From Teams to Knots

Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

AvYrjö Engeström

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Del i serien Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

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Beskrivning

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 Finland over a time span of more than 10 years, this book shows that teams are not a universal and ahistorical form of collaboration. Teams are best understood in their specific activity contexts and embedded in historical development of work. Today, static teams are increasingly replaced by forms of fluid knotworking around runaway objects that require and generate new forms of expansive learning and distributed agency. This book develops a set of conceptual tools for analysis and design of transformations in collaborative work and learning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-12
Mått:150 x 226 x 18 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521148498

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Organisationsteori inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Yrjö Engeström earned his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 1987. He is a Professor of Adult Education and Director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) at the University of Helsinki. He is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where he also served as Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition from 1990 to 1995. Engeström applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for the study of transformations and learning processes in work activities and organizations. He is widely known for his theory of expansive learning and for the methodology of developmental work research.

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'… rich in data and conceptual analysis … admirable scholarship …' Mike Bonner, PsycCRITIQUES

Innehållsförteckning

1. Teams and the transformation of work; 2. Disturbance management and masking in a television production team; 3. Teamwork between adversaries: coordination, cooperation, and communication in a court trial; 4. Displacement and innovation in primary care medical teams; 5. Crossing boundaries in teacher teams; 6. Knowledge creation in industrial work teams; 7. Teams, infrastructures, and social capital; 8. From iron cages to webs on the wind; 9. Knotworking and agency in fluid organizational fields.