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. 2021 May 7;12:670886. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.670886

TABLE 3.

Categories, codes and inclusion criteria used.

Categories Analysis codes Inclusion criteria
Conceptual When the participant describes a theoretical type of learning, of facts and concepts. It includes the ability to identify, recognize, describe and compare objects, events or ideas.
What?
Procedural
When the participant describes learning based on actions and operations, either in practice or mentally. A set of ordered and completed actions, that is to say, aimed at the achievement of a goal. These include ability, technique, methods and strategies.

Personal
When the participant describes learning related to values, attitudes or rules in relation to their own subjectivity. It includes beliefs, sentiments, preferences, actions and declarations of intentions.

Educational institution When the participant describes learning as a result of participation in a formal educational institution and is physically inside the institution.
Formal
From home
When the participant describes learning as derived from participation in a formal educational institution, but physically he or she is at home. This includes online classes and other activities derived from academic work or study.
Where? Not formal When the participant describes learning as the fruit of an organized, planned educational activity undertaken outside the structure of the formal system. This includes activities that are not explicitly educational, but that contain components to support the learning process (training courses, free-time or sporting activities, extracurricular activities).
Informal When the participant describes spontaneous learning situations outside traditional educational institutions.

Alone
Teacher
When the participant reports learning while alone, without any other person present.
This includes teachers as well as other professionals who are involved in formal teaching and learning activities, such as librarians.
Who with? Peer group Classmates, partner, and/or friends.
Relatives Legal guardians, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, grandparents.
Other Social or community agents.

Cultural mediation Traditional format: physical mediator such as a book, magazine, manual, etc.
Digital format: physical mediator a digital resource or medium such as the Internet through a mobile phone, computer.
How? Without cultural mediation When the participant describes learning as a consequence of a reflective process without interaction with or use of any cultural artifact.
Social mediation Learning is described as a result of social interaction.
Without social mediation Learning is described as a result of personal work-reflection, without the explicit involvement of other people.