity theory to examine complex pedagogical, social, and technological issues in ICT integration process at the classroom level, identifying and analyzing the contradictions within the activity system and discussed potential effects.
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Learning with the market: Facilitating market innovation

TL;DR: In this paper, a market-learning cycle framework is developed to delineate the market learning process into distinct phases, in which focal actors with market driving strategies operate as they proactively engage other market actors during different phases of the learning cycle.
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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.