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- The Montessori Method - The full text with illustrations from: The Montessori Method (1912) by Maria Montessori, translated by Anne Everett George. Hosted by UPenn digital library.
- Activity Theory, an Introduction - Activity Theory originated in the USSR, developed by Russian psychologists Vygotsky, Rubinshtein, Leontjev and Lurija. The theory is a philosophical framework that allows the study of different forms of human practice. The practice can be viewed as developmental processes where both individual and social levels are interlinked.
- Activity Theory Special Issue - A special issue of the Journal of Computer-supported Collaborative Work on activity theory and design, guest edited by David Redmiles and me, will appear in December 2001.
- Activity Theory: Basic Concepts and Applications - Introduces activity theory, a conceptual approach that provides a broad framework for describing the structure, development, and context of computer-supported activities.
- Activity theory - Work of Vygotsky and many others towards understanding human activity in terms of social, historical, cultural, and individual development; includes definitions, readings, links to conferences
- Socio-cultural theory - A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning.
- Constructivism in Teacher Education: Considerations for Those Who Would Link Practice to Theory - Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which shows how constructivism can be incorporated into teacher education.
- International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory - International association for researchers and practitioners committed to a cultural-historical approach of human development.
- Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research - We coordinate and carry out research and development projects on change and learning in work organizations. We create and apply new conceptual tools for understanding and mastering transformations in work, technology and organizations.
- Spinning Webs of Significance - Martin Ryder's paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing. It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory.
Wikipedia Articles
- Journal of Hydrologic Engineering - The Journal of Hydrologic Engineering is a bimonthly engineering journal, that was first published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1996 The journal provides information on the development of new hydrologic] methods, theories, and applications to current engineering problems. It publishes papers on analytical, experimental, and numerical methods with regard to the investigation and modeling of hydrological processes.
- Geophysics - Geophysics, a branch of Earth sciences, is the study of the Earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. The theories and techniques of geophysics are employed extensively in the planetary sciences in general.
- Economic history - Economic history is the study of how economic phenomena evolved in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using historical methods and statistical methods, sometimes to test economic theories.
- Vimla L Patel - Vimla Lodhia Patel, PhD, is a Fijian-born Canadian cognitive psychologist and biomedical informaticist. She pioneered the use of cognitive science methods and theories in research pertaining to medical problem-solving.
- Sociocultural linguistics - Sociocultural linguistics is a term used to encompass a broad range of theories and methods for the study of language in its sociocultural context. Its growing use is a response to the increasingly narrow association of the term sociolinguistics with specific types of research involving the quantitative analysis of linguistic features and their correlation to sociological variables.