Leontiev’s Theory of Activity and Donald Schön’s Reflective Professor: reflections on teacher education

Recognizing Stalactites and Stalagmites of ELT Vodcasting in Teacher Education Based on Activity Theory and Visual Thinking Strategies

Teachers need to know new applications for developing online materials and then they should become aware of different ways to present them to online audience. This study tries to help ELT teachers to overcome challenges and difficulties of vodcasting by recognizing their social and biological motives (Activity Theory), and using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). It can alter teachers’ negative ...

Reflections on the Teacher Identities in Music Education [TIME] Project

The content of this article is the sole responsibility of the author. The ACT Journal and the Mayday Group are not liable for any legal actions that may arise involving the article's content, including, but not limited to, copyright infringement. Introduction One of the enduring paradoxes of music education in England in recent years is the difference between the relative ubiquity of music in m...

Redesigning an ‘Urban’ Teacher Education Program: An Activity Theory Perspective

In this article, we use activity theory to frame the redesign of an urban teacher education program. Some of the contradictions that we had to deal with are endemic to traditional teacher education programs while others were particular to this program that has as its goal to prepare teachers to work in urban (inner city) schools. As a result of our intervention, the implementation of coteaching...

Donald Schön, The Reflective Practitioner, and The Comparative Failures of Legal Education

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...