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Studies in Expansive Learning: Learning What Is Not Yet There
Yrjo Engestrom
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Description for Studies in Expansive Learning: Learning What Is Not Yet There
Hardback. BIC Classification: JNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Yrjoe Engestroem's exciting approach sees expansive learning as the central mechanism of transformation in societal practices and institutions. For researchers and practitioners in education, this book provides a conceptual and practical toolkit for creating and analyzing expansive learning processes with the help of interventions in workplaces, schools and communities. Chapters 1-3 situate the theory of expansive learning in the field of learning science. Chapters 4-8 contain empirical studies of expansive learning in various organizational settings (such as banks, schools and hospitals). In Chapters 9-10, the author looks at new challenges and possibilities arising from rapidly spreading 'wildfire' activities (disaster relief, ... Read more
Yrjoe Engestroem's exciting approach sees expansive learning as the central mechanism of transformation in societal practices and institutions. For researchers and practitioners in education, this book provides a conceptual and practical toolkit for creating and analyzing expansive learning processes with the help of interventions in workplaces, schools and communities. Chapters 1-3 situate the theory of expansive learning in the field of learning science. Chapters 4-8 contain empirical studies of expansive learning in various organizational settings (such as banks, schools and hospitals). In Chapters 9-10, the author looks at new challenges and possibilities arising from rapidly spreading 'wildfire' activities (disaster relief, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107105201
SKU
V9781107105201
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Ref
99-3
About Yrjo Engestrom
Yrjoe Engestroem is Professor of Adult Education and 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. Engestroem applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for the study of transformations and learning processes in work activities ... Read more
Reviews for Studies in Expansive Learning: Learning What Is Not Yet There
'This is a very important book. It brings together some of the most significant papers in Engestroem's archive and provides them with a new introduction and rationale. In his first chapter he also muses on the possible future of the learning sciences. This prospective view is grounded in the legacy that is so well captured and explicated in the rest ... Read more