Critical Perspectives on Activity

Explorations Across Education, Work, and Everyday Life

Peter Sawchuk editor Newton Duarte editor Mohamed Elhammoumi editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Jan '06

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This book analyzes human learning and development understood through the concept of 'activity'.

This collection applies the interdisciplinary tradition of social, philosophical, and psychological analysis of human learning and development understood through the concept of 'activity'. It is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl Marx played such a central role.The last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This unique collection is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl Marx played such a central role. Each author pushes this impulse further to address leading contemporary questions. It includes a diverse array of international scholars working from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, communications, industrial relations, and business studies. Broken into three main sections - education, work, and everyday life - each chapter builds from an analysis of practice and learning as social cultural participation and historical change in relation to the concept of activity, contradiction, and struggle. This book offers insight into an important complex of overlapping practices and institutions to shed light on broader debates over such matters as the 'knowledge economy' and 'lifelong learning'.

ISBN: 9780521849999

Dimensions: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm

Weight: 546g

312 pages