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
