LIBRARY
GLO 410: Systems Thinking: Chapter 13: Cultural Historical Activity Theory
This guide for Systems Thinking provides students with links to references from the textbook Systems Concepts in Action in addition to other resources to help develop systemic thinkers.
CHAT
"A CHAT-based inquiry combines three components:
• A systems component that helps us to construct meanings from situations
• A learning component: a method of learning from those meanings
• A developmental component that allows us to expand those meanings toward action These three components are constructed from seven basic propositions. Five relate to establishing the systems component, one relates directly to learning, and the final proposition relates to development. Out of each proposition flows a set of questions."-Systems Concepts in Action, Chapter 13
eBooks/ Articles
- Change laboratory
Alain Senteni. Change Laboratory method was developed in 1997, as a condensed way to carry out Developmental Work Research, an activity theory based methodology for studying and developing work practices in collaboration between the researcher and the practitioner. - An activity-based model of collective knowledge
Hasan, Helen M. 2003. This paper proposes a model of knowledge processes, based on the concept of "activity", i.e. what people do, as determined by the cultural-historical activity theory. - The transformation of learning : advances in cultural-historical activity theory
Oers, B. 2008. This book presents a theory of learning in cultural and historical contexts.
web video
Web Resources
- Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning
"The purpose of CRADLE is to create a strong research community with high international impact, a national and international cradle of activity-theoretical and socio-cultural research." - The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
"We are a community of interdisciplinary scholars who share an interest in the study of human mind in its cultural and historical contexts." - WEB Research
The purpose of WEB Research is to understand how adults learn at work and to use that knowledge to improve the effectiveness of any organisation.
Examples/ Case Studies
- Activity theory in formal and informal science educationPlakitsi. Katerina. 2013. "The purpose of this book is to establish a broader context for rethinking science learning and teaching by using cultural historical activity theoretic approach."