Adopting a Grounded Theory Approach to Cultural-Historical Research: Conflicting Methodologies or Complementary Methods? [PDF]
Grounded theory has long been regarded as a valuable way to conduct social and educational research. However, recent constructivist and postmodern insights are challenging long-standing assumptions, most notably by suggesting that grounded theory can be ...
Seaman, Jayson O.
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The Lively Character of the Continuous Work
The paper focuses on some issues concerning the future perspectives of cultural-historical theory development in the context of general methodological problems.
Veresov N.N.
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Taking things into account: learning as kinaesthetically-mediated collaboration [PDF]
This paper presents research on participant learning processes in challenge course workshops using the framework known as Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT).
Seaman, Jayson O.
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An Interpretation of the Continuous Adaptation of the Self/Environment Process [PDF]
Insights into the nondual relationship of organism and environment and their processual nature have resulted in numerous efforts at understanding human behavior and motivation from a holistic and contextual perspective. Meadian social
Francovich, Chris
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Falling through the (cultural) gaps? [PDF]
In this paper we report findings of a study of online participation by culturally diverse participants in a distance adult education course offered in Canada, and examine two of the study’s early findings.
Chase, Mackie +5 more
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Struggling readers? Using theory to complicate understandings of what it means to be literate in school [PDF]
Theories guide many aspects of literacy research. In this article we describe four theoretical approaches that we have used in qualitative research with students who are perceived to struggle with reading in school, including: New Literacy Studies ...
Brooks, Maneka Deanna +3 more
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Thinking relationally: Disability, families and cultural-historical activity theory
It is commonly expressed by parents of disabled children within the Nordic region that there is a mismatch between the official aims of the welfare state and the services provided.
Jóna G. Ingólfsdóttir +3 more
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Сultural-Historical Theory for Analyze Educational Inequality: Potential, Barriers, Prospects
The cultural-historical theory, which is basic for Soviet and post-Soviet Russian psychological science, is based on the idea of "specifically human" higher mental functions. The key concepts for the theory of "social situation of development",
S.G. Kosaretsky
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Just as Quare as They Want to Be: A Review of the Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference [PDF]
The latter part of the 20th century has seen the emergence of radical black lesbian feminists and gay men who have begun to address the forces within black culture and the culture at large that have rendered their experiences and sensibilities silent ...
Woodard, Vincent
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CHAT framework to study affordances in CALL environments
This paper proposes to explore the theory of affordances in the light of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to study affordances in complex Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environments.
Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau
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