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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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Trialogical Approach for Knowledge Creation

TL;DR: In this chapter, the main characteristics of the trialogical approach to learning are described, emphasizing guidelines for collaborative work with knowledge artifacts and practices, and the focus is on developing shared objects.
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Data model development for fire related extreme events: an activity theory approach

TL;DR: This paper adopts a third-generation activity theory guided approach to develop a data model that can be used in the response to fire-related extreme events and prescribes the core data standards to reduce information interoperability barriers.
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Articulating User Needs in Collaborative Design: Towards an Activity-Theoretical Approach

TL;DR: This paper analyses the collaborative design of a high-technology product, a neuromagnetometer used in the analysis of the activity of the human cortex, and suggests that the emerging user needs of collectiveactors must be analyzed at three levels.
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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.