Effects of Participation in the Fifth Dimensiêr Transfer

William E. Blanton, Gary B. Moorman, Bobbie A. Hayes, and Mark L. Warner
Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 16, Number 4, 1997, p. 371-396

The Fifth Dimension is a distributed literacy consortium comprised of after-school programs located in Boys and Girls Clubs, YM & YWCAs, recreation centers, and public schools across America, Mexico, Australia, Sweden, and Russia. The Fifth Dimension is also a mixed activity system designed to continue the projection of a secondary psychology and to instantiate cultural-historical activity theory. At the macro level the Fifth Dimension is a cultural system containing the rules, artifacts. divisions of labor, and outcomes that appropriate local Fifth Dimension cultures. The four overarching goals of the Fifth Dimension are: 1) to create sustainable activity systems in different institutional settings that instantiate cultural-historical activity theory, 2) provide contexts for children to master knowledge and skills and acquire practices mediating cognitive and social development, 3) deepen our understanding of how the social and individual create each other, and 4) to provide a context in which undergraduates from disciplines such as developmental psychology, communications, and teacher education have opportunities to connect theory with practice and at the same time deliver community service to children in the local community.

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