Perspectives on Activity Theory (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Engestrom, Yrjo

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316045541
• Artikelnr.: 41833952

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theoretical Issues: 1. Activity theory and individual and social
transformation Yrjo Engeström; 2. The content and unsolved problems of
activity theory Vassily V. Davydov; 3. Knowledge as shared procedures
Stephen Toulmin; 4. Activity theory in a new era Vladimir A. Letkorsky; 5.
Society versus context in individual development: does theory make a
difference? Charles W. Tolman; 6. Cultural psychology: some general
principles and a concrete example Michael Cole; 7. Laws logics and human
activity Antti Eskola; 8. Collapse creation and continuity in Europe - how
do people change? Yrjo-Paavo Hayrynen; 9. Activity theory and the concept
of integrative levels Eythel Tobach; 10. The relevance to psychology of
Antonio Gramsci's ideas on activity and common sense Francesco Paolo
Colucci; Part II. Language and its Acquisition: 11. The expanded dialogic
sphere: writing activity and authoring of self in Japanese classrooms Yuji
Moro; 12. Improvement of school children's reading and writing ability
through the formation of linguistic awareness Kyoshi Amano; 13. Psychomotor
and socio-emotional processes in literacy acquisition: results from an
ongoing case study involving a nonvocal cerebral palsic young man Matthias
Bujarski Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon and Jane Kordt; Part III. Play Learning
and Instruction: 14. Play and motivation Pentti Hakkarainen; 15. Drama
games with six year old children: possibilities and limitations Stig
Brostrom; 16. Activity formation as an alternative strategy of instruction
Joachim Lompscher; 17. Activity theory and historic teaching Mariane
Hedegaard; 18. Didactic models and the problem of intertextuality and
polyphony Jacques Carpay and Bert Van Oers; 19. Metaphor and learning
activity Bernd Fichtner; 20. Transcending traditional school learning:
teachers' work and networks of learning Reijo Miettinen; Part IV.
Technology and Work: 21. The theory of activity changed by information
technology Oleg K. Tikhomirov; 22. Activity theory transformation of work
and information systems design Kari Kuutti; 23. Innovative learning in work
teams: analyzing cycles of knowledge creation in practice Yrjö Engeström;
Part V. Therapy and Addiction: 24. Object relations theory and activity
theory: a proposed link by way of the procedural sequence model Anthony
Ryle; 25. The concept of sign in the work of Vygotsky, Winnicott and
Bakhtin: further integration of object relations theory and activity theory
Mikael Leiman; 26. From addiction to self-governance Anja Koski-Jannes.