Learning and expanding with activity theory / edited by Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels, Kris D. Gutiérrez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sannino, Annalisa, 1975- editor.

Daniels, Harry, editor.

Gutiérrez, Kris D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engeström, Yrjö, 1948-.

Engeström, Yrjö.

Action theory.

Intentionalism.

Act (Philosophy).

Learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Learning & Expanding with Activity Theory

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed and applied by Yrjö Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of Vygotsky and Leont'ev and focuses on current research concerns that are related to learning and development in work practices. His publications cross various disciplines and develop intermediate theoretical tools to deal with empirical questions. In this volume, Engeström's work is used as a springboard to reflect on the question of the use, appropriation, and further development of the classic heritage within activity theory. The book is structured as a discussion among senior scholars, including Y. Engeström himself. The work of the authors pushes on classical activity theory to address pressing issues and critical contradictions in local practices and larger social systems.

Contents:

Editors' introduction

Activity theory between historical engagement and future-making practice / Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels, and Kris Gutiérrez

Units of analysis

Cultural-historical activity theory and organization studies / Frank Blackler

Uses of activity theory in written communication research / David R. Russell

On the inclusion of emotions, identity, and ethico-moral dimensions of actions / Wolff-Michael Roth

Mediation and discourse

Mediation as a means of collective activity / Vladislav A. Lektorsky

Digital technology and mediation : a challenge to activity theory / Georg Rückriem

Contextualizing social dilemmas in institutional practices : negotiating objects of activity in labour market organizations / Åsa Mäkitalo and Roger Säljö

Expansive learning and development

The concept of development in cultural-historical activity theory : vertical and horizontal / Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamashko

Two theories of organizational knowledge creation / Jaakko Virkkunen

Contradictions of high-technology capitalism and the emergence of new forms of work / Reijo Miettinen

Spinozic reconsiderations of the concept of activity : politico-affective process and discursive practice in the transitive learning / Shuta Kagawa and Yuji Moro

Subjectivity, agency, and community

From the systemic to the relational : relational agency and activity theory / Anne Edwards

Expansive agency in multi-activity collaboration / Katsuhiro Yamazumi

The communicative construction of community : authority and organizing / James R. Taylor

Research leadership : productive research communities and the integration of research fellows / Sten Ludvigsen and Turi Øwre Digernes

Interventions

Who is acting in an activity system? / Ritva Engeström

Past experiences and recent challenges in participatory design research / Susanne Bødker

Clinic of activity : the dialogue as instrument / Yves Clot

The future of activity theory : a rough draft / Yrjö Engeström.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-357) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-19361-3

0-511-80998-0

0-511-60435-1

0-511-60357-6

0-511-65159-7

0-511-60279-0

OCLC:

609845568