Vocational Curriculum and Pedagogy: An Activity Theory Perspective

Vocational curriculum and pedagogy : An activity theory perspective

This paper advances a scheme that proposes how curriculum goals and content might be conceptualised for vocational education. The scheme is founded in socio-historical activity theory. An account of the social sources of vocational knowledge (sociogeneses) comprising history, culture and situation is discussed to illuminate how both the canonical requirements of vocational practice and its mani...

Teaching Political Economy: Curriculum and Pedagogy

The teaching of political economy offers an alternative, and a challenge, to conventional economics education. Its emphasis on the competing currents of economic thought and their association with rival political philosophies adds complexity to the subject. However, this engagement with controversial issues creates more intellectual excitement than a narrow, ‘technical’ treatment of orthodox ec...

Online Case Discussions: an activity theory perspective

In this paper we present a perspective of case discussions in an online learning environment based on Activity Theory, which allows us to analyse the embedded nature of students’ learning activities. We see Activity Theory as a first step towards structuring the complexity of students’ experiences in today’s higher education systems, recognising the distinction between potential and actual lear...

Hybridity of Scientific Discourses: an Intertextual Perspective and Implications for ESP Pedagogy

In light of a large number of admirable attempts which look at scientific discourse from social, dialogic and interpersonal points of view, the propositions which consider scientific discourse as an interactive endeavor are now well-established. By the force of our social constructivist gyrations, we have developed glimpses of a social, cultural and historical dimension in which the discourse o...

Vocational Teachers ' Role in Workplace Learning Curriculum