Embodied multi-modal communication from the perspective of activity theory

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-210

  Williams, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Pedagogy; Threshold moment; Unit of analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349283553     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9164-y     Document Type: Article

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