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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