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Activity Theory: A critical overview de Andy Blunden

Activity Theory: A critical overview: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, cartea 256

Autor Andy Blunden
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 apr 2023
Andy Blunden completes his immanent critique of Activity Theory, begun in 2010 with An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity. A summary of the ontological foundations of Activity Theory introduces a critical review of the work of activity theorists across the world with a focus of applications in medical and educational contexts, and concluded with a review of the ethics of collaboration. Blunden expands the domain of Activity Theory to address the pressing problems facing humanity today and activities lacking in clear objects, collaboration in voluntary projects and social movements, the life projects of individuals and emerging practices. Blunden brings an understanding of Marxist and Hegelian philosophy to bear on the application of Activity Theory to problems of social change.
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ISBN-13: 9789004541238
ISBN-10: 9004541233
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Notă biografică

Andy Blunden is an independent scholar in Melbourne, Australia, who has written on Activity Theory, collaboration and collective decision making, social movements and Hegelian philosophy. Andy is Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive, and former editor of Mind, Culture & Activity.

Cuprins

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Part 1
Basic Principles of Activity Theory
1Introduction
1 Behaviour, Consciousness and Activity

2 Substance, Monism and Dualism

3 Continuity and Discontinuity

4 Actions, Goals and Motives
4.1Operations


5 Artefacts
5.1Words, Tools and Signs


6 Activities
6.1What Is an Activity?

6.2Activities Which Fall Short of Leontyev’s Ideal-Typical Activity


7 Motivation
7.1The “Unconscious”?


8 The Genealogy of Activity Theory

9 Activity Theory and Vygotsky’s Socio-cultural Theory

10 Germ Cell and Unit of Analysis

11 Activities and Concepts

12 Abstract and Concrete

13 Analysis by Units and Analysis by Elements
13.1Monism Again


14 Subject, Object and Participant Research

15 Activities Have a Life Cycle

16 The Context of Activities
16.1The Immediate and Societal Contexts of Activities

16.2The Historical Context of Activities


17 Perezhivanie

18 The Development of the Personality

19 Narrative Analysis

20 Summary: Motivation


Part 2
Diverse Research in Activity Theory
Introduction to Part 2

2Building Institutions
1 A Child Learning to Read.
1.1Question Asking Reading (King, Griffin, et al.)

1.2Putting Academic Knowledge to Work


2 Vasilyuk’s Work on Resolving “Impossible Situations”
2.1Types of “Life-World”

2.2 Types of Perezhivanie


3 A Wage Worker Employed in a Capitalist Firm


3Activities Characterised by a Narrative
1 The Life Course of an Individual Person
1.1Luria’s Romantic Science


2 The Narrative of a Patient Visiting a Hospital and Receiving Treatment
2.1The Story of a Female Trainee Surgeon Who Chooses to Leave Training

2.2A Medical Student in Their First Months as a Hospital Doctor


3 The History of a Practice, Such as a Science or Profession


4Transformative Projects
1 The Activist Stance
1.1Agency
1.1.1 Vygotsky on Self-Control

1.1.2 Sannino on Collective Decision Making

1.1.3 Gutierrez on Transgression

1.1.4 Stetsenko on Agency

1.1.5 Holland and Edwards on Relational Agency

1.1.6 Horton on Freedom

1.1.7 Discussion


2 The Germ Cell of a New Practice
2.1 Marx’s Use of the Idea of a Germ Cell or Unit in Capital
2.1.1 The Introduction of Trade into a Traditional Society


2.2Vygotsky Made Word Meaning a Unit of Analysis
2.2.1 Concepts and Activities


2.3Vasily Davydov’s Mathematics Curriculum


5Intervening with Activity Theory
1 Transforming Activities with a Germ Cell
1.1The Sit-to-Stand Exercise

1.2Junior Doctors Using Purple Pen for Prescribing

1.3Collaborative Learning Spaces

1.4The “Root Model” for Teaching Topics in School


6Political Life
1 A Trade Union Organising Workers in an Enterprise

2 Rival Political Parties Competing for Government of the Country
2.1Elections

2.2The Formation of Public Opinion


7Social Movements
1 The Women’s Liberation Movement
1.1The Life Cycle of the wlm

1.2The wlm as a Learning Process

1.3Decision Making within Projects

1.4Transforming the Object-Concept

1.5Relations between Projects

1.6The Urpraxis of a Movement


8Incoherent Activities
1Activities Characterised by a Shared Motif
1.1The Solar Punk Youth Movement

1.2The Anti-vax Campaign against Public Health Measures


9Formative Interventions
1 Construction of Utopian Forms of Activity as Educational Artefacts
1.1Mike Cole et al.’s 5th Dimension

1.2Aydin Bal’s Learning Lab

1.3Fernanda Liberali’s lace


2 Postcolonial Projects


10Ethics
1 The Ethics of Collaboration
1.1Social Science and Ethics

1.2Modern Ethics
1.2.1 Religion and Ethics

1.2.2 John Rawls’ Political Liberalism

1.2.3 Habermas’s Communicative Ethics

1.2.4 Seyla Benhabib

1.2.5 Amartya Sen

1.2.6 Agnes Heller

1.2.7 Alasdair MacIntyre

1.2.8 Thick and Thin Ethos


1.3Collaborative Ethics

1.4Participant Researchers


2 Social Class

3The Urpraxis of Socialism
3.1The Worldwide Anti-capitalist Struggle


Conclusion


References

Index