Digital curation emerged as an important new concept in the theory and management of cultural information, not least because of its broad applicability and promise of a universal approach to ensure future “fitness for purpose” of digital information. This paper explores curatorial traditions in the field of museums and cultural heritage, in order to contribute to the active current debate on th...

Some schools do not have local formal work environments enabling learners to interact with members in community of practice. This is noticeable in schools in developing countries, including the north eastern Zambezi Region of Namibia, where the study took place. To close the gap in which trainee science and mathematics teachers who were the participants failed to contextualize teaching and lear...

Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) can be used both as a theoretical and an analytical framework. It has been in wide variety of contexts over research objects education other fields requiring comprehensive understanding interactions within system. At level, the relation between double stimulation instrumental mediation studied understood, yet link conflicts motives is understudied. How...

This paper argues for analyzing the systematic invisibility of persons living with disabilities by temporalizing their oppression within a framework of “productive time,” which I posit as a normative sense of time by which cultural products and practices appear within capitalist economies. I argue that productive time is employed in cultural evaluations of actions that render persons with disab...

In this article, based on mutual appropriation of concepts from cultural-historical activity theory (especially Andy Blunden’s works) and Iranian Marxist tradition Kamal Khosravi’s ideas), I have elaborated two crises which, we believe, are main characteristics our historical stage other manifestations them: (a) crisis perspective human self-emancipation (b) in emancipatory social science. Cris...

This paper uses insider research within a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework to examine the lived induction-to-teaching experiences of twelve new academics at case-study Northern UK university. A CHAT lens foregrounds contradictions as source for change in process. Data generated through semi-structured interviews with these were analysed and, informed by CHAT, allowed us disc...

The teacher attrition at the beginning of teaching career has aggravated shortage teachers in some countries. We carried out a case study novice physics working two Brazilian schools. Based on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, we analyzed contradictions that emerged and how they transformed his activity. analysis indicates central contradiction, which from capitalist modes educational work a...