When overarching ideas such as that of eGovernment begin to travel (through different types of policy documents), this causes the operative leaders to play a specific role in translating the ideas into their own division’s “language” (Røvik, 2000; Latour, 1996; Czarniawska & Joerges, 1996). Local authorities are placed in the role of institutional mediators between global megatrends and local c...

The article reveals and substantiates the thesis that production of forms communication is main criterion for effectiveness intercultural communication. concept active intersubjectivity, which focuses on joint meaning formation, forming a local sphere allows us to model in communications. discusses attributes intersubjectivity should be considered when modelling cross-cultural communications fe...

This is a review of research on educational technology from a particular historical and theoretical perspective. It focuses on the research field of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) and does so based on the author’s personal experiences in that field. Starting with an overview of the changing role of technology in educational design, it then looks at the shifting function of ind...

empathy, embodied simulation, mirror neurons, multisensory integration, social cognition, touch This paper explores the sense of touch in relation to social cognition offering a new take on multisensory integration in the brain, within the framework of embodied simulation (ES) theory. ES provides a new empirically based notion of intersubjectivity, viewed first and foremost as intercorporeality...

Recently, a number of researchers within Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) have studied how discursive interaction unfolds between parent and child, as well as in the classroom (e.g. Matusov, 1996; Wells, 1996, Wertsch, 1985). Understanding such phenomena on the interpersonal plane is important given that the negotiation of intersubjective situation definitions is one of the vehicles o...