Activity Theory and Collaborative Intervention in Education: Expanding Learning in Japanese Schools and Communities

ISBN-13: 9780367423254 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 02/23/2021 Series: Routledge Research in Education Pages: 174 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) By applying cultural-historical activity theory and expansive learning theory to educational research, this volume illuminates new forms of educational activities as collaborative interventions in schools and communities where learners and practitioners generate expansive learning so that they can collectively transform their activities and expand their agency for themselves. It covers four cases of activity-theoretical formative intervention studies conducted in Japan, which are related to: fostering children's expansive learning in classroom lessons; teachers as collaborative change agents in redesigning schools; expanding the school activity from below; and emerging knotworking agency in community-based disaster prevention learning. This book employs activity theory as a general theoretical framework of hu