ISBN:
0521849993
,
9780521849999
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 295 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Critical Perspectives on Activity : Explorations AcrossEducation, Work, and Everyday Life
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Culture Psychological aspects
;
Social psychology
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Exploring Activity Across Education, Work, and Everyday Life; 2 Is There a Marxist Psychology?; 3 The Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Some Aspects of Development; 4 Epistemological Scepticism, Complacent Irony: Investigations Concerning the Neo-Pragmatism of Richard Rorty; 5 The Importance of Play in Pre-School Education: Naturalisation Versus a Marxist Analysis; 6 Estranged Labor Learning
Description / Table of Contents:
7 "Our Working Conditions Are Our Students' Learning Conditions": A CHAT Analysis of College Teachers8 Contradictory Class Relations in Work and Learning: Some Resources for Hope; 9 From Labor Process to Activity Theory; 10 Values, Rubbish, and Workplace Learning; 11 Education as Mediation Between the Individual's Everyday Life and the Historical Construction of Society and Culture by Humankind; 12 Activity and Power: Everyday Life and Development of Working-Class Groups; References; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-292) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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