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From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work
Author(s): Yrjö Engeström (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: April 14, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 278 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521865670
- ISBN-13: 9780521865678
Book Description
Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland over a time span of more than ten years, this book shows that teams are not a universal and ahistorical form of collaboration. Teams are best understood in their specific activity contexts and embedded in historical development of work. The book develops a set of conceptual tools for analysis and design of transformations in collaborative work and learning.
