Yrjo Engestrom (University of Helsinki)

Learning by Expanding

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781107074422
• ISBN-10: 1107074428
• Artikelnr.: 41609531

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning
3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research
4. The instruments of expansion
5. Toward an expansive methodology
6. Epilogue.