What the participants share, their common “sense” of the world, creates a foundation, a framing, an orientation, that enables human actors to see and act in coordination with one another. The methods the participants use to understand each other as they act, also produce, either intentionally or unintentionally, partial understandings, lack of understandings, and misunderstandings, which are al...

Effectiveness of professional development is affected by the quality of social interaction. This study examines how online collaborative dialogues might influence teachers’ decisions in their classrooms—sometimes hurting when not appropriated well. This theoretical article extends principal sociocultural approaches to a cognitive concept called intersubjectivity through illustrations of empiric...

Technology enhanced learning environments are characterized by socio-technical interactions. Socio-technical interactions involve individuals interacting with (a) technologies, and (b) other individuals. These two critical aspects of socio-technical interactions in technology enhanced learning environments are theoretically conceived as (a) appropriation of sociotechnical affordances and (b) st...

This paper illustrates the complexity of pointing as it is employed in a design workshop. Using the method of interaction analysis, we argue that pointing is not merely employed to index, locate or fix reference to an object, but also constitutes a practice for reestablishing intersubjectivity and solving interactional trouble such as misunderstandings or disagreements by virtue of enlisting so...

Supporting project awareness in the context of large-scale software development is difficult. One key problem is identifying appropriate abstractions and techniques for the insertion of project awareness mechanisms into a software development environment with minimal impact. An additional problem is scaling project awareness mechanisms to handle the demands of large-scale software development p...

We can look on suicidal process from many angles. New knowledge’s has lead to more holistic treatment in psychiatry (Jakovljević 2008). Our team has studying suicidality last years, mainly in the field of neurobiology and psychotherapy (Marčinko et al. 2002-2011). One of the main factors for suicidal prevention in clinical practice is area of intersubjectivity. The important part of intersubjec...

Cultural and community psychology share a common emphasis on context, yet their leading journals rarely cite each other's articles. Greater integration of the concepts of culture and community within and across their disciplines would enrich and facilitate the viability of cultural community psychology. The contextual theory of activity settings is proposed as one means to integrate the concept...

Abstract One main challenge of non-platonist philosophy mathematics is to account for the apparent objectivity mathematical knowledge. Cole and Feferman have proposed accounts that aim explain through intersubjectivity In this paper, focusing on arithmetic, I will argue these as such cannot However, with support from recent progress in empirical study development arithmetical cognition, a stron...

Abstract This chapter explores how the general theory of hermeneutics may help us to clarify education and process Bildung relate. To this end, consists two sections. The first section outlines why we need different notions subjectivity intersubjectivity for talking about premises pedagogical interaction and, in addition, results Bildung. Three pairs are identified: as anthropological precondit...