ten misunderstood as a simple slogan for hands-on activity; it is more precisely a claim that thinking and d... take responsibility through meaningful collective activity. The curriculum of this democratic school is orga... ge that underlies and illuminates every practical activity. A child who bakes bread is learning chemistry, m... s present in all intelligent, purposeful, engaged activity. Aesthetic experience, for Dewey, is not a specia
**mediation** — the proposition that human mental activity is not a direct response to stimuli but is always... h" — talking aloud to oneself while engaged in an activity — is a symptom of cognitive immaturity that simpl... tive, open-ended play as a genuinely intellectual activity rather than mere recreation — and it connects his... child's biological maturation and self-regulatory activity, Vygotsky located it in the social, cultural, and
inistry of Education, where he was exposed to the activity-theory approaches to curriculum being developed b... transmitter of knowledge to organiser of learning activity. In the dominant tradition of Vietnamese schoolin... ychology of [[lev_vygotsky|Lev Vygotsky]] and the activity theory developed by his students Leontiev and Dav... on — from teaching to organising, from content to activity, from reception to construction — was the philoso
nner connection in learning and the need for self-activity. Where his contemporaries regarded children as "d... ily grasp" and what was of interest to them; self-activity meant that genuine understanding arose from child... of human development … the purest, most spiritual activity of man at this stage." He challenged the strict, ... rom their surroundings through curiosity and self-activity anticipates key elements of Lev Vygotsky's socioc
irreducibly situated: it is inseparable from the activity, the context, the tools, and the social relations... e same thing but qualitatively different kinds of activity, shaped by different social relations, different ... er)
* //Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context// (1993, edited with Seth Chaiklin)
conviction — that thinking is itself a spiritual activity and the organ through which freedom is realised —... d learns primarily through imitation and physical activity; the environment itself is the curriculum, and th... ngly builds its entire curriculum around artistic activity: eurythmy (a form of expressive movement integrat
powerful when embedded in meaningful, purposeful activity rather than decontextualised drill; that digital ... nments as legitimate sites of serious educational activity. He also co-founded the 3e International School i... an instructor to a facilitator of entrepreneurial activity, positions failure as productive information rath
ment, such as the use of token economy, preferred activity time, and assertive discipline theory. His influe... es like extra recess time or choosing a classroom activity.
While token economy can be an effective classro
king, and knowledge are relations among people in activity in, with, and arising from the socially and cultu... a conceptual bridge between theories of situated activity and theories of social reproduction. In his solo
he construction of understanding through personal activity, or the development of capacities for practical u... cteristic configurations of professional learning activity that parallel the student learning typologies: so
upted work cycles, its emphasis on child-directed activity, its absence of external rewards and punishments,... to achieve deep concentration, complete cycles of activity, and experience the satisfaction of self-directed
