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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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Collaborative virtual environments for supporting learning communities: an experience of use
TL;DR: This study looks at how students evaluate CVE in educational settings and investigates the importance of different factors on social awareness.
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An overview of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) use in classroom research 2000 to 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the use of activity theory in education and specifically to qualitative studies of kindergarten to twelfth grade (K-12) during the last decade.
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User appropriation of mobile technologies: Motives, conditions and design properties
TL;DR: The analysis explains the flexibility of mobile computing as a direct function of the appropriation process, suggesting that mobile computing is a function of use for serving both organizationally-sanctioned and personal motives.
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Understanding EFL students’ participation in group peer feedback of L2 writing: A case study from an activity theory perspective
Shulin Yu,Icy Lee +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated two Chinese university students' motives for participating in group peer feedback activities in the EFL (English as a foreign language) writing classroom and found that student motives could have direct influence on students' participation in group feedback activities and their subse...
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Appropriation, Mastery and Resistance to Technology in Early Childhood Preservice Teacher Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how early childhood preservice teachers appropriate, master, and resist learning to use technology in teaching and suggest that the pathway to appropriation of technology as a teacher is not uni-dimensional and has a varying set of contributors and constraints.
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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.