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67From Habituality to Change: Contribution of Activity Theory and Pragmatism to Practice TheoriesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 42 (3): 345-360. 2012.The new social theories of practice have been inspired by Wittgenstein's late philosophy, phenomenology and more recent sociological theories. They regard embodied skills and routinized, mostly unconscious habits as a key foundation of human practice and knowledge. This position leads to an overstatement of the significance of the habitual dimension of practice. As several critics have suggested this approach omits the problems of transformative agency and change of practices. In turn classical …Read more
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11Dynamics of Change in Research Work: Constructing a New Research Area in a Research GroupScience, Technology, and Human Values 26 (3): 300-321. 2001.The authors study how an aerosol technology research group constructed a research agenda for itself and how its activity was changed in the process. The group's research agenda was heterogeneous, comprising several research areas in which the knowledge of aerosols was applied in different industrial contexts. The authors analyze the development of one of these areas, the research on the production of ultrafine particles from 1992 to 1997, employing the concept of mediated activity that has been …Read more
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35Pragmatism and activity theory: Is Dewey's philosophy a philosophy of cultural retooling?Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 8 (2): 3-19. 2006.A philosopher of education, Jim Garrison, has suggested that John Dewey's philosophy is a philosophy of cultural retooling and that Dewey adopted both his conception of work and the idea of tool as "a middle term between subject and object” from Hegel. This interpretation raises the question of what the relationship of the idea of cultural retooling in Dewey’s work is to his naturalism and to his allegiance to Darwinian biological functionalism. To deal with this problem, this paper analyzes how…Read more
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29Contradictions of high-technology capitalism and the emergence of new forms of workIn Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels & Kris D. Gutierrez (eds.), Learning and expanding with activity theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 160--175. 2009.
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Suspassing the traditional school learning: teachers work and the networks of learningIn Yrjö Engeström, Reijo Miettinen & Raija-Leena Punamäki-Gitai (eds.), Perspectives on activity theory, Cambridge University Press. 1999.
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22Epistemological, Artefactual and Interactional–Institutional Foundations of Social Impact of Academic ResearchMinerva 53 (3): 257-277. 2015.Because of the gross difficulties in measuring the societal impact of academic research, qualitative approaches have been developed in the last decade mostly based on forms of interaction between university and other societal stakeholders. In this paper, we suggest a framework for qualitative analysis based on the distinction between three dimensions of societal impact: epistemological, artefactual and interactive-institutional. The epistemological dimension addresses what new research results a…Read more
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1320 Transcending traditional school learning: Teachers' work and networks of learningIn Yrjö Engeström, Reijo Miettinen & Raija-Leena Punamäki-Gitai (eds.), Perspectives on activity theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 325. 1999.
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1Activity theory: A well-kept secretIn Yrjö Engeström, Reijo Miettinen & Raija-Leena Punamäki-Gitai (eds.), Perspectives on activity theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--16. 1999.
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83Epistemology of transformative material activity: John Dewey's pragmatism and cultural-historical activity theoryJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 36 (4). 2006.The paper compares John Dewey's pragmatism and cultural-historical activity theory as epistemologies and theories of transformative material activity. For both of the theories, the concept of activity, the prototype of which is work, constitutes a basis for understanding the nature of knowledge and reality. This concept also implies for both theories a methodological approach of studying human behavior in which social experimentation and intervention play a central role. They also suggest that r…Read more
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40Perspectives on activity theory (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1999.Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its unit of analysis, thus bridging the gulf between the individual subject and the societal structure. This volume is the first comprehensive presentation of contemporary work in activity theory, with 26 original chapters by authors from ten countr…Read more
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Researcher
Helsinki, Finland
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |