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The Problem of (Learning) Context

In this book we repeatedly note that the social tends to be taken in a trivial sense in much of the existing literature. By this we mean to say that we do not get very far (e.g. Chap. 5) when we merely denote that individuals do things together and learn (internalize) during the process—even if we were emphasizing the increasing and important orientation of educational researchers and practitioners towards the importance of considering learning as a social process. Underlying this generalized treatment of the social there is a particular view on the very idea of context, the epistemological origin of which seems to escape researchers irrespective of their affiliation with a cognitivist, sociocultural, or situated cognition perspective. Rather than seeing the social as external context, Vygotsky’s Spinozist approach takes cognition, learning, and development as social phenomena sui generis. To better understand how this is different from most existing literature on learning and instruction—including literatures that affiliate themselves with a Vygotskian tradi- tion—we provide a critical analysis of the notion of context that goes beyond the individual-social opposition.

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The Creation of an Active Learning Context for a Chinese Class
Ann Devitt1 Email: ann.devitt@tcd.ie^Email: weiming.liu@dcu.ie and Weiming Liu2 1Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 2Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. This chapter presents how the implementation of coteaching promotes an active learning environment...
(Conflict and Communication: A Changing Asia in a Globalizing World)
Analysis of Learning Context
As the main technology context for online learning, Canvas is the LMS that the university adopted in 2014 to host the online courses. An LMS is a software that “centralizes course preparation; educational content and resources; the delivery and tracking of student activities, such as discussion and...
(Learning and Knowledge Analytics in Open Education: Selected Readings from the AECT-LKAOE 2015 Summer International Research Symposium)
Findings: Learning Problems and Learning Disability
For the most part, scholars who study learning disabilities have not concerned themselves with delinquency or violence. We only point to these studies because learning disabilities are likely to be associated with academic achievement and the other school problems that we are studying. In our sample,...
(Thugs and thieves : the differential etiology of violence)
Setting the Problem History and Context
The beginnings of analytic philosophy in the early twentieth century with the writings of Russell and Moore focused attention on questions concerning perception theory. These epistemological issues in turn became dominant in much twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy. Given the continuing interest...
(Aquinas’s theory of perception: an analytic reconstruction)
The learning context
What factors influence children’s motivation to learn? What can we learn from a greater understanding of how pupils’ experience of and attitudes to school may be influenced by different social and national contexts? The questionnaire responses elicited the finding that although, on the whole, children...
(The Sociology of Assessment: Comparative and Policy Perspectives:The Selected Works of Patricia Broadfoot)
Creating Learning Contexts Based on Critical Caring
As teachers ask what kinds of learning contexts and tools might support their students advocating for themselves, their communities, and others, the responses need to be grounded in a deep respect for students and communities, which may help cultivate relationships of trust. Several chapters in this...
(Latina Agency through Narration in Education: Speaking Up on Erasure, Identity, and Schooling)
The Learning Context: Intro to Painting
Earlier, I referred to Eisner’s argument that what the arts teach is not universal but rather depends on what is taught and how (Eisner, 2002). With this in mind, in this section, I present an overview of Intro to Painting, focusing on the beliefs that undergird the course and on the course’s...
(Multidisciplinary Approaches to Art Learning and Creativity: Fostering Artistic Exploration in Formal and Informal Settings)
Space is the problem: overcoming the context with technology
The widely deterministic and soft-utopian discourse coming from the corporate information and communication technology (ICT) sector (Söderström et al., 2014) and smart city’ entrepreneurs, implies somehow the need to declare current urban models as terminally ill. This is necessary to then assert...
(The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities)
CONTEXT: CHANGING REQUIREMENTS DEMAND NEW LEADERSHIP LEARNING
How Does Austria Organize Public Health? Like most industrialized countries, Austria is confronted with permanently rising health expenses. In 2007, Austria invested 10.3% of GDP in the health-care system and was third place in the EU comparison (Habl, Bachner, Klinser, & Ladurner, 2010)....
(Leadership Learning for the Future)