Journal Articles

Mind, Culture, and Activity

• ISSN: 10749039

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"Now it's not school, it's for real!: Negotiated participation in media vocational training

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By taking up the strand in Lave and Wenger's writing on situated learning that directs attention to social dynamics and issues of power and positioning, the present article argues for the fruitfulness of including the concept of negotiated participation in approaches to teaching and learning. Based …

Professional perception and expert action: Scaffolding embodied practices in professional education

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From vocational education to neurosurgery residencies, apprenticeship training is characteristic of how people are acculturated to a profession. One of the primary goals of professional education is to develop skillful performance. Expert skill includes an integrated set of perceptual and motor abil…

Conceptualizing learning experiences: Contributions and mediations of the social, personal, and brute

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This article conceptualizes and elaborates what constitutes learning experiences. It does so from a perspective that centres on experiences as arising through relations between social and personal worldsyet also acknowledges the mediation of brute facts (i.e., nature). The social contributions are t…

Boundary-crossing competence: Theoretical considerations and educational design

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This article provides a conceptual account and empirical analyses of the development of boundary-crossing competencethe ability to function competently in multiple contextsusing representative cases from two after-school programs with immigrant and low-socioeconomic status students. Our findings sug…