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Activity Theory in Practice Promoting Learning across Boundaries and Agencies

Daniels, Harry; Edwards, Anne; Engestrom, Yrjo; Gallagher, Tony; Ludvigsen, Sten
ISBN-10: 0415477255
ISBN-13: 9780415477253

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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.
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List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
From diagnosis to clients: constructing the object of collaborative development between physiotherapy educators and workplaces
The meaning of physical presence: an analysis of the introduction of process-optimisation software in a chemical pulp mill
Towards co-configuration in home care of the elderly: cultivating agency by designing and implementing the Mobility Agreement
Expansive learning, expansive labour: conceptualising the social production of labour-power within multi-agency working
Identifying learning in interprofessional discourse: the development of an analytic protocol
Implicit or invisible mediation in the development of interagency work
Working relationally at organisational boundaries: negotiating expertise and identity
Breaking through silence: tackling controversial barriers through interprofessional engagement
Agency vs constraint: the role of external agencies in interprofessional engagement
Adaptation and generalisation in software product development
Joint designs for working in wikis: a case of practicing across settings and modes of work
Index
Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy, and Head of the Policy and Management Research Group, at the University of Bath, UK.Harry Daniels is Professor of Education: Culture and Pedagogy, Head of the Learning as Cultural and Social Practice Research Programme, and Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Bath, UK.Michael Young is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, Visiting Professor at the University of Bath and is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Witwatersrand and Capital Normal University, Beijing.Maria Balarin is Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK.John Lowe is Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK.





Edition: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.88 lbs.
Language: English

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