activity system

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An activity system is a "… a networked community engaged in a particular common activity, acknowledging particular shared rules or conventions, and structured through a particular division of labour, as well as adopting particular tools and systems of mediation" (Taber, 2018, p.17).

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.