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- Vol 2 RE: App F
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expansive learningcultural-historical activity theoryactivity systemssystemic contradictionscollective agencyactivity transformationBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
This second edition presents Engeström’s theory of expansive learning, developed to explain learning in collective activity when the required knowledge or practice is not already available. Cultural-historical activity theory treats the unit of analysis as an activity system linking subject, object, tools, community, rules, and division of labour.
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Historically accumulated contradictions within and between these elements produce disturbances and conflicts, but can also drive transformation. Expansive learning involves questioning existing practice, analysing its history and tensions, modelling a new solution, examining and testing that model, implementing it, reflecting on the process, and consolidating a changed activity. The sequence is cyclical and contested rather than a fixed recipe. The revised edition develops the framework through later research and clarifies how participants expand the shared object and build collective agency.
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For education and organisational development, it shifts attention from transmitting predetermined answers toward collaboratively creating new, system-level forms of activity.
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