Cultural-historical activity theory: Vygotsky's forgotten and suppressed legacy and its implication for mathematics education

Mathematics Education Research Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-104

  Roth, Wolff Michael ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Cognition; Ethics; Ideal; Inner contradictions; Marxist psychology; Materialist dialectics; Praxis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858665151     PISSN: 10332170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13394-011-0032-1     Document Type: Review

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