It's hard to get a copy of LEARNING BY EXPANDING. Let me just say that the
mediational means involved a copy machine. Here are some other of his more
accessible studies, in both senses of the the word, in the order in which I
would read them if I were just starting out. Yrjo is also on the list, so
you can ask him yourself.
Engestrom, Y. (1993). Developmental studies on work as a testbench of
activity theory. In S. Chaiklin & J. Lave (Eds.),
Understanding practice: Perspectives on activity and context..
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cole, M. & Engestrom, Y. (1993). A cultural-historical
interpretation of distributed cognition. G. Salomon (Ed.),
Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and educational
considerations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Engestrom, Y. (1991). Non scolae sed vitae discimus:
Toward overcoming the encapsulation of school learning.
Learning and Instruction, 1, 243-259.
The next one is also hard to get hold of, but full of fascinating empirical
studies:
Engestrom, Y. (1990). Learning, working and imagining:
Twelve studies in activity theory. Helsinki: Orienta-Konsultit
.
David R. Russell
English Department
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
USA (515) 294-4724,fax 294-6814
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