Re: AERA/International

Yrjo Engestrom (yengestr who-is-at ucsd.edu)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:15:00 -0800

Mike and Pedro, I'd be eager to have (or co-organize) an AERA session on
'Using activity theory as toolkit in school transformation' or something
alike. In Helsinki, we've been working since last fall in a middle school
in which over 30% of students are refugees and immigrants. We conducted an
intensive Change Laboratory process over a period of ten weeks, and after
that the teachers and students have been implementing their transformation
projects in practice - and we've been following and documenting the
process.

I know that Monica Nilsson in Sweden is using activity theory to understand
and push forward a transformation process in a Swedish primary school.

Are there others interested and willing to contribute?

Cheers,

Yrjo Engestrom