Wikiversity:Developing Wikiversity through action research/Theories
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Page for outlining and developing theories informing the project Developing Wikiversity through action research. The page is only a skeleton at the moment - please, feel free to add ideas or comments here or on the talk page.
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[edit] Activity theory
w:Activity theory visualises activity as a fundamentally social act - where social structures and artifacts mediate the activity of a group of people.
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- Specifically Engestrom's "expansive learning"
[edit] Communities of practice
w:Communities of practice - Etienne Wenger
[edit] Collaboration
Theories on how we collaborate, why we collaborate, how collaboration works, and what effect collaboration has on the immediate context and society in general
[edit] Radical pedagogy
[edit] Power
[edit] Democracy
- Dewey: Democracy and education
- Chantal Mouffe
- Ricardo Blaug
[edit] Organisational learning
There's a lot of such theory that errs on the "management-speak" side - I'll be using this to some extent, but also applying critical angles from within and outside this field.
