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This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.The emergence of children's interest orientations during early childhood: When predisposition meets opportunity
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Carin L. Neitzel, Joyce M. Alexander, Kathy E. JohnsonAbstractThere is growing evidence that even prior to school, young children are capable of exhibiting enduring, persistent interests. Such interests have potential consequences for the child's learning and behavior in school, peer interactions, and later patterns of achievement. We investigated the relations among young children's early interests, personal characteristics, and home environments to examine distinctive predictive profiles among young children with ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - February 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development
Publication date: Available online 29 January 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Anna Smith, Paul PriorAbstractExamining two longitudinal cases of writing development, we argue for a Flat CHAT (cultural-historical activity theory) perspective on transliteracies development that focuses attention on laminated assemblage—how times, spaces, artifacts, and people converge in complex and unfolding trajectories of becoming. The first case focuses on Nora, a post-doctorate biologist working on the behavioral neuroendocrinology of birds' sociality. Based on life-history and text-based interviews, obse...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - January 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Teacher-student interaction on wikis: Fostering collaborative learning and writing
This study contributes to the emerging literature on the role of teachers in supporting collaborative learning during wiki activities by examining teacher and student online interaction during wiki-mediated collaborative writing activities in three Kuwaiti high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes. Teacher and student discussion posts and text edits during the eight-week projects were analysed using a discourse analysis framework and triangulated with data from semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed that the approaches adopted by the teachers in this study ranged from directive to dialogic. Where t...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Vocational knowing in subject integrated teaching: A case study in a Swedish upper secondary health and social care program
Publication date: June 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 21Author(s): Maria ChristidisAbstractThe aim of this case study was to investigate what vocational knowing was made available in subject-integrated teaching of four vocational subjects in a Swedish Health and Social Care Program (HSCP). The study was composed of two separate data collections, both ethnographic. The first data collection was performed in autumn 2012 on a theme unit called VIPS, with a group of students (16+), in a Swedish HSCP. Data comprised observations, field notes, and audio recordings of planning and teaching of the the...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How do Moroccan-Dutch parents (re)construct their parenting practices? Post-migration parenthood as a social site for learning and identity
Publication date: June 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 21Author(s): Spark L. van Beurden, Mariëtte de HaanAbstractIn this paper we investigate how mothers and fathers living in culturally heterogeneous contexts learn about the practice of parenting. By applying a communities of practice perspective (Wenger, 1998; 2010) on the (re)construction of parenting practice postmigration, this study highlights the under-examined processes of social negotiation over meaning making and identity formation underlying cultural transformations within the family context. Using a discourse analytical approach e...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - January 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Triggering and maintaining interest in early phases of interest development
This article reports on the complexities of triggering and maintaining interest, a process that is initiated when something catches the attention of a learner. Triggering interest (the initiation of the psychological state of interest) can occur in both earlier and later phases of interest development. However, in this study we focus on this process in earlier phases of interest development. Findings from a study of the activity of eight, Black, inner-city, middle school-age participants in an out-of-school biology workshop are described. We address the identification and generalizability of potential triggers for interest...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Affective atmospheres and skatepark sessions: The spatiotemporal contours of interest
Publication date: Available online 22 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Ty Hollett, Robert Hein (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Theorising young children's interests: making connections and in-the-moment happenings
Publication date: Available online 12 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Liz ChesworthAbstractGlobal perspectives of early childhood education are increasingly mediated by an instrumental discourse associated with standardised notions of knowledge acquisition. However, an alternative discourse for early childhood emphasises the importance of learning experiences that are responsive to the diverse interests that children enact in their play. In this article I argue that instrumentalism reproduces binary conceptualisations of knowledge through which curriculum content privileges universal...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Patterns of dialogic teaching in kindergarten classrooms of Finland and the United Arab Emirates
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Heli Muhonen, Eija Pakarinen, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, Lydia Barza, Antje von SuchodoletzAbstractThe present study explored patterns of dialogic teaching in kindergarten classrooms across two countries with different educational systems and cultural backgrounds: Finland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In each country, transcripts of thirteen learning sessions were analyzed by identifying episodes of educational dialogue and categorizing them with regard to previously identified patterns of dialogic teaching. R...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Health literacy as knowledge construction: Learning about health by expanding objects and crossing boundaries in networked activities
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Zoe Nikolaidou, Theres BellanderAbstractIn this paper we examine health literacy as a set of practices that unfold in networked activity systems. Focusing on the literacy practices of pregnant couples and parents of children with heart defect, we show that they participate in multiple activities with the object of constructing knowledge about the child's condition. The contexts for these activities are doctor-patient consultations and the parents' online searching and sharing. The study builds on ethnographic interv...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The “fullness of life”: Learner interests and educational experiences
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Helen HedgesAbstractIt is well-established that personal interests drive motivation and engagement in human endeavours. How might educational settings recognise and tap into these interest-fuelled motivations to promote and extend learning? Where there is a play-based curriculum in early childhood education interests-based approaches may be possible. Such approaches may be more challenging to enact within the more prescriptive curricula, assessment regimes, and accountabilities schooling commonly operates within tha...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Children's interests in the early years classroom: Views, practices and challenges
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Maria BirbiliAbstractEarly childhood teachers' understanding of interest as a learning phenomenon often comes from brief references in textbooks and curriculum documents. This can create a gap between rhetoric and the reality of practice. The study presented here aimed to explore how teachers conceptualize children's interests in early years curriculum and appropriate related curriculum guidelines in their practice. It responds to calls in the literature for more studies on teachers' knowledge and decision making in...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Learning for the future: Insights arising from the contributions of Piotr Galperin to the cultural-historical theory
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Irina Engeness, Andreas LundAbstractThe contribution of Piotr Galperin (1902–1988) to cultural - historical theory and related approaches to pedagogy remains little known in the West and is often reduced to listing the phases of the formation of mental actions. In this paper, introducing this Special Issue centred on four of his lectures given in the period 1970s–80s to psychology and philosophy students at Moscow State University, we attempt to position his contribution in the context of those made by Vygotsky,...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A pedagogy for interest development: The case of amateur astronomy practice
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Flávio S. AzevedoAbstractThis special issue of Learning, Culture and Social Interaction (LCSI) calls for conceptualizing interests as a learning phenomenon so that accounts of thought processes can be more faithful to the “fulness of [one's] life” (Vygotsky, 1978, p. 10). I address such a call by investigating the pedagogy of the hobby of amateur astronomy. Hobbies are widely regarded as prototypically interest-driven practices, and thus probing how they structure opportunities for participation and learning ca...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Narrative and conversational manifestation of contradictions: Social production of knowledge for expansive learning
Publication date: Available online 1 December 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Silvia Ivaldi, Giuseppe ScarattiAbstractThe paper presents a formative intervention realized in Italy through which the authors highlight how participants develop transformative agency inside collective situations. The authors attempt to illustrate how the use of narrative and conversational material allows the identification, recognition, and elaboration of the organizational contradictions in formative interventions. The paper addresses the early steps of expansive learning (i.e., questioning and analyzing the sit...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - December 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
