1. Units and Motives in Activity Theory A Talk by Andy Blunden 22 nd February 2011

2. Thinking and Speech Development of Speech Development of Intellect (Concepts) Pre-Intellectual Speech and Pre-verbal Intelligence Thinking which is beyond words speechconcepts Communicative Speech “Thinking aloud” Inner Speech Pseudo- and Potential Concepts “True” Concepts

3. Vygotsky’s Method Thinking and Speech Word Meaning

4. Vygotsky’s Method Thinking and Speech Word Meaning Joint, artefact-mediated Action

5. Perezhivanie Perezhivanie (переживаний)

6. Social Situation of Development

7. Inside/Outside

8. The General Concept of Activity Vygotsky’s Concept of Activity

9. The General Concept of Activity Herder – Fichte – Hess – Marx

10. The General Concept of Activity “Everything is...

11. Hans-Georg Gadamer On Documents and Traditions

12. Hans-Georg Gadamer “... When we try to understand a text, we do not try to transpose ourselves into the author’s mind but we try to transpose ourselves into the perspective within which he has formed his views. But this simply means that we try to understand how what he is saying could be right. If we want to understand, we will try to make his arguments even stronger.” On Documents and Traditions

13. Motivation as a problem for Vygotsky

14. An Activity Object

15. An Activity Immanent in the project itself

16. Levels and Systems of Activity A. N. Leontyev An Activity An Action An Operation social need

17. UnitDescriptionObject activityindividual participates and is aware of motive has social motive, independent of the will of any individual motive continues throughout, realized through various goals actionconsciously controlled by individual oriented to individual’s goal, collectively realizes activity goal of action may not be same as motive of activity it realizes operationnot consciously motivated realization of action, selection depends on conditions autonomously flows from will to action Leontyev’s Three-Level Anatomy of Activity

18. Levels and Systems of Activity Yrjö Engeström

19. What is an Activity?

21. Motivation under capitalism Exchange Command & Obey Collaboration

22. Any Questions?