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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)"”.
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Understanding English language teacher education in Chile : a cultural historical activity theory (chat) perspective
… education program? The study was framed by a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) perspective. CHAT's explanatory potential proved useful in understanding pre-service teachers' engagement in the activity of learning to teach EFL, and the interrelated factors that shaped this learning. …
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Grade 6 Mathematics Teachers Perceptions Of Pedagogical Variation With Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) In No-Fee Paying Schools: A Cultural Historical Activity Theory (Chat) Analysis
… with the use ICTs in the classrooms utilising Cultural Historical Activity Theory. This research utilises interviews as a method for the collection of empirical data to describe a group of research participants’ (or teachers’) perceptions who happen to be directly interviewed. These interviews …
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Understanding Contradictions in Times of Change: A CHAT Analysis in an Art Museum
… change at an art 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 …
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Exploring the challenges of managing blended learning courses in selected Irish higher education institutes : An activity theory study.
… Taking a case study approach and utilising Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), more specifically Engeström’s (2015) activity systems model (ASM), the research seeks to highlight the challenges by identifying contradictions in the activity systems for developing and delivering blended …
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The processes and outcomes of implementing peer mediation services in schools: a cultural-historical activity theory approach
… an analysis, the thesis argues the utility of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). This argument is based on the need for a theoretical approach that conceptualises processes of social and individual transformation, including the structure of the social world and the creation of new …
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Exploring translingual assessment for learning in multilingual grade 10 afrikaans home language classes
… case study that is underpinned by the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). This case study draws on Sen’s capability approach (CA), which advocates that a person can expand capabilities and achieve if the relevant resources are provided. Purposive sampling was employed to select …
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An Investigation of How Accountability Systems Influence the Design and Development of Student Centered Learning Environments
… (SCLEs) in this study is framed theoretically by cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). The investigation itself occurred within a specific practice context: an urban charter school serving elementary-aged children. The efforts to design and develop SCLEs in the school focused on the use of …
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THE IMPACT OF MINDSETS ON LITERACY TEACHING IN HOMESCHOOLING ENVIRONMENTS: A CHAT ANALYSIS
… are mediators of, and mediated by, the activity of literacy teaching and learning in homeschooling environments. I reached over a hundred homeschooling parents through network sampling and a hundred parents submitted a survey designed to place them in one of four quadrants on a grid, …
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Cooperative schools: Learning to be cooperative in a changing educational landscape
… generate data and Engeström’s Second Generation Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was used to explore the interconnectivity of a cooperative school and to identify tensions or contradictions which exist. Tensions around performativity and power inequality mean that opportunities also …
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All for one and one for all: building communities of practice during a secondary social studies student teaching experience
… learning through the theoretical framework of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and expansive learning. I conclude with an evaluation of learning outcomes influenced by the design and limitations that warrant additional research and possible future iterations of the model.
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A cultural-historical activity theory based analysis of lecturer and student understanding of learning in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town
Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) provides a framework for analysing activity systems. I use that framework to investigate teaching and learning in two first-year university mathematics courses at the University of Cape Town. The focus of this investigation is whether the different …
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Corporal punishment: cultural-historical and socio-cultural practices of teachers in a South African primary school
… that teachers, particularly those who have been culturally exposed to corporal punishment and other forms of violence, believe that corporal punishment is still an effective mode of disciplining children. Drawing on Vygotsky's cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), this study seeks to …
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Secondary school perceptions of eContent design: an activity theory perspective
… perception is also a product of the socio-cultural environments hence how learners perceive eContent, might be affected by the setting within which it is designed. In this study, a group of Cameroonian learners‟ use of eContent that was designed in a social- cultural context different from …
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Figuring It Out On their Own: How Rural Adult Online Students Negotiate Barriers to Learning Online
… adults negotiate barriers to learning online. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) guided the study. A series of interviews was conducted with nine participants, exploring their rural communities, their educational histories, and their experiences as online students. Five main themes, …
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In Transition: An Activity Theoretical Analysis Examining Electronic Portfolio Tools' Mediation Of The Preservice Teacher's Authoring Experience
… Wetzel & Strudler, 2005b). There is a paucity of theory-driven, systematic, rigorous research on electronic portfolios and a need for in-depth, context-aware research on such initiatives. Purpose: To explicate the differential impact of different portfolios systems on preservice teachers. The …
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Exploring service development to scaffold cross-disciplinary critical maker-learning in a higher education academic library makerspace : a case study through the lens of cultural-historical activity theory
… occurring in lessons, training, and free activity in the makerspace. Critical understanding was achieved through an engagement with key educational concepts relevant to maker-learning (e.g., ZPD: Zone of Proximal Development, Vygotsky, 1978) in a Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT, …
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Missed opportunities: a cultural-historical activity theory study of the use of authentic literature as a tool for dialogic pedagogy
… school in Cape Town, South Africa. Using a Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework and the Cam-UNAM scheme for educational dialogue analysis (Hennessy et al., 2020), the teachers' objects and actions were analysed to uncover the reasons why dialogic opportunities might be …
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An activity theory analysis of how management of a private higher education institution interpret and engage with re-accreditation
… South Africa, and specifically on accreditation. Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) was considered the most effective lens to interpret the findings of this study, as research indicates that it is for teasing out the historical and cultural contradictions within as well as between people, …
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Access, barriers and successes of educational pathways for out-of-school youth. applying the capability theory
… between the Capability Approach (CA) and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) among youth at a post-school educational institution. The research investigated whether such provision enabled young people to access opportunities in South Africa’s post-school education and training …
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Changing perceptions of ICT at KS3 : a critical investigation using activity theory.
… environment of curriculum change in Wales. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was used as an analytical framework within this study. The use of this tool has enabled different dimensions within the case studies to be recognised and discussed. The use of the activity settings over …
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