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Unit of analysis from an ecological perspective: Beyond the individual/social dichotomy
Publication date: Available online 1 August 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Alfredo Jornet, Crina DamşaAbstractUnit of analysis is a methodological staple in the constitution of any learning theory, determining how different frameworks lead to different kinds of empirical observation. In this regard, emerging ecological—sociocultural and situative—approaches have been distinguished from more classical frameworks in that their units of analysis are said to expand beyond the individual to include their social contexts or environments. However, elaborations on unit of analysis are scarce an...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Maya children's medicinal plant knowledge: Initiative and agency in their learning process
This study builds on the paradigm of Learning by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI) to explore how Yucatec Maya children (ages 7 to 12) describe and understand their learning process, illustrated by how they learn about medicinal plants. Using semi-structured interviews, children identified the use of 16 medicinal plants used to cure common illnesses in their community, including skin, respiratory, or digestive problems. Children's most prevalent learning approaches in our sample were observing adults using medicinal plants, listening to related conversations during preparation, asking clarifying questions, and collecting me...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Yes, you can”: Conversational assessment in the classroom and its role in the management of institutional and social goals
This study thus demonstrates this dynamic aspect of assessment sequences and their potential to reveal group affiliation in certain cases. The article first discusses assessments deployed by the instructor, typical classroom sequences that offer a venue for public evaluation of student activity. Analysis then turns to examples of assessments made by students, which can invite second assessments that result in a multi-party interaction that, in turn, builds group affiliation. After analysis of these sequences, implications for learning are discussed. (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The reciprocal development of the object of common space and the emergence of the collective agency in residents' workshops
In this study we provide an overview of the reciprocal development of residents' collective agency and the object of ‘space’. Our findings call attention to 1) the significance of the joint object in coordinating the fragmented needs of the residents, 2) new participatory practices which enable the long process of transitions in the formation of the joint object, and 3) guidance and support that allowed the residents' local place-based knowledge to emerge and promote their participation. (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Editorial: Writing across: Tracing transliteracies as becoming across time, space, and settings
Publication date: Available online 15 July 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Paul Prior, Anna SmithAbstractThis editorial introducing the special issue, “Writing across: Tracing transliteracies as becoming across time, space, and settings,” argues that research and theories on writing have too often focused on writing in, whether writing in particular physical locations (writing in a classroom, in a workplace) or writing in more metaphorical or virtual spaces (writing in a discipline, in an online community). The articles in this special issue focus on theory, methods, and cases of writing ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Mediated Development and the internalization of psychological tools in second language (L2) education
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Matthew E. Poehner, Paolo InfanteAbstractA relatively recent and important line of research in the second language (L2) follows Vygotsky's analysis of scientific concepts and attempts to reorganize language curricula according to linguistic concepts that learners might employ to regulate their L2 use. The present research extends this work by integrating it with the pedagogical proposals of Reuven Feuerstein. We propose a framework, Mediated Development (MD-L2), that emphasizes mediation through concepts but that offers a ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Publisher Note
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effects of blended and video-based coaching approaches on preservice teachers' self-efficacy and perceived competence support
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Kira Elena Weber, Christopher Neil Prilop, Marc Kleinknecht (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parental perception and English Learners' mobile-assisted language learning: An ethnographic case study from a technology-based Funds of Knowledge approach
This study extends the current MALL horizon from the front line of specific student-centered learning experiences to further examine the facilitating factors and barriers that hide within a multicultural learning environment. (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What are children being taught in the mosque? Turkish mosque education in the Netherlands
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Semiha Sözeri, Hülya Kosar AltinyelkenAbstractMosque education in Western countries has been a source of anxiety and speculations in the public debates about youth radicalization and the teaching practices of foreign imams. This research aims to contribute to this understudied field by presenting findings on the organization, objective of provision, learning goals, and curriculum content of mosque education provided by the largest Turkish Islamic communities in the Netherlands: Diyanet, Milli Görüş, and Süleymanlıs....
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Conceptualising and researching interest/s as a learning phenomenon in contexts representing the fullness of human life
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Helen Hedges, Maria Birbili (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Approaching writing and learning as interdependent processes
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Åsa Mäkitalo (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dual-eye-tracking Vygotsky: A microgenetic account of a teaching/learning collaboration in an embodied-interaction technological tutorial for mathematics
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Anna Shvarts, Dor AbrahamsonAbstractVygotsky conceptualized the teaching/learning process as inherently collaborative. We extend prior evaluations of this claim by enlisting eye-tacking instruments to monitor the perceptual activity of four teacher–student dyads, as the student solves a challenging manipulation problem designed to ground the scientific notion of parabolas in their new sensorimotor routines. Analyzing each dyad’s gaze paths led us to model the teaching/learning process as the emergence and dynamic trans...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

I want to appear like a virtuous teacher: Carnivalesque reflection as an examination of practice
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Suzanne L. PorathAbstractThis nine-month interpretive case study focused on the use of collaborative reflection meetings to support two third-grade teachers during their transition from a traditional, acquisition model of literacy curriculum to a workshop model. The changes in the teachers' pedagogical and philosophical approaches to teaching and learning that needed to accompany the shift were significant. Drawing from Bakhtin's concept of a carnival sense of the world, the collaborative reflection meetings acted as a car...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Diving into Yeshiva's talk practices: Chavruta argumentation between individual and community towards crystallizing methods
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Baruch B. Schwarz, Zvi Bekerman, Reuven Ben-HaimAbstractThe present study offers a systematic analysis of the evolution of talk practices of ultraorthodox Jews learning in dyads called Chavruta. We investigate whether and how these practices contribute to the maintenance of traditional legal discourses and or move in a transformative direction. We answer this question by observing two learners in a Chavruta setting in consecutive sessions. We show that the Chavruta learners are constantly seeking for finding methods of the...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - June 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research