Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory

Editors

Annalisa Sannino, University of Helsinki
Annalisa Sannino is University Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She completed her PhD in psychology at the University of Nancy in France and worked as researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Salerno in Italy. Her research is focused on discourse, experiencing, and learning in interventions in educational institutions and work organizations. She has published research articles in refereed journals in English, French, and Italian.

Harry Daniels, University of Bath
Harry Daniels is Professor of Education, Culture, and Pedagogy and Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Bath, UK. From 2002 to 2005 he has been Editor of the international journal Mind, Culture, and Activity. His research interests include sociocultural and activity theory, innovative learning in the workplace, special needs and social exclusion, and patient and career information seeking. In 2001, he published the book Vygotsky and Pedagogy, which has subsequently been translated into several languages.

Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California, Los Angeles
Kris Gutiérrez is Professor of Social Research Methodology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research interests include the study of the sociocultural contexts of literacy for language minority students. Her research also focuses on understanding the relationship between language, culture, development, and pedagogies of empowerment. In 2005, Gutiérrez received the Sylvia Scribner Award of the American Educational Research Association.

Contributors

Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels, Kris Gutierrez, Frank Blackler, David R. Russell, Wolff-Michael Roth, Vladislav A. Lektorsky, Georg Rückriem, Åsa Mäkitalo, Roger Säljö, Michael Cole, Natalia Gajdamashko, Jaakko Virkkunen, Reijo Miettinen, Shuta Kagawa, Yuji Moro, Anne Edwards, Katsuhiro Yamazumi, James R. Taylor, Sten Ludvigsen, Turi Øwre Digernes, Ritva Engeström, Susanne Bødker, Yves Clot, Yrjö Engeström