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Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching
We live in a world marked by a crisis that we understand, from post-colonial literature, as a crisis of the knowledge model that underpins Western...
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Understanding the onto-semiotic approach in mathematics education through the lens of the cultural historical activity theory
Research in mathematics education can be understood as a system of activities addressing the basic and applied problems related to teaching and...
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Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
The science education field has a long tradition and interest in map** its community and research using mostly bibliometric methods. At the same...
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Cultural-Historical Theory and Analysis
The aim of the chapter is to first locate cultural-historical theory and methodology as a means of analysing the process of development and to then...
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Cultural-Historical Reconceptualisation of Contexts: Introducing Genetic-Analytical Model
This chapter provides a critical analysis of existing cultural-historical theorisations of contexts and presents possible directions for further...
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“I’m on My Own and I’m Not Trained”: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Analysis of Teaching Mathematics Out-of-Field in a Small School
This paper employs Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as an analytical heuristic in exploring the internationally prevalent situation of...
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Using cultural historical activity theory to reflect on the sociocultural complexities in OSCE examiners’ judgements
Examiners’ judgements play a critical role in competency-based assessments such as objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). The...
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Using cultural historical activity theory to understand how post-graduate residents perform discharge planning at a medical center in Taiwan
BackgroundDespite the importance of discharge planning in physicians’ education, currently in most countries, no identical training is provided....
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Negotiating border-crossings when ‘adult education’ meets ‘vocational learning’. Comparative historical notes on defining the ‘research object’
This paper offers a theoretical perspective on socio-historical research addressing the social organisation of communication and learning as cultural...
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Introduction: Contexts and Cultural-Historical Approach to Child Development
In this introductory chapter, we would like to introduce the main narratives of this book as a result of the collaboration of three authors. We...
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The Cultural-Historical Framework for Understanding the Bi-cultural Context for Second-Generation Chinese Australian Children’s Transition to School
This chapter delves into the bi-cultural context sha** second-generation Chinese Australian children’s school transition, through a...
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Cultural Psychology
The chapter presents an overview and the historical background of what can be considered the family of “cultural psychologies,” that is, those...
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Preserving Historical Memory through Educational Silence Practice
The article deals with the didactic and methodological foundations of silence in learning, focused on students’ reproduction of their own meanings...
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Designing, implementing, and evaluating a mobile app-based cultural care training program to improve the cultural capacity and humility of nursing students
BackgroundGiven the growing cultural diversity among healthcare clients, it is crucial for nursing education to have a clear mission: to effectively...
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Assessing cultural safety in general practice consultations for Indigenous patients: protocol for a mixed methods sequential embedded design study
BackgroundAssessment of cultural safety in general practice consultations for Indigenous patients is a complex notion. Design and development of any...
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Non-affirmative Theory of Education and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Where Do They Meet?
This study investigates how cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and non-affirmative theory of education (NAT) position themselves regarding...
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Cultural-Historical Wholeness Approach: Critical Activity Settings of More-Than-Parental Involvement
This chapter starts with a description of the cultural-historical wholeness approach as a theory of child development. The theory’s considerable...
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Cultural nationalism and its effect on Chinese higher education: continuity and variation
Since 1840, Chinese political leaders have struggled to draw effectively from Western culture without abandoning the Chinese essence in their design...
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Global (citizenship) education and national narratives: The perspective of Pakistan
In tracing the historical emergence of the field of global education and its associated educational traditions, this article examines some of the...
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Parental Influences on Students’ Cultural Development from Comparative Perspective
Based on the discussion of parental influences on students’ participation in music activities in Chaps. 4 –...