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Publication date: Available online 17 April 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Anne EdwardsAbstractThe starting point for the discussion in this article is Hedegaard's extension of the work of Leont'ev on the recursive interplay of person and society. Hedegaard locates the salient aspects of the social conditions in the dialectic of mind and society in institutional practices, with recurrent demands that participants find they need to orient towards. This insight places a strong focus on the challenges of entering new practices or moving between practices. Edwards' concept of common knowledge is...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How robots challenge institutional practices
Publication date: Available online 19 April 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Cathrine HasseAbstractIn a globalized world, tools are not what they used to be. Artefacts are material and ideal, but they are often used by people other than those who made them, creating a culture-culture split. The person who creates an artefact perceives it in one way; whereas the people who use it learn how to perceive it in relation their own activity settings and local institutional practices. In this article, I draw on a recent study of the introduction of a robot helper into the activity setting of a Danish ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Children's perspectives and institutional practices as keys in a wholeness approach to children's social situations of development
This article addresses a dilemma in relation to researching children's thinking and concept formation as an intentional process of competence acquisition and at the same time seeing children as persons in their life contexts, where the researcher also is a participant. Davydov's concept of theoretical knowledge and thinking helped me to tackle this dilemma as a dialectical process of moving from the general to the particular and back again by analysing children's concrete social situations starting from the societal conditions, then examining institutional objectives, and children's motive orientations in activity settings...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
John Dewey, subject purposes and schools of tomorrow: A centennial reappraisal of the educational contribution of physical education
Publication date: Available online 22 April 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Malcolm ThorburnAbstractThis historically-themed critical paper reappraises selective progressive education writings by John Dewey in relation to two questions: firstly, how was physical education organised and taught in the Gary Schools, a programme Dewey widely praised in Schools of Tomorrow and secondly, how might the educational aspirations of Dewey benefit current subject purposes in physical education. This exercise highlights points of disconnection between the ideas of Dewey and areas of practice in the Gary S...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Zombies and ethical theories: Exploring transformational play as a framework for teaching with videogames
In this study, we analyze how two teachers in two countries used the commercial videogame The Walking Dead™ to teach ethical theories in upper secondary citizenship education. In both cases, students collaborated in playing the videogame, and teachers led whole-class and small-group discussions to relate the game narrative to the curriculum. However, the analysis identified two different instructional designs and dialogic approaches to integrating the videogame with other educational resources. Extending the concept of transformational play, the analysis showed how the respective teaching approaches supported student lea...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Research and activist projects of resistance: The ethical-political foundations for a transformative ethico-onto-epistemology
Publication date: Available online 25 April 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Anna StetsenkoAbstractThe core argument in this paper is that all research schools and theoretical frameworks carry with them – and, importantly, also within them, as their inherent dimensions – particular ethical orientations (systems of values and ethical endpoints) tailored to and derivative from socio-political and ultimately, practical projects in which research uniquely gains its concreteness and meaning. These projects can be differentiated along the axis either of supporting (explicitly or implicitly) the ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Potential reproduction and renewal in a weekend mosque school in Canada: Educators' perspectives of learning and development
Publication date: Available online 26 April 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Claire Alkouatli, Jennifer A. VadeboncoeurAbstractGrounded in sociocultural theory, this paper describes and discusses three themes from a qualitative study that examined Muslim educators' perspectives on learning and developing in a Sunni mosque school in Canada. First, the educators described the objectives of Islamic education and human development as converging in a life-long trajectory. Teaching and learning Islamic principles and practices were intended for specific forms of Islamic development. Second, the educ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Motive orientations at work
Publication date: Available online 27 April 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Kasper MunkAbstractHedegaard's cultural-historical research offers unique resources for understanding motivation in institutional practices. While Hedegaard's work predominantly focuses on the motive orientations children pursue in their everyday activities, this article argues that her theoretical and methodological approach enables the unpacking of what constitutes the motivation of adult professionals. The article first provides a brief review of the growing body of research that uses Hedegaard's approach for the s...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The material and social constitution of interest
Publication date: Available online 3 May 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, Katie Van Horne, Erica Van Steenis, William R. PenuelAbstractIn the 21st century, what role does interest play in the organization of equitable learning opportunities for young people? Drawing on a large corpus of interview data from a longitudinal study of fifty-four adolescents involved in interest-driven afterschool activities domestically and abroad, we investigate the role of youths' interests in their everyday lives. Cognizant of the growing emphasis from sociocultural learning scholars on ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Myths about bilingual learning in family life settings: Werner Leopold's child language biographies and contemporary work on children's play practices
Publication date: Available online 3 May 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Karin AronssonAbstractIn four volumes, Werner Leopold documented his first child's acquisition of German and English (e.g. 1939; 1949). In this article I problematize contemporary myths about bilingualism that partly date back to Leopold's pioneering work and his theorizing about the one-language/one-person method of language development. Notably, this method worked for his first-born, but not for his second child, whose very existence has often not been noted. A dyadic bias – privileging the study of one parent/one ch...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Identity, tools and existential spaces
Publication date: Available online 10 May 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Federica RaiaAbstractIn this article I investigate the emergence of existential spaces during collaborative team work and learning practice. Within Advanced Heart Failure (AdHF) medical training and care I show how participants engage simultaneously in multiple synchronous activities of patient care and teaching and learning and how they make meaning across these spaces about what it means to be/become a learner, and practitioner - developing practice-linked identities (Nasir & Hand, 2008), as moment-to-moment oscillati...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The interplay between parental argumentative strategies, children's reactions and topics of disagreement during family conversations
This study aims to explore the interplay between parents' arguments, children's reactions and topics of disagreement during mealtime conversations. Within a data corpus constituted by 30 video-recorded meals of 10 Swiss and Italian families, a corpus of 132 argumentative discussions was selected for a qualitative analysis through the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. Findings indicate that both parents and children assume argument schemes related to the object of the disagreement: when the contested standpoints refer to food, arguments are based on a symptomatic relation; when they refer to the behavior of chil...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
On the act of giving, receiving and rendering: Piloting the use of YouTube videos to develop a contextually inspired portrait of social circus trainers
Publication date: Available online 24 May 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Karin Hannes, Lise UtenAbstractSocial circus interventions targeting vulnerable populations are often perceived as catalysts for change. In recent years, more attention is given to the role of trainers involved in social circus. Several studies have profiled them based on the set of competences they should master to achieve predefined outcomes in participants. We challenge the very act of profiling, arguing that the way trainers and participants connect can best be understood through observing the way they put themselve...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Promoting self-determination for students with intellectual disability: A Vygotskian perspective
Publication date: Available online 25 May 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Veerle Garrels, Patrik ArvidssonAbstractDespite weak correlations between IQ scores and self-determination, research indicates that individuals with intellectual disability (ID) show lower levels of self-determination than their non-disabled peers, and that they experience lower effects of self-determination interventions. From a Vygotskian perspective, self-determination skills can be considered complex cognitive abilities that develop through social interaction with and adequate scaffolding by competent tutors. This a...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
ADHD in the Interactional Context of Children's Cultures. A sociocultural critique of the individualizing gaze of the diagnosis
Publication date: June 2018Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 17Author(s): Thyge TegtmejerAbstractThis sociocultural study investigates whether aspects of the disruptive classroom behaviour of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-diagnosed students can be viewed as a way of participating in students' communities in class. Over two years, the interplay among students in two ADHD-inclusive mainstream Danish classrooms was studied. Classroom observational research, diagnostic tools and school-based interventions usually frame the behaviour of ADHD-diagnosed students as individual, impulsive be...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
