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Reading Activity, Consciousness, Personality dialectically: Cultural-historical activity theory and the centrality of society

open access: yes, 2014
Whereas cultural-historical activity theory has proven to be fruitful, providing a framework to those scholars interested in understanding human knowing and learning from a more holistic perspective, essential aspects of the original theory either have ...
Roth, Michael
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Microbiome−host proteostasis crosstalk—An emerging perspective on mechanisms and interventions toward healthy longevity

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Proteostasis and the gut microbiota play a key role in shaping host physiology. Microbiota‐derived metabolites, vitamins, and RNA modulate host proteostasis. Findings from model systems, including C. elegans, indicate microbes can either stabilize or disrupt host proteostasis.
Abhishek Anil Dubey, Maria Ermolaeva
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Tools and Instructional Rules: A study of how digital technologies become rooted in classroom procedures

open access: yesOutlines, 2008
This paper examines how a classroom culture developsadvanced strategies and procedures for handling complexdigital tools. We report from a vocational Mediaand Communication course at an Upper SecondarySchool in Oslo, Norway.
Thomas de Lange, Andreas Lund
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workplace development and learning in elder care – the importance of a fertile soil and the trouble of project implementation

open access: yesOutlines, 2004
Workplace learning and competence development in work are frequently used concepts. A wide spread notion is that societal, institutional, and organizational changes require the development of knowledge, methods and strategies for learning at workplaces ...
Kristina Westerberg
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Current Situation and Future Development of Activity Theory in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The cultural-historical activity theory was developed by the Russian psychologist Vygotsky and his colleagues in the 1920s and 1930s. Since then, it has been expanded globally and rapidly, particularly during the past 15 years.
Cheng, Lehua   +5 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting activity theory within the Internet of Things

open access: yes, 2013
With the emergence of the Internet of Things, interactions between humans and machines and indeed amongst machines themselves can be better understood using Leontiev's activity theory.
Wilde, Adriana, Zaluska, Ed
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Situating partnership activity, an activity theory inspired analysis of school to school inquiry networks

open access: yesCogent Education, 2019
The issue of how schools work in partnership with each other and with other organisations has always been of interest to school leaders, policymakers, and practitioners.
Andrew Townsend
doaj   +1 more source

Human Agency and Educational Research: A New Problem in Activity Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper, I address the reconceptualization of human agency that can shift to an analysis of both distributed and multiple agency in networked learning activities.
2224, 50243283, Yamazumi, Katsuhiro
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