Home » Activity Theory in Practice
Product Image

Activity Theory in Practice

€186.00
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
Category=JNA
Category=JNM
catholic
Catholic Maintained Schools
Change Laboratory Process
Change Laboratory Sessions
Chemical Pulp
Chemical Pulp Mill
Chemical Pulp Production
Children's Services Practitioners
Children’s Services Practitioners
collaborative practice in education
Cross-professional Collaboration
cultural
Customer's Production Process
Customer’s Production Process
developmental
discourse analysis education
DWR
DWR Session
educational change processes
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
expansive
Future Practice
historical
Home Care Client
Home Care Worker
Implicit Mediation
interagency collaboration
Interprofessional Working
Labour Power Potential
learning
Mobility Agreement
Multiprofessional Team
NATO Perspective
Optimisation Software
organisational learning
Professional Advisory Group
research
Senior High
sessions
system
teacher professional development
Techno Economic Paradigm
Vice Versa
work
workplace learning strategies

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415477246
  • Weight: 630g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2009
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in inter-organizational fields and continuous shaping of transformations. To understand and master this transition, powerful new conceptual tools are needed and are provided here.

The theoretical framework which has shaped these studies is Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). CHAT analyses how people and organisations learn to do something new, and how both individuals and organisations change. The theoretical and methodological tools used have their origins in the work of Lev Vygotsky and A.N. Leont’ev. In recent years this body of work has aroused significant interest across the social sciences, management and communication studies.

Working as part of an integrated international team, the authors identify specific findings which are of direct interest to the academic community, such as:

    • the analysis of vertical learning between operational and strategic levels within complex organizations;

    • the refinement of notions of identity and subject position within CHAT;

    • the introduction of the concept of ‘labour power’ into CHAT;

    • the development of a method of analysing discourse which theoretically coheres with CHAT and the design of projects.

Activity Theory in Practice will be highly useful to practitioners, researchers, students and policy-makers who are interested in conceptual and empirical issues in all aspects of ‘activity-based’ research.
About
Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at the University of Bath, UK. He is also Research Programme Director at the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research. Anne Edwards is Professor of Education and Director of Research at the Oxford University Department of Education, UK. Yrjö Engeström is Professor at the Center for Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Tony Gallagher is Professor at the Department of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Sten R. Ludvigsen is a Professor and Director at InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway.