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Vygotsky In Twenty-First-Century Research, Irina M. Verenikina
Vygotsky In Twenty-First-Century Research, Irina M. Verenikina
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
At the 2008 Ed-Media conference, a list of most often cited papers in Ed-Media 2004-2008 was revealed (Ochoa, Mendez & Duval, 2009). Vygotsky’s theoretical work, originally published in Russia in the 1930s, came top of the list by a large margin. This paper examines why, and how this theory still can be relevant to twenty-first-century research. It is argued that an effective use of modern educational technologies calls for the use of advanced pedagogies. Vygotsky’s theory provides a profound understanding of teaching and learning that reflect the complexity of social and cultural contexts in the modern learner. The most frequently …
Contract Research, Universities And The 'Knowledge Society': Back To The Future, Noel Castree
Contract Research, Universities And The 'Knowledge Society': Back To The Future, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Many chapters in this book focus on contract research (hereafter CR), but mine differs from these in three respects. First, rather than focus on CR in its own right I want to situate it in a much wider landscape of knowledge production, circulation and consumption. My reason for doing so is simple: we cannot possibly form a view on the why and wherefore of CR unless we understand the broader epistemic context in which it currently exists. As we'll see, in this context CR appears as just one instance of a widespread shift to seeing knowledge as a means to …
Neoliberalism And The Biophysical Environment: A Synthesis And Evaluation Of The Research, Noel Castree
Neoliberalism And The Biophysical Environment: A Synthesis And Evaluation Of The Research, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This article both synthesizes and critically evaluates a now large, multi-disciplinary body of published research that examines the neoliberalization of environmental regulation, management, and governance. Since the late 1970s, neoliberal ideas and ideals have gradually made their way into the domain of environmental policy as part of a wider change in the global political economy. While the volume of empirical research is now such that we can draw some conclusions about this policy shift, the fact that the research has evolved piecemeal across so many different disciplines has made identifying points of similarity and difference in the findings more difficult. …