Critical Realist Activity Theory - 9781138919396

Taylor & Francis

Critical Realist Activity TheoryAn engagement with critical realism and cultural-historical activity theory\nAuthor(s): Iskra Nunez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138919396, 978-1138919396\nSynopsis\nCritical Realist Activity Theory provides an exciting new contribution to the New Studies in Critical Realism and Education series by showing how the nature of learning is tantamount to the critical realist notion of the dialectic. The science of learning is too important to leave solely to the sciences; it needs philosophy as well. The task of this book is to take a further step and clear the conceptual field for an ontologically grounded view of the science of learning through critical realism, making use of dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of meta-Reality, as well as basic critical realism.\n\nThe objective of the book is neither to accommodate the nature of learning to strategies and techniques,.