Activity Theory and Collaborative Intervention in Education

Abstract

This book by Dr. Katsuhiro Yamazumi, a leading Japanese expert on cultural-historical activity theory, offers a theoretical discussion of practice-building through practitioner-re-searcher collaboration. The work presents a new mode of educational research based on cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning—a mode of educational research that creates a place for achieving the kind of expansive learning that allows children and teachers (the “parties concerned” of educational practice) to collectively reform their practices, acquire agency, and expand; educational research whereby the creation of this place is achieved by researchers in collaboration with the parties concerned through designing and re-designing practices. Here I examine the content of this book from my perspective in support of the learning and development of children and teachers through pedagogical approaches to school education practices.