The Transformation of Learning gives an overview of some significant advances of the cultural-historical activity theory, also known as CHAT in the educational domain. Developments are described with respect to the theoretical framework, as well as with respect to research. The book’s main focus is on the evolution of the learning concept and school practices under the influence of cultural-historical activity theory. Activity theory has contributed to this transformation of the current views on learning, both conceptually and practically. It has provided us with a useful new approach to the understanding of learning in cultural contexts.
• Represents advances in socio-cultural activity theory • Argues for a different view of learning processes in school • View of learning connects school learning and out of school learning
Contents
1. Introduction Bert van Oers; Part I. Tenets of Activity Theory: Introduction to Part I: Exploring Vygotsky's legacy: the meaning of mediation Rene van der Veer; 2. Multiple readings of Vygotsky Rene van der Veer; 3. Exploring the links between external and internal activity from a cultural-historical perspective Igor Arievich; 4. Reflections on points of departure in the development of sociocultural and activity theory Harry Daniels; 5. Language in cultural historical perspective Peter Jones; 6. The formation experiment in the age of hypermedia and distance learning Hartmut Giest; 7. Constructivism and meaning construction Ronald Arendt; 8. Subject, subjectivity, and development in cultural-historical psychology Fernando Gonzalez Rey; Part II. Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Introduction to Part II: Identity, diversity, and inclusion Wim Wardekker; 9. Identity shifts in informal learning trajectories Anne Edwards, Lin Mackenzie; 10. No human being is illegal: counter-identities in a community of undocumented Mexican immigrants Jocelyn Solis; 11. Cultural identity and immigration Beatriz Macias Gomez Estern, Josue Garcia Amian and Jose Antonio Sanchez Medina; 12. Diversity in the construction of modes of collaboration in multi-ethnic classrooms: continuity and interruption of cultural scripts Mariette de Haan and Ed Elbers; 13. 'Discourse' in collective activity systems: community responses to an 'urban regeneration partnership' in Fergusly Park, Paisley, Scotland Chik Collins; 14. Reason and dialogue in education Rupert Wegerif; Part III. Dynamics of Activity and the Variations of Learning: Introduction to Part III: Learning in social settings: challenges for sociocultural and activity theory Ed Elbers; 15. Learning activity in school and after-school communities and its framing by social conditions and personal motives Mariane Hedegaard; 16. Dialogue for reasoning among elementary school Mexican children Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, Laura Gomez and Maricela Velez; 17. What kind of tools and resources are made available to students through participation in a stident-scientist partnership program? Jrene Rahm, Wendy Naughton and John C. Moore; 18. Girls on the side-lines: 'gendered' development in early childhood classrooms Sonja de Groot Kim; 19. Inscripting predicates: semiotic activity in children's play Bert van Oers; 20. Pretend play and preschoolers Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu.
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