Activity Theory

What is Activity Theory?

Resources

• Activity Theory (Wikipedia)
• The Mind, Culture, and Activity Homepage (Peggy Bengel)
• XMCA On-Line Discussions
• Laboratory of Human Cognition (UCSD)
• Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research (Yrjö Engeström)

• Lev Vygotsky Archive (Marxists.org)
• Holzman The Influence of Vygotsky and Wittgenstein
• Kerr (1997) Why Vygotsky? The Role of Theoretical Psychology in Russian Education Reform
• Worthen (2000) Studying the workplace: considering the usefulness of activity theory
• Vygotsky and Cognitive Science
• Vygotsky and Semiotics
• Vygotsky and Socio_Cultural Theory

Alexander Luria

• Luria profile (Columbia Encyclopedia)
• Luria profile (Wikipedia)
• Luria profile (Marxists.org)
• Luria profile (Douglas Bowden)
• Luria Biography (Michael Cole)
• Alexander Luria Web (Michael Cole)
• Cognitive Development Its Cultural and Social Foundations: The Problem (1974) (Courtesy, Nate Schmolze)
• Alexander Luria Archive (Marxists.org)
• Alexander Romanovich Luria web (Michael Cole)
• Cole (1997) Alexander Luria, Cultural Psychology and The Resolution of the Crisis in Psychology
• Luria and Bruner The Mind of a Mnemonist (Book announcement)

Alexei Leont'ev

• Leont'ev Biography (Marxists.org)
• Activity, Consciousness, and Personality (1978) (Mind, Culture, and Activity)
• Psychology and the Language Learning Process (1981) Ch. 3: Speech and communication pdf
• Ballantyne Leontiev's Activity Theory Approach to Psychology: Activity as the "molar unit of life" and his "levels of psyche"
• Lektorsky (1991) Activity : The Theory, Methodology and Problems (review by Birger Hjørland)

• Ilyenkov Archive(Marxists.org)
• Dialectics of the Abstract & the Concrete in Marx.s Capital (1960)

Readings

Paul Ballantyne
• Liam Bannon
• Barab, Hay, and Yamagata-Lynch (2001) Constructing Networks of Action-Relevant Episodes: An In Situ Research Methodology pdf
• Birchall and Rada Design of systems for learning and working in librarianship.
• Michael Cole
  • Brown and Cole Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities For Learning After School
  • Cole and Peleprat (2003), Mediation and Human Development: From language and thought to digital networks and virtual communities pdf
• Dunne (1995) Activity Theory (This article traces the rationale for activity theory from an historical backdrop of constructivist thought from Piaget to Vygotsky to Leont'ev.)
• Yrjö Engeström
  • Engeström home page (UCSD)
  • Engeström home page (Univ of Helsinki)
  • Engestrom interview (recorded in January, 2002 at Lancaster University, UK)
  • Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
  • Activity theory as a framework for analyzing and redesigning work (2000) pdf
  • Engeström and Middleton (1996) Cognition and Communication at Work
  • Learning by Expanding: An Activity - Theoretical Approach to Developmental Research (MCA - courtesy Lawrence Erlbaum)
  • Engestrom Learning by Expanding: Ten Years After
• Fjeld, Lauche, Bichsel, Voorhorst, Krueger and Rauterberg (2002) Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware.
• Hasu (2001) Critical transition from developers to users: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Interaction and Learning in the Innovation Process
• Peter Jones
  • The Embodied Mind: Contrasting Visions (2000)
• Kaptelinin and Nardi Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design
• Kärkkäinen Theoretical Framework of the Study: Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
• Rajkumar Activity Theory
• Lee and Roth (2004) Making a Scientist: Discursive "Doing" of Identity and Self-Presentation During Research Interviews
• Jay Lemke
  • Lemke home page
  • Across the Scales of Time: Artifacts, Activities, and Meanings in Ecosocial Systems (1998)
• Miettinen (1997) Activity Theory and Actor Network Theory
• Newman and Holzman Practice - Vygotsky's tool-and-result methodology and psychology
• Bonnie Nardi
  • Context and Consciousness (1996)
    • Book announcement (MIT Press)
  • Relationships: rules, roles, users, outcomes (John December)
  • Nardi, Whittaker, and Schwarz (2000) It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Work in the Information Age (First Monday May, 2000)
  • Bonnie's Blog
  • Blogging as a social activity ... ( notes courtesy Christopher Sessums)
• Phelps (1992) Introduction to Soviet Psychology
  • Agency and Culture (2000)
  • What Is Psychology of Liberation? It is Cultural Psychology (2002)
• Rizzo (2001) Activity Centred Professional Development and Teachers' Take-up of ICT pdf
• Roth (2003) Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives
  • book announcement
• Ryder (1999) Spinning Webs of Significance: considering anonymous communities in activity systems
• Smagorinsky (2000) If Meaning is Constructed, What's It Made of?
• Stetsenko (2005) Activity as Object-Related: Resolving the Dichotomy of Individual and Collective Planes of Activity pdf
• Tolman (2004) The Basic Vocabulary of Activity Theory
• Turner, Turner, and Horton (1999) Towards an activity-based approach to requirements definition
• Vianna and Stesenko (2006) Embracing History through Transforming It: Contasting Piagetial versus Vygotskian (Activity) Theories of Learning and Development to Expand Constructivism within a Dialectical View of History pdf
• C. Wasson (2001) Notes on Activity Theory

• Socio-Cultural Theory
• Actor-Network Theory
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Corollary Sites

September 01, 2008