Learning by Expanding: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Developmental Research - Hardcover

Engeström, Yrjö

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107074428 ISBN 13: 9781107074422

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 1987, Learning by Expanding challenges traditional theories that consider learning a process of acquisition and reorganization of cognitive structures within the closed boundaries of specific tasks or problems. Yrjö Engeström argues that this type of learning increasingly fails to meet the challenges of complex social change and fails to create novel artifacts and ways of life. In response, he presents an innovative theory of expansive learning activity, offering a foundation for understanding and designing learning as a transformation of human activities and organizations. The second edition of this seminal text features a substantive new introduction that illustrates the development and implementation of Engeström's theory since its inception.

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Book Description

Learning by Expanding challenges traditional theories that confine learning to specific tasks or problems. Yrjö Engeström argues that this approach fails to meet the challenges of social change and to create novel artifacts and ways of life. He presents an innovative theory of expansive learning activity that transforms existing social practices.

About the Author

Yrjö Engeström is Professor of Adult Education and the director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) at the University of Helsinki. He is also Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Engeström is author of From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work (Cambridge, 2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107074428
• ISBN 13: 9781107074422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 338