This chapter discusses a series of studies of expansive learning in formal school settings.
The theory of expansive learning puts the primacy on communities as learners, on …

A new challenge of learning in work organizations—both in business and public
administration—is to master entire life cycles of product, production and business concepts …

The authors describe an evolving theoretical framework that has been called one of the best
kept secrets of academia: cultural-historical activity theory, the result of proposals Lev …

Changes and transformations in organisations are traditionally initiated by the management.
This approach does not, however, encourage the agency of all the members in an …

Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and
learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and …

One force pulls researchers toward individual applications and separate variations of certain
general, often vague ideas. The other force pulls researchers toward learning from each …

This book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed
and applied by Yrjö Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of …

This chapter reviews the origins, approaches and roles associated with the use of cultural
historical activity theory (CHAT) in information systems (IS) research. The literature is …

Yrjö Engeström's exciting approach sees expansive learning as the central mechanism of
transformation in societal practices and institutions. For researchers and practitioners in …

For several reasons, not least because of the information and communications technological
revolution, there is an increasing need for deep qualitative transformation in business …