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Undergraduate essay production as cultural practice: technological, social and institutional mediation
thesis
posted on 2018-08-17, 13:39 authored by Roy DymottCoursework essay production plays central roles in the learning and assessment of many
undergraduates. This investigation is concerned with how students accomplish essay
production through engagements with documents and other resources. Unlike more
traditional psychological approaches, 'cultural psychology' (Cole, 1996) sees such
resources as intrinsic to cognition and action. Cultural psychology is adopted as the
theoretical framework for this investigation. Three empirical studies are conducted. They
comprise a set of complementary lenses, focusing upon different 'levels' of activity and
different aspects of context. [Continues.]
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Publisher
© Roy DymottPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2002Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en