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  2. Activity theory - Wikipedia

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    Activity theory (AT; Russian: Теория деятельности) [1] is an umbrella term for a line of eclectic social-sciences theories and research with its roots in the Soviet psychological activity theory pioneered by Sergei Rubinstein in the 1930s.

  3. Cultural-historical activity theory - Wikipedia

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    A.N. Leontiev developed the second generation of activity theory, which is a collective model. In Engeström's [ 12 ] depiction of second-generation activity, the unit of analysis includes collective motivated activity toward an object, making room for understanding how collective action by social groups mediates activity.

  4. Aleksei Leontiev - Wikipedia

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    For Leontiev, the psychological [3] of 'activity' consisted of those processes "that realize a person's actual life in the objective world by which he is surrounded, his social being in all the richness and variety of its forms" (Leontiev 1977). The core of Leontiev's work is the proposal that we can examine human processes from the perspective ...

  5. Appropriation of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Appropriation in education is often understood and analyzed through activity theory.This theory was developed by Aleksei N. Leontiev and focuses on understanding the socio-cultural context (specifically the setting) learning occurs in. [7] Activity theory is predicated on the assumption that a person's frameworks for thinking are developed and carried out in specific settings, [8] and that ...

  6. Leading activity - Wikipedia

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    A leading activity is conceptualized as joint, social action with adults and/or peers that is oriented toward the external world. In the course of the leading activity, children develop new mental processes and motivations, which "outgrow" their current activity and provide the basis for the transition to a new leading activity (Kozulin, Gindis, Ageyev, & Miller 2003: 7).

  7. Cultural-historical psychology - Wikipedia

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    Other notable areas of theory and practice that are in the dialogue with the cultural-historical tradition of Vygotsky and Luria are psychotherapy, [20] theory of art, [21] "dialogical science", [22] cognitive science, [23] semiotics [24] and, in the words of Oliver Sacks, somewhat vague perspective, mindset and philosophy of "romantic science".

  8. Situated cognition - Wikipedia

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    Situated cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing [1] by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts. [2] Situativity theorists suggest a model of knowledge and learning that requires thinking on the fly rather than the storage and retrieval of conceptual ...

  9. Constructivist teaching methods - Wikipedia

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    The development of constructivist models of teaching are specifically attributed to the works of Maria Montessori, which were further developed by more recent by theorists such as David A. Kolb, and Ronald Fry, among others. [4] These theorists have proposed sensory and activity-based learning methods.