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Paulo Freire and Informal Education - http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed. |
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Socio-cultural theory - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html
A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning. |
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Of Chickens and Projects - http://www.fno.org/nov97/egg.html
A project-based curriculum is intended to improve the environment for learning in schools -- to give students a fuller spectrum of opportunities for building their strength and confidence as learners. |
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Spinning Webs of Significance - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/iscrat_99.html
This paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing. It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory. |
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The Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning: John Dewey, Experiential Learning, and the Core Practices. ERIC Digest. - http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-3/foxfire.htm
Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which examines the experiental learning theories of John Dewey and applies them to the Foxfire readers. |