Critical perspectives on activity
Subtitle: explorations across education, work & everyday life
By: edited by Peter H. Sawchuk, Newton Duarte, and Mohamed Elhammoumi.
Contributors: Sawchuk, Peter H. 1968-; Duarte, Newton.; Elhammoumi, Mohamed, 1956-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780521849999
Subjects: Social psychology.; Culture -- Psychological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : exploring activity across education, work and everyday life / Peter H. Sawchuk, Newton Duarte & Mohamed Elhammoumi; title: Is there a Marxist psychology? / Mohamed Elhammoumi; title: The cultural-historical activity theory : some aspects of development / Joachim Lompscher; title: Epistemological scepticism, complacent irony : investigations concerning the neo-pragmatism of Richard Rorty / Maria Célia Marcondes de Moraes; title: The importance of play in pre-school education : naturalisation versus a Marxist analysis / Alessandra Arce; title: Estranged labor learning / Ray McDermott and Jean Lave; title: "Our working conditions are our students' learning conditions" : a CHAT; title: analysis of College Teachers Helena Worthen and Joe Berry; title: Contradictory class relations in work and learning : some resources for hope / D.W. Livingstone; title: From labor process to activity theory / Paul S. Adler; title: Values, rubbish and workplace learning / Yrjö Engeström; title: Education as mediation between the individual's everyday life and the historical construction of society and culture by humankind / Newton Duarte; title: Activity & power : everyday life and development of working-class groups / Peter H. Sawchuk.