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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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Contrasting Perspectives and Performance of High School Students on Problem Solving in Real World, Situated, and School Contexts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and contrast theoretically and empirically problem solving of situated problems in school and the real world at the macro level as a social-cultural activity system and analyzes the process of solving situated problems by high school students at the micro level as an activity.
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Gender Diversity in Play With Physics: The Problem of Premises for Participation in Activities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the more general issues of inclusion and exclusion in communities of practices and argue that selection mechanisms in a group of students can be connected to their premises for engaging themselves in an activity.
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Learning In/Through Everyday Resistance: A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Community Resources and Curriculum
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore everyday resistance to highlight a particular set of enacted political actions and practices in which students, families, and communities participate to negotiate the demands of their politically charged contexts.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning: The Collaboration Principle in Multimedia Learning
TL;DR: In this chapter, research on the nature of the technology used, how the learning groups are comprised, the learning outcome engaged by the task, the role of the tutor, the effects of community-building activities, thenature of the learning or communication assessment, and the effect of scaffolds or discussion constraints on learning are reviewed.
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Taking race out of scare quotes: race‐conscious social analysis in an ostensibly post‐racial world
TL;DR: The authors argued that race is a social construct, and that the deconstruction of race and its claims to theoretical intelligibility has also left us buckling under the weight of scare quotes, prefixes, suffixes, qualifiers and euphemisms.
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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.