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In an Activity Theory (AT) based study, researchers attend to both the individual elements of the AT model and to perceptions participants have of tensions between elements. Of all the elements analysed, it is arguably the element of tools that plays the most central role in investigations.
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Pohio, K. (2016). Activity Theory Tools. In: Gedera, D.S.P., Williams, P.J. (eds) Activity Theory in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-387-2_10
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