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This edited volume addresses the potential of Cultural Historical Activity Theory as an analytic tool in debates over higher education reform.
List of contents
1. Introduction Gordon Wells and Anne Edwards; 2. Goal formation and identity formation in higher education Deborah Downing and Michael Cole; 3. Using a cultural historical approach to understand educational change in introductory physics classrooms Chandra A. Turpen and Noah D. Finkelstein; 4. Taking responsibility for learning: CHAT in a large undergraduate class Gordon Wells; 5. CHAT and student writing David Russell; 6. Assessment in higher education - a CHAT perspective Anton Havnes; 7. The agency of the learner in the networked university: an expansive approach Russell Francis; 8. Supporting access to science and engineering through scientific argumentation Tamara Ball and Lisa Hunter; 9. Using CHAT to understand systems to support disabled students in higher education Jan Georgeson; 10. Internship: navigating the practices of an investment bank Natalie Lundsteen and Anne Edwards; 11. Identity change in the context of HE institutions Jorge Larremeamendy-Joerns; 12. Developing skills for collaborative, relational research in higher education: a cultural historical analysis Ioanna Kinti and Geoff Hayward; 13. Teacher education in the public university: the challenge of democratizing knowledge production Viv Ellis; 14. What does 'transformation of participation' mean in a university classroom? Exploring university pedagogy with the tools of cultural historical theory Holli Tonyan and Glen Auld; 15. Gentle partnerships: learning from the fifth dimension Honorine Norcon and Monica Nilsson.
Summary
This edited volume brings together the work of an international group of scholars to address the potential of Cultural Historical Activity Theory as an analytic tool in debates over higher education reform. The contributors take on a wide range of issues, ranging from pedagogy to administration and from teacher preparation to university outreach.
