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Edited by Yrjö Engeström, University of California, San Diego, Reijo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Raija-Leena Punamäki, University of Helsinki

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: June 2012
Print publication year: 1999
Online ISBN: 9780511812774
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511812774

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Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its unit of analysis, thus bridging the gulf between the individual subject and the societal structure. This 1999 volume includes 26 chapters on activity theory by authors from ten countries. In Part I of the book, central theoretical issues are discussed from different points of view. Some topics addressed in this part are epistemology, methodology, and the relationship between biological and cultural factors. Part II is devoted to the acquisition and development of language. This part includes a chapter that analyzes writing activity in Japanese classrooms, and a case study of literacy skills of a man with cerebral palsy. Part III contains chapters on play, learning, and education, and Part IV addresses the meaning of technology and the development of work activities. The final part covers issues of therapy and addiction.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

List of contributors
pp x-xii

Series foreword
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-16

Part I - Theoretical issues
pp 17-18

1 - Activity theory and individual and social transformation
pp 19-38

2 - The content and unsolved problems of activity theory
pp 39-52

3 - Knowledge as shared procedures
pp 53-64

4 - Activity theory in a new era
pp 65-69

5 - Society versus context in individual development: Does theory make a difference?
pp 70-86

6 - Cultural psychology: Some general principles and a concrete example
pp 87-106

7 - Laws, logics, and human activity
pp 107-114

8 - Collapse, creation, and continuity in Europe: How do people change?
pp 115-132

9 - Activity theory and the concept of integrative levels
pp 133-146

10 - The relevance to psychology of Antonio Gramsci's ideas on activity and common sense
pp 147-162

Part II - Language and its acquisition
pp 163-164

11 - The expanded dialogic sphere: Writing activity and authoring of self in Japanese classrooms
pp 165-182

12 - Improvement of schoolchildren's reading and writing ability through the formation of linguistic awareness
pp 183-205

13 - Psychomotor and socioemotional processes in literacy acquisition: Results of an ongoing case study involving a nonvocal cerebral palsic young man
pp 206-228

Part III - Play, learning, and instruction
pp 229-230

14 - Play and motivation
pp 231-249

15 - Drama games with 6-year-old children: Possibilities and limitations
pp 250-263

16 - Activity formation as an alternative strategy of instruction
pp 264-281

17 - Activity theory and history teaching
pp 282-297

18 - Didactic models and the problem of intertextuality and polyphony
pp 298-313

19 - Metaphor and learning activity
pp 314-324

20 - Transcending traditional school learning: Teachers' work and networks of learning
pp 325-344

Part IV - Technology and work
pp 345-346

21 - The theory of activity changed by information technology
pp 347-359

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