Perspectives on activity theory /
edited by Yrjö Engeström, Reijo Miettinen, Raija-Leena Punamäki.
- xiii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Learning in doing .
- Learning in doing. .
Chiefly selected contributions from the Second International Congress for Research on Activity Theory, held in 1990 in Lahti, Finland.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theoretical Issues: -- Activity theory and individual and social transformation / The content and unsolved problems of activity theory / Knowledge as shared procedures / Activity theory in a new era / Society versus context in individual development: does theory make a difference? / Cultural psychology: some general principles and a concrete example / Laws logics and human activity / Collapse creation and continuity in Europe - how do people change? / Activity theory and the concept of integrative levels / The relevance to psychology of Antonio Gramsci's ideas on activity and common sense / Language and its Acquisition: -- The expanded dialogic sphere: writing activity and authoring of self in Japanese classrooms / Improvement of school children's reading and writing ability through the formation of linguistic awareness / Psychomotor and socio-emotional processes in literacy acquisition: results from an ongoing case study involving a nonvocal cerebral palsic young man / Play Learning and Instruction: -- Play and motivation / Drama games with six year old children: possibilities and limitations / Activity formation as an alternative strategy of instruction / Activity theory and historic teaching / Didactic models and the problem of intertextuality and polyphony / Metaphor and learning activity / Transcending traditional school learning: teachers' work and networks of learning / Technology and Work: -- The theory of activity changed by information technology / Activity theory transformation of work and information systems design / Innovative learning in work teams: analyzing cycles of knowledge creation in practice / Therapy and Addiction: 2 -- Object relations theory and activity theory: a proposed link by way of the procedural sequence model / The concept of sign in the work of Vygotsky, Winnicott and Bakhtin: further integration of object relations theory and activity theory / From addiction to self-governance / Yrjo Engestrom -- Vassily V. Davydov -- Stephen Toulmin -- Vladimir A. Letkorsky -- Charles W. Tolman -- Michael Cole -- Antti Eskola -- Yrjo-Paavo Hayrynen -- Eythel Tobach -- Francesco Paolo Colucci -- Yuji Moro -- Kyoshi Amano -- Matthias Bujarski Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon and Jane Kordt -- Pentti Hakkarainen -- Stig Brostrom -- Joachim Lompscher -- Mariane Hedegaard -- Jacques Carpay and Bert Van Oers -- Bernd Fichtner -- Reijo Miettinen -- Oleg K. Tikhomirov -- Kari Kuutti -- Yrjo Engestrom -- Anthony Ryle -- Mikael Leiman -- Anja Koski-Jannes. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part II. 11. 12. 13. Part III. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Part IV. 21. 22. 23. Part V. 4. 25. 26.