From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

Engeström, Yrjö

ISBN 10: 0521865670 / ISBN 13: 9780521865678

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

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GOOD hardcover in VERY GOOD dust jacket, 10 pages have some pencil underlining, rest of text clean; tight binding, clean exterior.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521865670
• ISBN 13: 9780521865678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland over a time span of more than ten years, this book shows that teams are not a universal and ahistorical form of collaboration. Teams are best understood in their specific activity contexts and embedded in historical development of work. The book develops a set of conceptual tools for analysis and design of transformations in collaborative work and learning.

About the Author

Yrjö Engeström earned his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 1987. He is a Professor of Adult Education and Director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) at the University of Helsinki. He is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where he also served as Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition from 1990 to 1995. Engeström applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for the study of transformations and learning processes in work activities and organizations. He is widely known for his theory of expansive learning and for the methodology of developmental work research.