Activity, Dialogue and Cultural-Historical Theories

Educational anthropology, or the anthropology of education, is a subfield of sociocultural anthropology that focuses on the role of culture in education and how educational settings shape social processes and cultural relations.

A dialogue journal is an ongoing written interaction between two people to exchange experiences, ideas, knowledge, or reflections.

Commognition is a theory of thinking and learning in learning sciences research, introduced by Anna Sfard in 2008 book.

Conversation theory is a pedagogical, dialectical, and cybernetic framework that examines conversation, cognition and learning in the context of two conversational participants who attempt to establish what is meant by a topic during a conversation.

Dialogic learning is learning that takes place through dialogue.

Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) is a theoretical framework to conceptualize and analyse the relationship between cognition (what people think and feel) and activity (what people do).

Under the rubric of systemic-structural activity theory (SSAT), this work represents a modern synthesis within activity theory which brings together the cultural-historical and systems-structural strands of the tradition (as well as other work within Soviet psychology such as the Psychology of Set) with findings and methods from Western human factors/ergonomics and cognitive psychology.

Private speech is speech spoken to oneself.

Appropriation of knowledge is the process of constructing knowledge from social and cultural sources, and integrating it into pre-existing schemas.