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Making the invisible visible: a place for utilizing activity theory within in situ simulation to drive healthcare organizational development?

open access: yesAdvances in Simulation, 2020
Background The healthcare needs of our societies are continual changing and evolving. In order to meet these needs, healthcare provision has to be dynamic and reactive to provide the highest standards of safe care. Therefore, there is a continual need to
Gerard J. Gormley   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Editorial by Keiko ...
Yasukawa, Keiko
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The revision of baphetids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: Morphology, ontogeny, palaeoecology, and the reassessment of the phylogeny of Baphetoidea

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The baphetoids represent a clade of the Carboniferous stem‐tetrapods (Middle Mississippian—Middle Pennsylvanian) with a characteristic extension of the orbits into antorbital vacuities, which formed keyhole‐shaped openings on the skull. The more derived baphetids were crocodile‐like piscivores frequently occurring in coal‐bearing lacustrine ...
Pavel Barták, Martin Ivanov, Boris Ekrt
wiley   +1 more source

The cultural shaping of compassion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this chapter, we first review the existing literature on cross-cultural studies on compassion. While cultural similarities exist, we demonstrate cultural differences in the conception, experience, and expression of compassion.
Koopmann-Holm, Birgit, Tsai, Jeanne L.
core   +2 more sources

Psychological Impact of Autism Screening on Caregivers

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism screening in childhood is common, yet little is known about its potential psychological impact on caregivers. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent national panel of disease prevention experts, stated that this gap in knowledge limited their ability to endorse universal autism screening.
Ramkumar Aishworiya   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developmental Effects of Davydov’s Mathematics Curriculum in Relation to School Readiness Level and Teacher Experience

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Davydov’s mathematics curriculum was designed according to the principles of the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). In this study, we analyzed some developmental effects of its realization in Grade 1 (N = 46, two classes), in relation to the ...
Anastasia Sidneva
doaj   +1 more source

Design smart city apps using activity theory. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we describe an innovative approach to the design process of Smart City interventions. We tested it with participants enrolled in the Master\u2019s Degree program in \u201cInnovators in enterprise and public administration\u201d: the ...
Ferranti, C., Petrucco, C.
core   +1 more source

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preservice teacher's greater power to act in the classroom: analysis of the circumstances for professional development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
International audienceThis case study analysed the circumstances during a one-year work placement in which a pre-service teacher showed professional development, with a focus on the impact of her interactions with various interlocutors.
Flavier, Eric   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Prince Charming has Perfect White Teeth: Performativity and Media Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper argues that Judith Butler’s post structuralist theory of performativity provides a valuable tool for understanding how students might contest prevailing hegemonic gender discourses in media education classrooms.
Dezuanni, Michael
core   +2 more sources

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