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Perspectives on activity theory / edited by Yrjö Engeström, Reijo Miettinen, Raija-Leena Punamäki.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 462 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511812774 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.19/8 21
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Contents:
Activity theory and individual and social transformation / Yrjö Engeström -- The content and unsolved problems of activity theory / Vassily V. Davydov -- Knowledge as shared procedures / Stephen Toulmin -- Activity theory in a new era / Vladmir A. Lektorsky -- Society versus context in individual development: does theory make a difference? / Charles W. Tolman -- Cultural psychology: some general principles and a concrete example / Michael Cole -- Laws, logics, and human activity / Antti Eskola -- Collapse, creation, and continuity in Europe: how do people change? / Yrjö-Paavo Häyrynen -- Activity theory and the concept of integrative levels / Ethel Tobach -- The relevance to psychology of Antonio Gramsci's ideas on activity and common sense / Francesco Paolo Colucci -- The expanded dialogic sphere: writing activity and authoring of self in Japanese classrooms / Yuji Moro -- Improvement of schoolchildren's reading and writing ability through the formation of linguistic awareness / Kyoshi Amano -- Psychomotor and sociomotional processes in literacy acquisition: results of an ongoing case study involving a nonvocal cerebral palsic young man / Matthias Bujarski, Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon, Jan Kordt -- Play and motivation / Pentti Hakkarainen -- Drama games with 6-year-old children: possibilities and limitations / Stig Broström -- Activity formation as an alternative strategy of instruction / Joachim Lompscher -- Activity theory and history teaching / Marianne Hedegaard -- Didactic models and the problem of intertextuality and polyphony / Jacques Carpay, Bert Van Oers -- Metaphor and learning activity / Bernd Fichtner -- Transcending traditional school learning: teacher's work and networks of learning / Reijö Miettinen -- The theory of activity changed by information technology / Oleg K. Tikhomirov -- Activity theory, transformation of work, and information systems design / Kari Kuutti -- Innovative learning in work teams: analyzing cycles of knowledge creation in practice / Yrjö Engeström -- Object relations theory and activity theory: a proposed link by way of the procedural sequence model / Anthony Ryle -- The concept of sign in the work of Vygotsky, Winnicott, and Bakhtin: futher intergration of object relations theory and activity theory / Mikael Leiman -- From addiction to self-governance / Anja Koski-Jännes.
Summary: Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its unit of analysis, thus bridging the gulf between the individual subject and the societal structure. This 1999 volume includes 26 chapters on activity theory by authors from ten countries. In Part I of the book, central theoretical issues are discussed from different points of view. Some topics addressed in this part are epistemology, methodology, and the relationship between biological and cultural factors. Part II is devoted to the acquisition and development of language. This part includes a chapter that analyzes writing activity in Japanese classrooms, and a case study of literacy skills of a man with cerebral palsy. Part III contains chapters on play, learning, and education, and Part IV addresses the meaning of technology and the development of work activities. The final part covers issues of therapy and addiction.
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Activity theory and individual and social transformation / Yrjö Engeström -- The content and unsolved problems of activity theory / Vassily V. Davydov -- Knowledge as shared procedures / Stephen Toulmin -- Activity theory in a new era / Vladmir A. Lektorsky -- Society versus context in individual development: does theory make a difference? / Charles W. Tolman -- Cultural psychology: some general principles and a concrete example / Michael Cole -- Laws, logics, and human activity / Antti Eskola -- Collapse, creation, and continuity in Europe: how do people change? / Yrjö-Paavo Häyrynen -- Activity theory and the concept of integrative levels / Ethel Tobach -- The relevance to psychology of Antonio Gramsci's ideas on activity and common sense / Francesco Paolo Colucci -- The expanded dialogic sphere: writing activity and authoring of self in Japanese classrooms / Yuji Moro -- Improvement of schoolchildren's reading and writing ability through the formation of linguistic awareness / Kyoshi Amano -- Psychomotor and sociomotional processes in literacy acquisition: results of an ongoing case study involving a nonvocal cerebral palsic young man / Matthias Bujarski, Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon, Jan Kordt -- Play and motivation / Pentti Hakkarainen -- Drama games with 6-year-old children: possibilities and limitations / Stig Broström -- Activity formation as an alternative strategy of instruction / Joachim Lompscher -- Activity theory and history teaching / Marianne Hedegaard -- Didactic models and the problem of intertextuality and polyphony / Jacques Carpay, Bert Van Oers -- Metaphor and learning activity / Bernd Fichtner -- Transcending traditional school learning: teacher's work and networks of learning / Reijö Miettinen -- The theory of activity changed by information technology / Oleg K. Tikhomirov -- Activity theory, transformation of work, and information systems design / Kari Kuutti -- Innovative learning in work teams: analyzing cycles of knowledge creation in practice / Yrjö Engeström -- Object relations theory and activity theory: a proposed link by way of the procedural sequence model / Anthony Ryle -- The concept of sign in the work of Vygotsky, Winnicott, and Bakhtin: futher intergration of object relations theory and activity theory / Mikael Leiman -- From addiction to self-governance / Anja Koski-Jännes.

Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its unit of analysis, thus bridging the gulf between the individual subject and the societal structure. This 1999 volume includes 26 chapters on activity theory by authors from ten countries. In Part I of the book, central theoretical issues are discussed from different points of view. Some topics addressed in this part are epistemology, methodology, and the relationship between biological and cultural factors. Part II is devoted to the acquisition and development of language. This part includes a chapter that analyzes writing activity in Japanese classrooms, and a case study of literacy skills of a man with cerebral palsy. Part III contains chapters on play, learning, and education, and Part IV addresses the meaning of technology and the development of work activities. The final part covers issues of therapy and addiction.

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