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Peer reviewedScribner, Sylvia – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1985
Activity theory posits that culturally organized actions guide the acquisition and organization of knowledge. This theory was applied to the organization of knowledge within a large milk processing plant. The dairy was found to be organized by social knowledge, yet individuals creatively synthesized several domains of knowledge to organize their…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
