Reflections on activity theory

Preservice EAL teaching as emotional experiences: Practicum experience in an Australian secondary school

“…Vygotsky argues that higher mental functioning and human action are mediated by artefacts, especially psychological tools, or signs and are object-oriented. Vygotsky' concept of mediation, which includes subject, mediating artefacts, and object, is often referred to as the first generation of activity theory (Bakhurst, 2009;Engeström, 1987;Lantolf & Thorne, 2006;Smidt, 2009). However, according to Engeström and Miettinen (1999), the exclusive focus of the first generation of activity on the individual performing actions rather than the idea of historicity and the collective nature of human activity makes it problematic, especially when it is considered as an attempt to understand the sociocultural context of the action.…”

The Education System in Mexico

“…The first relates to whether meaning resides in the object itself or is created in conjunction with or through the interaction between subject and object. The second relates to the idealist tendencies in Vygotsky's thought (see also Bakhurst, 2009). The third issue is that all these mediating devices are expected to work in the same way, even though they have different grammars and constitutions.…”

A produção de sentidos intergeracional de homens sobre o planejamento familiar

“…As pessoas usam esses constituintes para regular os acordos interpessoais que se dirigirem a vozes no diálogo com as linguagens sociais e internas do interlocutor. O encontro entre as pessoas provoca algo no meio que chamamos de intersubjetividade, em que as pessoas se transformam porque o outro está presente no aquie-agora, e qualquer mudança do cenário e pessoas presentes naquela intersubjetividade, conduziria a outras transformações, regulações, conflitos, negociações, reciprocidades na construção de si (Bakhurst, 2009;Leonti'ev, 1978).…”

“…Buscaremos relacionar a teoria de posicionamento (Davies & Harré, 2007, Harré, Moghaddam, Cairnie, Rothbart & Sabat, 2009) e a Teoria da Atividade (Bakhurst, 2009;Engeström, 2006Engeström, , 2009Leonti'ev, 1978Leonti'ev, , 1992Magnusson & Stattin, 2006 sobre como ele representa a si nas mudanças ocorridas na sociedade contemporânea (Marcondes, 2008).…”

“…Na elaboração da presente tese, enfocamos os signos que se concretizam nas interações, em semioses, em composições multimodais da linguagem entre os interlocutores (v.g. Bakhurst, 2009;v.g. Iedema, 2003).…”