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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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Exploration of an e-learning model to foster critical thinking on basic science concepts during work placements
Bas A. de Leng,Diana H. J. M. Dolmans,Rijn Jöbsis,Arno M. M. Muijtjens,Cees P. M. van der Vleuten +4 more
TL;DR: The e-learning model was successful in establishing a dialogue among a group of students and an expert during work placements at different locations and the 'Practical Inquiry model' was useful in facilitating a sustained on-topic discourse involving critical thinking.
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Synchronous web-based collaborative writing: Factors mediating interaction among second-language writers
TL;DR: Examination of factors that mediated interaction among 3 Asian learners of English while they collaboratively wrote a summary using Google Docs and text-chat and GoogleDocs and voice-chat in the context of a debate club may help explain why collaborative performance varies and may provide insights into how web-based collaborative writing activities can be designed and facilitated in L2 classes.
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Intellectual capital: a Habermasian introduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a broadly social constructionist epistemology and a pluralist ontology to model the process of intellectual capital creation as a dynamic process of collective knowing that is capable of being leveraged into market value.
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Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice
Jean Lave,Ana Maria Rabelo Gomes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Lave explores teaching as learning and examines the reciprocal effects of theories of everyday life and learning, and demonstrates the changing character of Lave's own research practice over two decades.
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Blended learning: Investigating the influence of engagement in multiple learning delivery modes on students’ performance
TL;DR: The study results evince the effectiveness of multiple learning delivery modes on the learning development of students in higher education.
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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.