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

Chiefly selected contributions from the Second International Congress for Research on Activity Theory, held in 1990 in Lahti, Finland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Theoretical Issues: -- 1. Activity theory and individual and social transformation / Yrjo Engestrom -- 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 / Yrjo Engestrom -- Part V. Therapy and Addiction: 2 -- 4. 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.

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