> At 20.08 -0400 98-05-16, Eugene Matusov wrote:
> >I think that activity theory notions like goals, mediations, community
> >norms, division of labors, and so on, although useful, are too narrow and
> >not sufficient to describe the essence of human relations in
> collaboration.
> >I think Bakhtin can be a good source to think on alternatives to the
> >activity theory.
>
> Are you thinking of alternative in the sense of replacement?
>
> What I think of is combination, interweaving, transformation.
>
I don't think about replacement of AT -- I think that the activity theory
within its own limitations is great and very useful. I just think it is not
enough. Feminist approach and Bakhtin's approach (what else?) can be useful
to overcome the narrowness of AT. Of course, I expect that AT will be
changed by the "tectonic pressure" of the other approaches.
Eugene