Activity Theory in Practice Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies

Name: Activity Theory in Practice Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies
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ISBN: 9780415477253

ISBN-10: 0415477255

ISBN-13: 9780415477253

Edition: 2010

Authors: Harry Daniels, Anne Edwards, Tony Gallagher, Sten R. Ludvigsen, Yrjo Engestrï¿½m

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This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in inter-organizational fields and continuous shaping of transformations.

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/24/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Tony Gallagher is Professor of Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast, UK, where he was previously Head of the School of Education.

Intermedia, University of Oslo, Norway



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Introduction




From diagnosis to clients: constructing the object of collaborative development between physiotherapy educators and workplaces




The meaning of physical presence: an analysis of the introduction of process-optimisation software in a chemical pulp mill




Towards co-configuration in home care of the elderly: cultivating agency by designing and implementing the Mobility Agreement




Expansive learning, expansive labour: conceptualising the social production of labour-power within multi-agency working




Identifying learning in interprofessional discourse: the development of an analytic protocol




Implicit or invisible mediation in the development of interagency work




Working relationally at organisational boundaries: negotiating expertise and identity




Breaking through silence: tackling controversial barriers through interprofessional engagement




Agency vs constraint: the role of external agencies in interprofessional engagement




Adaptation and generalisation in software product development




Joint designs for working in wikis: a case of practicing across settings and modes of work



Index