Learning and expanding with activity theory / edited by Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels, Kris D. Gutiérrez.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-357) and indexes.

Editors' introduction -- Activity theory between historical engagement and future-making practice / Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels, and Kris Gutiérrez -- Units of analysis -- Cultural-historical activity theory and organization studies / Frank Blackler -- Uses of activity theory in written communication research / David R. Russell -- On the inclusion of emotions, identity, and ethico-moral dimensions of actions / Wolff-Michael Roth -- Mediation and discourse -- Mediation as a means of collective activity / Vladislav A. Lektorsky -- Digital technology and mediation : a challenge to activity theory / Georg Rückriem -- Contextualizing social dilemmas in institutional practices : negotiating objects of activity in labour market organizations / Åsa Mäkitalo and Roger Säljö -- Expansive learning and development -- The concept of development in cultural-historical activity theory : vertical and horizontal / Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamashko -- Two theories of organizational knowledge creation / Jaakko Virkkunen -- Contradictions of high-technology capitalism and the emergence of new forms of work / Reijo Miettinen -- Spinozic reconsiderations of the concept of activity : politico-affective process and discursive practice in the transitive learning / Shuta Kagawa and Yuji Moro -- Subjectivity, agency, and community -- From the systemic to the relational : relational agency and activity theory / Anne Edwards -- Expansive agency in multi-activity collaboration / Katsuhiro Yamazumi -- The communicative construction of community : authority and organizing / James R. Taylor -- Research leadership : productive research communities and the integration of research fellows / Sten Ludvigsen and Turi Øwre Digernes -- Interventions -- Who is acting in an activity system? / Ritva Engeström -- Past experiences and recent challenges in participatory design research / Susanne Bødker -- Clinic of activity : the dialogue as instrument / Yves Clot -- The future of activity theory : a rough draft / Yrjö Engeström.