We appropriate Rogoff’s (Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context, 1991; in: Wertsch et al. (eds.) Sociocultural studies of mind, 1993) notion of guided participation to demonstrate, through abbreviated case studies, our strategy for integrating mobile technology-based learning experiences in higher education. Guided participation implies facilitating access to shared...

This paper develops the concept of epistemic apprenticeship as a response to failures among privileged social actors perceive knowledge bases unjustly marginalised groups sources valuable insight. Inspired by Elizabeth Spelman’s reflections on and intersectional feminism, an represents obverse form apprenticeship; one in which socially knowers become apprentices those who do not enjoy equivalen...

Academic writing expertise, we argue, is acquired through long practice and by the mentoring of significant others in a socialisation process which resembles an ‘apprenticeship’. The way that feedback provided to novice writers community-sanctioned experts can scaffold research writers’ development texts their scholarly identities as writers, which, however, has been relatively little studied. ...

We present theoretical and empirical results for a framework that combines the benefits of apprenticeship and autonomous reinforcement learning. Our approach modifies an existing apprenticeship learning framework that relies on teacher demonstrations and does not necessarily explore the environment. The first change is replacing previously used Mistake Bound model learners with a recently propo...

The aim of this study is to see how healers are initiated in Ethiopia. The paper also describes the position of traditional healers in the current situation of Ethiopia. It is found out that most of spiritual healers believed that they are selected by divine power or spirit. The selections are manifested by a single or a combination of ways namely: through dream, escaping mortal accident, and m...

Feminist theorists have made valuable efforts to open up new lines of inquiry into the disadvantage suffered by women in philosophy virtue their sex, race, class, dis/ability, and other markers social identity. Within this scholarship there is growing recognition that issue requires modes intervention go deeper than commitments equal opportunity diversity training. This has intensified light mo...