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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.

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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'.

Author Biography

Peter H. Sawchuk is Professor of Sociology & Equity Studies in Education as well as Industrial Relations at University of Toronto. He is the Chair of the International Advisory Committee for the Conference on Researching Work and Learning. He is also a founding member of the University of Toronto's Centre for the Study of Education and Work. Newton Duarte is a full professor in Philosophy of Education at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) in Brazil where he is the Director of the PhD Program in School Education. He holds large-scale grants from the Brazilian National Governmental Institution for Scientific and Technologic Development and has won post-Professorial honors at UNESP. Mohamed Elhammoumi is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences at the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia. He has published numerous papers on child development, cultural psychology, and the role of culture and family structures on the development of mental abilities, proportional reasoning and cognitive development including Socio-Historicocultural Psychology: Lev Semenovich Vygotsky: A Bibliographical Notes .

Table of Contents

Part I: 1. Introduction: exploring activity across education, work, and everyday life Peter H. Sawchuk, Newton Duarte and Mohamed Elhammoumi; Part II. Critical Perspectives on Theory: 2. Is there a Marxist psychology? Mohamed Elhammoumi; 3. The cultural-historical activity theory: some aspects of development Joachim Lompscher; 4. Epistemological scepticism, complacent irony: investigations concerning the neo-pragmatism of Richard Rorty Maria Celia Marcondes de Moraes; Part II. Education: 5. The importance of play in pre-school education: naturalisation versus Marxist analysis Alessandra Arce; 6. Estranged labor learning Ray McDermott and Jean Lave; 7. Our working conditions are our students' learning conditions: a CHAT analysis of college teachers Helena Worthen and Joe Berry; Part III. Work: 8. Contradictory class relations in work and learning: some resources for hope D. W. Livingstone; 9. From labor process to activity theory Paul S. Adler; 10. Values, rubbish and workplace learning Yrjö Engeström; Part IV. Everyday Life: 11. Education as mediation between the individual's everyday life and the historical construction of society and culture by humankind Newton Duarte; 12. Activity and power: everyday life and development of working-class groups Peter H. Sawchuk.

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

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

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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.

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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.

Details ISBN0521849993 Short Title CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACTIV Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521849993 ISBN-13 9780521849999 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 302 Year 2006 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Explorations Across Education, Work, and Everyday Life Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Peter Sawchuk Author Mohamed Elhammoumi DOI 10.1604/9780521849999 UK Release Date 2006-01-16 AU Release Date 2006-01-16 NZ Release Date 2006-01-16 Illustrations 4 Tables, unspecified; 15 Line drawings, unspecified Pages 312 Publication Date 2006-01-16 Alternative 9780511509568 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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