CHAT Cultural historical activity theory Sten Ludvigsen InterMedia University of Oslo
CHAT – InterMedia Empirical contexts – InterMedia Design experiments in schools (science, project work, social science, art history, etc) Other naturalistic settings – workplaces (hospitals, computer engineering, software development – knowledge management system in action) Video-ethnography – observations – documents – video-recordings- interview – logs,
CHAT (1) the idea of object-orientation (2) the idea of mutual constitution of actions and activity systems (3) the idea of mediation by tools and signs (4) the idea of historicity (5) the idea of multi-voicedness of activity (6) the idea of contradictions as source of change (7) the idea of zone of proximal development/expansion
Object-orientation The object The idea of radical transformation
The object LEONT’EV: THE IS NO ACTIVITY WITHOUT AN OBJECT THE OBJECT GIVES DURABLE DIRECTION AND PURPOSE TO ACTIVITY: IT IS THE TRUE MOTIVE OF ACTIVITY (NOT REDUCIBLE TO CONSCIOUS GOALS) OBJECT IS A MOVING TARGET, NEVER FULLY ACCOMPLISHED: A HORIZON OF POSSIBLE ACTIONS OBJCET IS MULTI-FACETED, A MOSAIC OF MULTIPLE INTERPRETATIONS, VOICES AND POSITIONINGS OBJECT RESISTS AND KICKS BACK
Objects-orientation– social interaction, dialogues NEW WAVE OF ATTEMPTS TO BUILD A THEORY OF LEARNING AND COGNITION ON DIALOGUE AND COMMUNICATION AS OPPOSED TO OBJECT-ORIENTATION GERRY STAHL: GROUP COGNITION (MIT Press, 2006) RUPERT WEGERIF: DIALOGIC EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY (Springer, 2007) ANNA SFARD: THINKING AS COMMUNICATING (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
CHAT VYGOTSKY vs. BAKHTIN DIALECTICS vs. DIALOGISM TOOL-MEDIATION vs. MEDIATION BY OTHER PEOPLE TIME AND HISTORY vs. SPACE AND SITUATION MATERIALITY AND MULTIMODALITY vs. SIGNS AND TALK
CHAT – objects OBJECT TENDS TO BE DESCRIBED AS FROZEN, REIFIED AND STATIC NEGLECT OF THE DYNAMICS OF OBJECTS AS UNFINISHED PROJECTS (Latour, Knorr-Cetina) OBJECTS NOT SEEN IN THEIR MOVEMENT AND TRANSFORMATIONS (compare Engeström & Blackler, 2005)
CHAT – objects OBJECT TENDS TO BE DESCRIBED AS FROZEN, REIFIED AND STATIC NEGLECT OF THE DYNAMICS OF OBJECTS AS UNFINISHED PROJECTS (Latour, Knorr-Cetina) OBJECTS NOT SEEN IN THEIR MOVEMENT AND TRANSFORMATIONS (compare Engeström & Blackler, 2005)