CONTENTS
List of contributors = ⅹ
Series foreword = xiii
Introduction / Yrj o ·· Engestrom ; Reijo Miettinen = 1
Part Ⅰ Theoretical issues
1 Activity theory and individual and social transformation / rj o ·· Engestrom = 19
2 The content and unsolved problems of activity theory / Vassily V. Davydov = 39
3 Knowledge as shared procedures / Stephen Toulmin = 53
4 Activity theory in a new era / Vladimir A. Lektorsky = 65
5 Society versus context in individual development : Does theory make a difference? / Charles W. Tolman = 70
6 Cultural psychology : Some general principles and a concrete example / Michael Cole = 87
7 Laws, logics, and human activity / Anlli Eskola = 107
8 Collapse, creation, and continuity in Europe : How do people change? / Yrjo-Paavo Hayrynen = 115
9 Activity theory and the concept of integrative levels / Ethel Tobach = 133
10 The relevance to psychology of Antonio Gramsci's ideas on activity and common sense / Francesco Paolo Colucci = 147
Part Ⅱ Language and its acquisition
11 The expanded dialogic sphere : Writing activity and authoring of self in Japanese classrooms / Yuji Moro = 165
12 Improvement of schoolchildren's reading and writing ability through the formation of linguistic awareness / Kyoshi Amano = 183
13 Psychomotor and socioemotional processes in literacy acquisition : Results of an ongoing case study involving a nonvocal cerebral palsic young man / Matthias Bujarski ; Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon ; Jan Kordt = 206
Part Ⅲ Play, learning, and instruction
14 Play and Motivation / Pentti Hakkarainen = 231
15 Drama games with 6-year-old children : Possibilities and limitations / Stig Brostrom = 250
16 Activity formation as an alternative strategy of instruction / Joachim Lompscher = 264
17 Activity theroy and history teaching / Mariane Hedegaard = 282
18 Didactic models and the problem of intertextuality and ployphony / Jacfques Carpay ; Bert Van Oers = 298
19 Metaphor and lerning activity / Bernd Fichtner = 314
20 Transcending traditional school learning : Teachers' Work and networks of learning / Reijo Miettinen = 325
Part Ⅳ Technology and work
21 The theory of activity changed by information technology / Oleg K. Tikkomirov = 347
22 Activity theroy, transformation of work, and information systems design / Kari Kuutti = 360
23 Innovative learning in work teams : Analyzing cycles of knowledge creation in practice / Yrjo Engestrom = 377
Part Ⅴ Therapy and addiction
24 Object relations theory and activity theory : A proposed link by way of the procedural sequence model / Anthony Ryle = 407
25 The concept of sign in the work of Vygotsky, Winnicott, and Bakhtin : Further integration of object relations theory and activity theory / Mikael Leiman = 419
26 From addiction to self-governance / Anja Koski-j a ·· nnes = 435
Author index = 445
Subject index = 452
