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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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Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
TL;DR: A case is made for the use of multiple theoretical perspectives—theory on boundary objects, epistemic objects, cultural historical activity theory, and objects as infrastructure—to understand the role of objects in cross-disciplinary collaboration and develops a novel analytical framework that organizes objects according to the active work they perform.
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Making Sense with Institutions: Context, Thought and Action in Karl Weick’s Theory
Klaus Weber,Mary Ann Glynn +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the role of larger social and historical contexts in sensemaking has been overlooked and propose three specific mechanisms, namely priming, editing and triggering, to bring institutional context into processes of sensemaking.
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What is agency? Conceptualizing professional agency at work
TL;DR: The concept of agency has become widely used in learning research, especially in studies addressing professional and workplace learning, but also in policy discussion on how to promote individually meaningful careers and life-courses amid rapid changes in working life as discussed by the authors.
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Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning
TL;DR: The authors describes how social identification and academic learning can deeply depend on each other, both through a theoretical account of the two processes and a detailed empirical analysis of how students' identities emerge and how students learn curriculum over a year in one classroom.
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Learning analytics should not promote one size fits all: The effects of instructional conditions in predicting academic success
TL;DR: The results suggest that it is imperative for learning analytics research to account for the diverse ways technology is adopted and applied in course-specific contexts, and require consideration before the log-data can be merged to create a generalized model for predicting academic success.
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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.