Barab_et_al_on_activity_theory

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Elsewhere, as I have noted, Sasha Barab and his colleagues from Indiana University (e.g. Rob Kling) have published extensively on the application of Communities of Practice (CoPs) and the Social Informatics framework for building and understanding social learning in electronic spaces.

In their 2004 article, published in //Mind, Culture and Activity//, Barab, Schatz and Scheckler describe the “evolving structure” on an online forum “designed to support a web-based community of … mathematics and science teachers,” (2004, Abstract). The online forum aims to support online interaction between teachers. There have been case studies of research into online technologies that aim to support and collaboration within communities of professional educators, and Barab, Schatz and Scheckler point out such case studies often each system as a “unitary, coherent and refined entity,” (2004, p25).

Barab, S. A., Schatz, S., & Scheckler, R. (2004). Using Activity Theory to Conceptualize Online Community and Using Online Community to Conceptualize Activity Theory. //Mind, Culture, and Activity//, 11(1), 25-47.
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