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Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research

 
The Centre's work addresses critically the dynamics of qualitative transformation within organised practices as found among individual, groups and organisations. 
Specific foci include:
  • Description and analysis of organised practices
  • Theoretical and methodological developments required to study the dynamics of transformation
  • The development of pedagogies and strategies for such transformation
Current research interests are:
  • Effort and attainment in secondary schools
  • Prosody in classroom discourse
  • Learning in and for interagency working
  • Institutional argumentation, justification and categorization during referral for additional help in primary schools
  • Development of teaching practices in nursing education through 'practice-developing research'
  • The practice and activity of preschool teaching
  • Sport and social exclusion
  • The implications for children of economic transformation in Russia, Brazil and South Africa
  • Digital storytelling
  • The formative effects of schooling on attitudes and beliefs about security, violence and crime.
  • The implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act
  • Institutional modality and authority in secondary school reform
  • Teachers’ and school leaders’ learning in the midst of work
  • Teacher-student dialogue and its impact on learning
  • Inclusive education
  • Theories of dialogue and their relation to educational praxis

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