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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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Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning
Paul Resta,Thérèse Laferrière +1 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed the research conducted in the last 20 years on the application of technology in support of collaborative learning in higher education, focusing primarily on studies that use Internet-based technologies and social interaction analysis.
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Interprofessional education: a review of context, learning and the research agenda.
TL;DR: In terms of constructive alignment from an education viewpoint, there is a need for educators to define learning outcomes and match these with learning activities to ensure that IPE demonstrates added value over uniprofessional learning as mentioned in this paper.
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Why hasn't technology disrupted academics' teaching practices? Understanding resistance to change through the lens of activity theory
Françoise Blin,Morag Munro +1 more
TL;DR: A preliminary analysis of the transformation of teaching practices, which did or did not take place in this university following the institution-wide deployment of a VLE, and factors limiting a full uptake of the VLE more advanced functionalities by the wider university community are explored.
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Expansive Visibilization of Work: AnActivity-Theoretical Perspective
TL;DR: It is concluded that expansive visibilization, driven by contradictions and seeking to reconceptualize the object and motive of work, is not a straightforward process which can be neatly controlled from above.
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Literacy and Learning Out of School: A Review of Theory and Research
Glynda Hull,Katherine Schultz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed research on literacy in out-of-school settings and identified the conceptual advances in theories of literacy that have arisen from non-school-based research and traced their evolution.
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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.