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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Engeström"”.
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The Language Learning Activity of Individual Learners Using Online Tasks
… activity theory (Vygotsky 1987; Leontiev 1978; Engeström 1987) was chosen as the most suitable theoretical framework and some of its key concepts, such as disturbances (Engeström and Sannino 2011; see also Montoro and Hampel 2011) and contradictions (Engeström 1987), were used to conduct a …
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Εντάσεις που προκύπτουν κατά τη συγγραφή σχολικών εγχειριδίων μαθηματικών στο πλαίσιο της συγγραφικής ομάδας
… επεισοδίων. Στο πλαίσιο της τρίτης γενιάς του Engeström της Θεωρίας της Δραστηριότητας, διακρίνονται τρία αλληλεπιδρώντα συστήματα δραστηριότητας: της συγγραφής, της διδασκαλίας και της έρευνας. Ορίσαμε τα συστήματα αυτά και στα αποτελέσματα ενσωματώνουμε την αντιστοίχιση των εντάσεων που …
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Online studios and digital literacy skills among undergraduate students: An Activity Theory Perspective
… on the three generations of activity that Engeström propounded, and the expansive learning model that Engeström developed. CHAT considered studio practices as a system of activities wherein collective work is undertaken by individual and group actors in pursuit of a common goal. Adopting an …
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A commerce of the old and new: how classroom teacher mentors work in multiple activities
… for ITE. A post-Vygotskyan Activity Theory (Engeström, 1987) and Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1995) were used to explore the rules and conceptual and language tools that those teachers seemed to be drawing on when they worked as mentors. The study concludes that, even though the …
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Provision for students with dyslexia in EFL: an ethnographic case study
… approach to learning, I apply activity theory (Engeström 2001) to understand and analyse the contradictions that inhibit the implementation of provision for students with dyslexia. This is an ethnographic case study involving audio recorded observations and interviews with two head teachers, …
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Oral corrective feedback in a blended learning environment: Challenges and contradictions faced by teachers in a Vietnamese university
… of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (Engeström, 1987). Findings indicated the teachers did not fully apply van Lier’s (1996) six principles of successful scaffolding; therefore, impeding the students’ learning. In addition, findings revealed different levels of contradictions …
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The negotiation of teaching presence in international online contexts
… 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 drawing on data from …
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The Impact of 1:1 Technology Initiatives on New Literacy in the Secondary ELAR Classroom: A Metasynthesis
… and cultural-historical activity theory (Engeström, 2014), the researcher of this study formed three research questions regarding the emergent research trends on 1:1 technology initiatives in the secondary ELAR classroom and new literacy. In response, a meta-synthesis of relevant studies …
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Reassembling Writing Technologies: Historical and Situated Studies of Rhetorical Activity
… of mediated activity (Vygotsky, Wertsch, Engeström, Nardi), it uses historical and contemporary scenes to propose that the coordination of mediating technologies constitutes important rhetorical work. Breakdowns in literate practices lead to the opening of what Latour has called black …
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A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education
… men need help with navigating double binds (Engeström, 2009; Russell, 1997) experienced between home and school and benefit from stretch, skill, drill, practice, play, and reflect approaches to build writing proficiency. Participants desired more authentic writing opportunities in school …
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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
… in a Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT, Engeström,1987) framework. The key findings include a new understanding of how maker-learning occurs through social interaction, scaffolded support from academics and professional staff, individual cultural interests and embodied curiosity (Radman, …
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Becoming a different person in the zone of proximal development : a case study of sixth form students making career and HE choices
… HE system from within via expansive learning (Engeström, 2001). The work highlights a role for Careers Advisers in promoting individual agency, and in fostering a culture of participation in career guidance.
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Being a Professional Lecturer: Framing Professional Learning within and beyond an initial accredited programme in Teaching and Learning in an Irish Institute of Technology
… in relation to teaching. Activity theory (Engeström, 2001) was used as the theoretical framework to inform and explore understandings and accounts of professional learning. It is a socio-cultural research design with philosophical underpinnings. An institutional case study was carried out …
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"We just learned from each other": ESOL pre-service teachers learning to use digital tools across coursework and student teaching
… the lens of cultural-historical activity theory (Engeström, 2001; Yamagata-Lynch, 2010) to examine how PSTs navigated dynamic, interacting activity systems. I also drew on polyfocality to conceptualize learners’ attention on multiple physical and virtual resources during interactions. Findings …
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Terveyskeskushenkilöstön sisäiset mallit verenpainetaudin ja diabeteksen hoidossa
… onnistumisen kannalta. Keskeisiä lähteitä olivat Engeström (1999), Launis (1994), Mikkonen ja Keskinen (1980) sekä Cantor ja Kihlström (1987).
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An Examination of Professional Identity Through Working at and Across Boundaries of Communities of Practice in Relation to Children with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD) using Activity Theory as a Tool for Reflection
… framework to understand situated learning where Engeström (2001) states that individual knowledge and meaning is developed by those within a community of practice, have shared interests, but are also influenced by ‘rules’ and ‘division of labour’. This Portfolio and critical review applies a …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… lenses of cultural historical activity theory (Engeström, 1999), cognitive praxis (Eyerman and Jamison, 1991), and cultural identity theory (Hall, 1996). I employ critical ethnographic case study methodology to explore issues of power, social reproduction, and equity. I conducted 53 days of …
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What’s the Use of Research? How Teachers Use Research To Plan for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
… 2003; Vygotsky, 1978) of activity theory (Engeström, 1999). This helps me predict that research use is defined by the interaction between teachers (and their working knowledge), tools (including research), and other contextual elements (e.g. school community, etc.). But the practices of …
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The effect of interactive technology on informal learning and performance in a social setting
… from the activity theory model developed by Engeström (1987) and related research enabled by an ongoing review of the literature. Two new research frameworks have been developed and presented in the analysis and discussion chapters, respectively, of this study: 1.) A three-stage framework for …
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Cultural-historical investigations into the dialectics of skills development implementation and occupational identity in the informal construction Small and Micro Enterprise workplace
… leading Activity Theory scholars such as Yrjö Engeström and Annalisa Sannino, focus the analysis of workers' struggles. The research illustrates how skills development practices in South Africa fail to address the critical needs of informal workers and the unemployed work-seekers. In …
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