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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Expansive learning"”.
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Expansive Learning in FYC: Using Linguistic Discourse Analysis to Measure the Effects of Threshold Concepts in Facilitating Generalization
… examines how and if threshold concepts enable expansive learning and generalization. Expansive learning and generalization are part of the highly contested conceptions of transfer, and these specific conceptions offer a more complex conception of transfer that deals with knowledge …
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Examining the mechanisms for variation in student outcomes from work placements : glimpsing expansive learning in a placement student change laboratory
The research in this thesis is an exploration of the experience of students on work placement as a part of their degree. Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and the Change Laboratory (CL) methodology it investigates the barriers to business students using taught theoretical structures …
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Change and Learning in Management Consulting Companies : An Activity Theory analysis of the consulting business in Finland
… research investigates the challenging changes, learning processes, and strategic adjustments made by consulting companies in Finland during the recent global economic crisis of 2009 onwards. In particular, this research aims to answer the following questions: a) What major changes have …
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Modeling Convergence Undercurrents in Brain Science via Statistics and Machine Learning
… but also awkwardly within researchers through expansive learning. Our models reveal three key findings: First, brain researchers tend to tackle subject areas beyond their core expertise, especially when these areas are epistemically close - a convergence shortcut. Second, this expansive …
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Toiminnan muutos ja ekspansiivisen oppimien mahdollisuus : tutkimus Verohallinnon monitilaympäristön käyttöönotosta
… in terms of the change of activity and as a learning opportunity. The hypothesis was that the transformation to a multi-space office may open expansive learning opportunities, if that change implicates and reflects the change of work more widely in the workplace and society. Prerequisite for …
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Investigating the contradictions in pre-service teachers' perceptions about the process of teaching and learning in South Africa's classrooms : an activity theory analysis
… perceptions about the process of teaching and learning? First, it investigates whether there are contradictions in pre-service teachers' perceptions and then examines what these contradictions are. It then analyses these contradictions to see whether there are patterns of contradictions across …
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Online studios and digital literacy skills among undergraduate students: An Activity Theory Perspective
… Historical Activity theory (CHAT) sociocultural learning theory of Vygotsky, its influence 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 …
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Technology Transfer through High Technology Corridors : A Study of Multi-agency Partnership Learning.
… multi-agency partnerships 'work in practice'. Expansive learning theory is an evocative heuristic device that has been used in recent studies of innovation in complex organisations. It is applied in this study of multi agency learning because it frames the relationships between individual and …
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All for one and one for all: building communities of practice during a secondary social studies student teaching experience
… model with regard to participants’ experiential learning, instructional practices, and collaborative relationships. Presenting findings in three distinct narratives of critical learning incidents, I then discuss the student teachers’ situational learning through the theoretical framework of …
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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
… change in the 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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The role of ICTs' in field supervision of undergraduate students at Makerere University: an activity theory system perspective
… to show that good supervisory practices lead to expansive learning. The study conducted over a two year period of eight weeks each, focussed on nine supervisors, students and administrators in the international programme (summer for the Western Countries) is organised by the College of Veterinary …
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English language instruction as ‘co-creation': a new CHAT model for integrating mobile technologies in advanced TEFL
… Activity Theory (CHAT) and its encompassing Expansive Learning theory of development. Using a participatory, formative approach to research-interventions, I describe a seven-week, ‘blended' adaptation of CHAT's Change Laboratory (CL) method. The CL chronicles language teachers', from a South …
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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
… of ubuntu, mirroring the Vygotskian essence, and expansive learning, which identifies the relevance of the social to the individual's learning, and occupational identity development. As a result, the analysis unriddles the material structures of skills development and labour practices that …
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Understanding English language teacher education in Chile : a cultural historical activity theory (chat) perspective
… and what the most effective conditions for this learning are (Diaz & Bastias, 2012). This thesis explores EFL teacher education in Chile in order to understand the nature of teacher learning in this specific context. The research uses a qualitative research approach to examine the varying …
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Oral corrective feedback in a blended learning environment: Challenges and contradictions faced by teachers in a Vietnamese university
… and practices about OCF provision in blended learning environments. This qualitative case study aims to occupy this gap. This study explores four issues: teachers’ beliefs about giving OCF; their practices; convergences and divergences between their beliefs and practices; and the key factors …