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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Activity System"”.
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The role of motivation within an activity system for adults learning English as a second language
This project attempts to conceptualize the relationship between the language learner and the social world, developing a comprehensive theory of identity that integrates the language learner and the language learning context, while trying to keep motivation high.
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The role of motivation within an activity system for adults learning English as a second language
This project attempts to conceptualize the relationship between the language learner and the social world, developing a comprehensive theory of identity that integrates the language learner and the language learning context, while trying to keep motivation high.
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At the Corner of Policy and People: Engaging with the Transnational Activity System of Women’s Rights in Germany and Senegal
… and participant observation) and generic activity system analysis to explore transnational women’s advocacy in two countries (Germany and Senegal). By interviewing the individuals who conduct this work on a daily basis, this study will illuminate how women mediate discursive policy and …
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Modelling sustainable ecotourism development on the Coromandel Peninsula in Aotearoa / New Zealand; a holistic systems approach based on the idea of chaos and complexity in a human-activity system
… perspective by designing a conceptual system model. The field work consists of an empirical inquiry placed in the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand/Aotearoa. By employing a regional case study to test the hypotheses of the thesis, the research attains an insight in the …
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A study of postgraduate students in an Astrophysics bridging year: identifying contradictions in a complex system
… institutions to UCT. The Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework and its principle of contradictions and multivoiceness are employed to describe the NASSP as an activity system. According to the CHAT framework an activity system may experience four types of contradictions: …
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Digitalisation and Business Model Innovation: Exploring the Microfoundations of Dynamic Consistency
… these activities with the firm’s organisational systems and the resource and competence base. Adopting the view of a BMI (business model innovation) as a system of interdependent activities, the continuous alignment of activities across the BMI is called dynamic consistency. However, it is not …
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Digital literacy practices of engineering students and lecturers using e- textbooks at a university of technology in South Africa
… This study draws upon Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Mediated Discourse Analysis (MDA) to understand the socio-cultural and historical factors influencing e-textbook engagement, interaction order, and the usage of affordances of etextbooks. The study identified four distinct …
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Understanding Contradictions in Times of Change: A CHAT Analysis in an Art Museum
… museum through the lens of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), specifically as it relates to the education department. By employing a multi-level look at the contradictions that lie beneath the activity system, this research demonstrates how tensions in the system can aggravate those …
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Playing for the future: the role of gameplay, narrative and fun in computer games-based training
… fun and gameplay in a games-based learning activity system. The study utilised a Design Based Research methodology, within an Activity Theoretical framework.
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University tutors’ beliefs about and practices in assessing undergraduates’ writing - A New Zealand case study
… of cognition, distributed cognition, and an activity theory approach. Data were collected chronologically across an academic year by five methods: preliminary survey for bio-data of participants and their general attitudes to giving feedback across the faculty, individual interviews for …
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Exploring the current trends in curriculum design of entrepreneur education programmes through three case studies, in Cape Town, South Africa
… achieved by the learners (entrepreneurs). Activity Theory and Bernstein's Models of Pedagogy provide analytical frameworks for the study. Data was gathered from three semi-structured interviews carried out with the principal curriculum designer within each organisation, as well as written …
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Exploring Engineering Faculty Members' Experiences with University Commercialization Utilizing Systems Thinking
… at three land-grant universities, using Activity Theory as an analytical framework. Each case consists of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 5-6 engineering faculty members, 1-2 university administrators, and a technology transfer officer, as well as university commercialization …
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An activity systems view of learning programming skills in a virtual lab: A case of University of Jos, Nigeria
… use of virtual lab on Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) could enhance students' acquisition of Java programming skills. The virtual lab provides a lab environment for students to practice programming and experiment concepts learned. Activity Theory was used as a theoretical framework to …
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A Quest to Prepare All English Language Teachers for Diverse Teaching Settings: If Not Us, Who? If Not Now, When?
… perspectives and more specifically utilizes Activity Theory as an analytical organizing framework to examine the complex interrelations among the participants, and to identify existing institutionalized tensions and contradictions among systemic components in the activity system under …
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Bridging the academic-vocational divide in undergraduate construction and surveying courses: tensions and implications
… the process in binary terms. Cultural-historical activity theory is used to examine the process as an activity system and to identify the complex inter-relationships between the various factors. The research findings are based on interviews with senior academic staff at seven English universities …
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A sociocultural approach to the study of an ICT curriculum for at-risk students in Singapore
… up due to the context in which ICT is situated. Activity theory and the related sociocultural approach to understand human nature and cognition has been the conceptual framework for this study. It examines the classroom practices by locating it within a broader activity system that takes into …
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The Implementation of STEAM Curriculum and the Manifestation of Arts in STEAM Curriculum in a Public Primary School in Mainland China: A Case Study
… social factors contribute to these processes. Activity theory is adopted as a theoretical framework to guide this study. It views the implementation of the STEAM curriculum in Chinese primary schools as an activity system to explore the interactions and tensions between the system components: …
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The negotiation of teaching presence in international online contexts
… viewed through the lens of cultural historical activity theory (Engeström, 1999, 2001). In this view, instructors are engaged in a dynamic process in which teaching presence is shaped through the mediating components of the activity system. This multi-case study employed cross case analysis …
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Practice in a dispersed professional community : a case study of associate lecturers at the Open University
… a more important role than co-workers. Using activity system theory, network theory and power relationships, the research comes to a deeper and more integrated picture of associate lecturers. It concludes with postulations on how individual agency is an important aspect of practice in such a …
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Operational upgrades to improve traffic flow in Small Middleweight Cities: Windhoek, Namibia
… in the allocation of funds to develop transport systems, transport authorities resort to innovative methods of improving transport network utilising minimal capital expenditure. The limited funding is prevalent in small middleweight cities due to the current lack of major traffic impediment. The …
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