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Barab, Sasha A.; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Educational Researcher, 2006
The goal of this article is to advance an ecological theory of knowing, one that prioritizes engaged participation over knowledge acquisition. To this end, the authors begin by describing the environment in terms of "affordance networks": functionally bound potentials extended in time that can be acted upon to realize particular goals. Although…
Descriptors: Ecology, Educational Environment, Curriculum Design, Social Networks