units and motives in activity theory a talk by andy blunden 22 nd february 2011
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Units and Motives Units and Motives in Activity Theoryin Activity Theory
A Talk by Andy Blunden 22nd February 2011
Thinking and Thinking and SpeechSpeech
Developm
ent of Speech
Developm
ent of Intellect (Concepts)
Pre-Intellectual Speech and Pre-verbal Intelligence
Thinking which is beyond words
speech concepts
Communicative Speech
“Thinking aloud”
Inner Speech
Pseudo- and Potential
Concepts
“True” Concepts
Vygotsky’s MethodVygotsky’s MethodThinking and Speech
Word Meaning
Vygotsky’s MethodVygotsky’s MethodThinking and Speech
Word Meaning
Joint, artefact-mediated Action
PerezhivaniePerezhivanie(переживаний)
Social Situation of Social Situation of DevelopmentDevelopment
Social Situation of Social Situation of DevelopmentDevelopment
Inside/Inside/OutsideOutside
The General The General ConceptConcept
of Activityof Activity
Vygotsky’s Concept of Activity
The General The General ConceptConcept
of Activityof ActivityHerder – Fichte – Hess
– Marx
The General The General ConceptConcept
of Activityof Activity
“Everything is ...
Hans-Georg GadamerHans-Georg GadamerOn Documents and Traditions
Hans-Georg GadamerHans-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
Motivation as a Motivation as a problem for Vygotskyproblem for Vygotsky
An ActivityAn Activity
Object
An ActivityAn Activity
Immanent in the project itself
Levels and Systems of Levels and Systems of ActivityActivity
A. N. Leontyev
An Activity
An Action
An Operation
social need
Unit Description Object
activity individual participates and is aware of motive
has social motive, independent of the will of any individual
motive continues throughout, realized through various goals
action consciously controlled by individual
oriented to individual’s goal, collectively realizes activity
goal of action may not be same as motive of activity it realizes
operation not consciously motivated
realization of action, selection depends on conditions
autonomously flows from will to action
Leontyev’s Three-Level Anatomy of Activity
Levels and Systems of Levels and Systems of ActivityActivity
Yrjö Engeström
What is What is anan Activity? Activity?
What is What is anan Activity? Activity?
Motivation under Motivation under capitalismcapitalismExchang
e
Command& Obey
Collaboration
Any Questions?Any Questions?