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. To understand and master
this transition, powerful new conceptual tools are needed and are
provided here.
The theoretical framework which has shaped these studies is
Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). CHAT analyses how
people and organisations learn to do something new, and how both
individuals and organisations change. The theoretical and
methodological tools used have their origins in the work of Lev
Vygotsky and A.N. Leont ev. In recent years this body of work has
aroused significant interest across the social sciences, management
and communication studies.
Working as part of an integrated international team, the authors
identify specific findings which are of direct interest to the
academic community, such as:
- the analysis of vertical learning between operational and
strategic levels within complex organizations;
- the refinement of notions of identity and subject position
within CHAT;
- the introduction of the concept of labour power into CHAT;
- the development of a method of analysing discourse which
theoretically coheres with CHAT and the design of projects.
Activity Theory in Practice will be highly useful to
practitioners, researchers, students and policy-makers who are
interested in conceptual and empirical issues in all aspects of
activity-based research.
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