Professor Charles Desforges

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Professor Charles Desforges
Programme Director
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Challenges facing the Programme
development in theory/method
knowledge transformation for impact
capacity building
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Recent developments in theory
Overview folk psychology expert
performance connectionism participation
theory activity theory
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Folk psychology
knowledge is stuff mind is a
vessel learning is warehousing
acquisition is experience assessment is
inventorying
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Expert performance
everyday skill acquisition involves
introductory messing getting the
idea practice to sufficiency/automaticity
(a state of arrested development)
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Expert development
involves
ever setting new goals designing new
tests advancing cognitive representations
continuous monitoring of settings
deliberate planning for flexibility
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Connectionism
cognition not rule based perception
fundamental learning is organic
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Participation theories
knowledge is situated learning is
enculturation unit is community of
practice learner is apprentice key
concepts discourse
communication

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Activity theory
Unit of analysis the activity system (AS)
AS comprises community history projected
future artefacts
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Modelling AS
mediatingartefacts
subject
outcomes
object
rules
divisionof labour
community
history
future projection
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AS key concepts
internal tensions are forces for change
internalisation (cultural reproduction)
externalisation (cultural transformation)
key-concept ...... mediating
artefacts key fact ... knowledge is
an artefact
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Theoretical foci (overview)
expertise ... individual
actionconnectionism . individual
mindparticipation .. workshop
communitiesactivity theory.. extended
communities
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Development of methods
data collection / integration
advances in design
I S S
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Impact
keeping in touch
getting ahead
using assets
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Challenge facing the Programme
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going meta
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