Critical Perspectives on Activity: Explorations Across Education, Work, and Everyday LifePeter Sawchuk, Newton Duarte, Mohamed Elhammoumi Cambridge University Press, 16 de gen. 2006 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'. |
Continguts
Introduction Exploring Activity Across Education Work and Everyday Life | 1 |
Critical Perspectives on Theory | 21 |
Is There a Marxist Psychology? | 23 |
The CulturalHistorical Activity Theory Some Aspects of Development | 35 |
Epistemological Scepticism Complacent Irony Investigations Concerning the NeoPragmatism of Richard Rorty | 52 |
Education | 73 |
The Importance of Play in PreSchool Education Naturalisation Versus a Marxist Analysis | 75 |
Estranged Labor Learning | 89 |
Contradictory Class Relations in Work and Learning Some Resources for Hope | 145 |
From Labor Process to Activity Theory | 160 |
Values Rubbish and Workplace Learning | 193 |
Everyday Life | 209 |
Education as Mediation Between the Individuals Everyday Life and the Historical Construction of Society and Culture by Humankind | 211 |
Activity and Power Everyday Life and Development of WorkingClass Groups | 238 |
References | 269 |
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Our Working Conditions Are Our Students Learning Conditions A CHAT Analysis of College Teachers | 123 |
Work | 143 |
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