The paper explores Durkheim?s ambivalent position towards psychology, drawing on his debates with Comte, Tarde, and Wundt. In addressing this issue, we propose different types of anti-psychologism in sociology: epistemological (excluding psychological dimensions from sociological explanations), institutional (denying psychology the status science), strategic (establishing sociology as a scienti...

Video games have become important objects of study for different academic disciplines. From the birth medium in mid-twentieth century to present, video offered new and creative ways approaching reality fiction, not only serve as entertainment, but also significant cultural, social, technological implications. The formal this is purview field game studies, which brings together contributions var...

Research background: Living in a digitalized connected world changes the dynamic of learning process. Recent issues economy and society have increased demand for online education drastically. But many enterprises higher find themselves unprepared to satisfy this effectively because digital is relatively new under-researched field especially regarding instruments social aspects. For study we ado...

This article discusses how academic writing pedagogies for multilingual students can be transformed by the literacy traditions that these bring to North American classrooms. is an embodied and personal rendition, situated in author's South Asian literacies as illustrative of Global traditions, draws from his own empirical research teaching practices instructors TESOL. Informed developments deco...

Since the 1970s, marine debris pollution has been considered a global environmental problem because of serious threat it poses. Based on 2010 data, amount from four ASEAN countries plus China exceeded quarter total pollution. In 2015, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular 14th goal regarding life under water, were implemented to address this issue realm. But regionally, as biggest...

This article aims to describe the results of competency analysis SKI teachers at MAN 2 Model Medan in implementing 2013 curriculum learning based on Semester Credit System. The method used is a qualitative research with naturalistic approach using data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. Then reduction, presentation drawing conclusions. While validity are cr...

This work applies a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) framework to understand how the outcome of high school laboratory task may be positively influenced without making changes hands-on practical itself. Informed by cognitivism, novel instruction videos that were based on same video but had different audio content (“one two voice overs”) have been developed provide opportunities prepar...

With the latest paradigm shift in SLA from Cognitivism to Sociocultural Theory (SCT), more studies are carried out to investigate the efficacy of Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) through a social and cultural lens. A more recent offspring of SCT is Activity Theory which provides an explanatory framework for scrutinizing an activity in a social setting. The present study aimed at investigating ...

This paper assesses the current status of Piaget s theory of sensorimotor intelli gence in relation to three persistent issues about the abilities of human infants the nature of initial mechanisms the traditional view that re presentational functioning is the outcome of infant development and the place of general purpose developmental processes Varela s view of three successive paradigms for co...