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collective transformationexpansive learningformative interventionsactivity systemscross-boundary collaborationtransformative agencyBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Engeström brings together studies that develop expansive learning as a theory of collective transformation in work and organisations. The central problem is how people learn when they face persistent contradictions and must construct an activity that does not yet exist.
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Cultural-historical activity theory analyses the shared object of work together with mediating tools, rules, community, and division of labour. Across intervention studies, participants surface disturbances, examine the historical formation of problems, model alternatives, test and implement new practices, and build agency to sustain them. The cases show that expansion can cross organisational and professional boundaries and that learning trajectories contain conflict, setbacks, partial advances, and competing interpretations. Formative interventions therefore do not simply deliver an expert-designed solution; they provide conceptual and representational tools through which practitioners analyse and redesign their own activity.
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