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What is Expansive Learning

Chapter 25
Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems
Expansive learning is defined by Engeström as follows: ‘Expansive learning is initiated when some individuals involved in a collective activity take the action of transforming an activity system through reconceptualization of the object and the motive of activity embracing a radically wider horizon of possibilities than in the previous mode of activity’ (Engeström 2003, pp. 30-31).
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Cultural Historical Activity Theory
Faraja Teddy Igira (University of Oslo, Norway) and Judith Gregory (Institute of Design, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-659-4.ch025
Abstract
This chapter reviews the origins, approaches and roles associated with the use of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) in information systems (IS) research. The literature is reviewed and examples are discussed from IS and related fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) and computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL), to illustrate the power of CHAT in IS research as well as its link to appropriate research methods. After explicating the value of its use, the chapter concludes by discussing theoretical and methodological implications of applications of CHAT in examining real-world problems in IS research.
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Chapter 5
Displacement and Dialogue: University-Community Engagement as an Expansive Learning Process
A process by which people engaged in an activity system (in this case, university and community partners) qualitatively transform the ways they work together productively.
Published in Chapter: Displacement and Dialogue: University-Community Engagement as an Expansive Learning Process; From: A Cultural Historical Approach to Social Displacement and University-Community Engagement: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Empowering Multilingual Learners Through Critical Liberating Literacy Practices in English-Dominated Speech Communities
The capacity of individuals involved in an activity to interpret and expand the definition of the object of activity and respond to it in increasingly enriched ways. Expansive learning involves the creation of new knowledge and new practices for a newly emerging activity: that is, learning embedded in and constitutive of qualitative transformation of the entire activity system.
Published in Chapter: Empowering Multilingual Learners Through Critical Liberating Literacy Practices in English-Dominated Speech Communities; From: Handbook of Research on Cultivating Literacy in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms
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