activityTheory

Activity theory is aimed at understanding the mental capabilities of a single human being. However, it rejects the //isolated// human being as an adequate unit of analysis, focusing instead on cultural and technical mediation of human activity

Roots in Vygotsky, developed by Leont'ev - [|wikipedia]

Yrjö Engeström, Professor: Professor of Adult Education and Director of the Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research at University of Helsinki [|Activity Theory and Individual and Social Transformation] by Yrjö Engeström [|Activity theory as a framework for analysing and redesigning work] [|Learning by Expanding: An Activity - Theoretical Approach to Developmental Research]