{"title":"Scaling change labs: a response to “from mediated actions to heterogenous coalitions: four generations of activity-theoretical studies of work and learning”","authors":"C. Spinuzzi","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1840594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1840594","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In “From Mediated Actions To Heterogenous Coalitions: Four Generations of Activity-Theoretical Studies of Work and Learning,” Engeström and Sannino discuss the fourth generation of activity theory as involving heterogeneous coalitions that are involved in intertwined learning cycles. They offer Change Laboratory interventions as a way to properly address learning in such coalitions. Here, I critically review this argument as offering a de facto public policy approach. I conclude by suggesting three ways to adapt Change Labs for this new scale of analysis.","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"28 1","pages":"24 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1840594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45944112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The place of interests, agency and imagination in funds of identity theory","authors":"Helen Hedges","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1833931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1833931","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Funds of identity is a recent entrant to the field of identity theories. Located within sociocultural theory, the concept developed from the notion of funds of knowledge to consider all life experiences that collectively shape identity development. It draws attention to the relationships, settings, experiences, and cultural tools and symbols that are personally meaningful to people, and ways these mediate engagement with identity development. I make two contributions to advancing funds of identity theory. First, I provide empirical evidence with respect to a very young child’s engagement with funds of identity. I report findings related to Zoe, a child who participated with her family in a qualitative project on the interests of children aged from birth-to-five years old in Auckland, New Zealand. Second, I extend funds of identity theory through arguing that agency and imagination ought to be explicit concepts in this theory given that it foregrounds the capacity for humans to act on and imagine their worlds. Interest, agency, imagination and identity are concepts that can promote the dynamic view of development Vygotsky championed, and help to explain the way ongoing sociocultural mediation determines developmental possibilities and learning trajectories.","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"28 1","pages":"111 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1833931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47855864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegel for social movements","authors":"A. Maidansky","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1833932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1833932","url":null,"abstract":"In my review, I will focus on the activist interpretation of Hegel’s Logic in Andy Blunden’s book Hegel for Social Movements. Logical categories are presented in it as objective ideal forms of huma...","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"27 1","pages":"385 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1833932","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41619615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting teachers’ task design processes. Exploring an exemplary case of the use of the activity checklist","authors":"Marcia Håkansson Lindqvist","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1830113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1830113","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The use of digital technologies continues to increase in classrooms. For teachers, this involves an increased focus on the task design process for supporting student outcomes when using these technologies. Using the Activity Theory based Evaluation Version of the Activity Checklist as a theoretical framework, this paper explores an exemplary case of the use of the Activity Checklist through the analysis of a classroom task from the perspective of the teacher task design process. The results showed that the Activity Checklist as a framework was fruitful to capture and study the teacher design process as activities, illustrating important aspects in designing tasks for student work. It is concluded that the use of the Activity Checklist may support teachers’ task design processes for motivating and supporting student outcomes related to the use of digital technologies. Further, the use of Activity Checklist can help to identify potential issues in the task design process from the teacher perspective, improve practitioners’ work and in turn provide guiding principles for educational development.","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"27 1","pages":"348 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1830113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48293591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet, B. Nardi, Antti Rajala, A. Stetsenko, J. Williams
{"title":"Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity","authors":"B. Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet, B. Nardi, Antti Rajala, A. Stetsenko, J. Williams","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1846749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1846749","url":null,"abstract":"We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio...","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"27 1","pages":"321 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1846749","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44922329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegel for social movements","authors":"John Krinsky","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1833933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1833933","url":null,"abstract":"Andy Blunden’s Hegel for Social Movements is a curious book. It is a rewarding read, partly because, as Blunden anticipates, many people in several overlapping categories – Marxists, social movemen...","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"27 1","pages":"390 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1833933","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42181902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegel for social movements","authors":"Antti Rajala, J. Williams","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1843682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1843682","url":null,"abstract":"“Anyone who is interested in social movements should study Hegel.” This is the opening statement in Andy Blunden’s book Hegel for Social Movements (2019). The book is written for oppressed people f...","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"27 1","pages":"376 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1843682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49146003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vygotsky’s theory in early childhood education and research. Russian and Western values","authors":"Jaakko Hilppö","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1830114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1830114","url":null,"abstract":"Imagine a drop of water. Next, imagine placing that drop of water on your knuckle and watching it roll down your hand. Then, a second drop of water. And a third. Each new drop might well follow the...","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"27 1","pages":"373 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1830114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48539692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Young people pursuing futures: making identity labors curricular","authors":"L. Zipin, M. Brennan, S. Sellar","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1808687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1808687","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Young people’s processes of forming identities, linked to the work of anticipating futures, involve significant labors of thought, feeling, ethics and imagination. These labors proceed across both life-worlds and school-worlds, often in tension, especially for those from marginalized positions in social-structural power relations. This paper explores such identity labors, drawing on rich ethnographic data from research, during 2013–2014, that engaged students in Years 9 and 10, from working-class, immigrant and refugee backgrounds, who attended an inner-suburban school in Melbourne, Australia. We investigate two student groupings: (a) selected by the school for “accelerated” curriculum paths; and (b) the “others” we label written off by the school in terms of academic potential (a division we diagnose as driven by policy measures of institutional “performance”). In different ways among students in each grouping, we find their identity labors to reflect historical conditions for what Berlant calls “cruel optimism” about futures. Yet their identity dynamics also draw on rich funds of knowledge from their life-worlds that our research shows to offer resources – funds of identity – for more viable future imaginaries. We argue for curriculum and pedagogy that supports young people in their identity labors to live from their present into emergent, new-generational futures.","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"28 1","pages":"152 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1808687","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49378245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From mediated actions to heterogenous coalitions: four generations of activity-theoretical studies of work and learning","authors":"Yrjö Engeström, A. Sannino","doi":"10.1080/10749039.2020.1806328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1806328","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article outlines four generations of theorizing and research on work and learning within the Finnish school of activity theory. The main focus of the paper is on the evolution of the unit of analysis through the four generations, from mediated action to a collective activity system, to multiple-interconnected activity systems, and most recently to heterogenous work coalitions aimed at resolving wicked societal problems. We examine how learning and agency are conceptualized in each generation, and what kinds of interventions are conducted in the projects presented as examples of the four generations. We conclude that the four generations of activity-theoretical studies of work and learning continue to co-exist. To meet the challenges of work in today’s world, activity theory must seriously engage in the development of its fourth generation, building on ideas and instruments developed by the preceding generations.","PeriodicalId":51588,"journal":{"name":"Mind Culture and Activity","volume":"28 1","pages":"4 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10749039.2020.1806328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43868013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}