Critical Perspectives on Activity Sawchuk Duarte Elhammoumi Hardback

Critical Perspectives on ActivityExplorations Across Education, Work, and Everyday Life\nAuthor(s): Peter Sawchuk, Newton Duarte, Mohamed Elhammoumi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521849999, 978-0521849999\nSynopsis\nThe last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This unique collection is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl Marx played such a central role. Each author pushes this impulse further to address leading contemporary questions. It includes a diverse array of international scholars working from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, communications, industrial relations, and business studies. Broken into three main sections - education, work, and everyday life - each chapter builds from an analysis of practi.