Learning and expanding with activity theory /
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 p...
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2009.
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Table of 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.
