Wikiversity:Developing Wikiversity through action research/Theories
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.
Activity theory edit
w:Activity theory visualises activity as a fundamentally social act - where social structures and artifacts mediate the activity of a group of people.
- Specifically Engestrom's "expansive learning"
- See also Georgy Shchedrovitsky
Communities of practice edit
w:Communities of practice - Etienne Wenger
Collaboration edit
Theories on how we collaborate, why we collaborate, how collaboration works, and what effect collaboration has on the immediate context and society in general
Radical pedagogy edit
Power edit
Democracy edit
- Dewey: Democracy and education
- Chantal Mouffe
- Ricardo Blaug
Organisational learning edit
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.