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The change laboratory : a tool for collaborative development of work and education /

A new challenge of learning in work organizations--both in business and public administration--is to master entire life cycles of product, production and business concepts. Meeting this challenge calls--at all levels of the organization--for learning that expand the learners' horizon and practi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Virkkunen, Jaakko (Autor), Newnham, Denise Shelley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rotterdam, The Netherlands : Sense Publishers, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Change Laboratory: A Tool for Collaborative Development of Workand Education; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; LIST OF BOXES; FOREWORD: FORMATIVE INTERVENTIONS FOREXPANSIVE LEARNING; REFERENCES; AUTHORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1:MEETING THE NEW CHALLENGES OF LEARNING AT WORK; HISTORICAL CHANGE IN CHALLENGES AND FORMS OF WORK-RELATED LEARNING; THE NEED FOR A NEW METHOD OF INTERVENTION IN WORK ACTIVITIES; The Concept of Intervention; The Difference between a Change Intervention and a Formative Change Laboratory Intervention.
  • Outcomes of Formative Change Laboratory InterventionsCHAPTER 2:THE CHANGE LABORATORY-AN INSTRUMENT FORAGENCY BUILDING AND EXPANSIVE LEARNING; DESCRIPTION OF THE CHANGE LABORATORY METHOD; The Setting and the Tools of the Change Laboratory; The Change Laboratory Process; Socio-Cognitive Processes Called for in the Change Laboratory; THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE CHANGE LABORATORY METHOD; The Developmental Work Research Methodology; The Change Laboratory as a Method for Carrying out DevelopmentalWork Research; CHAPTER 3:THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF THE CHANGE LABORATORY METHOD.
  • ACTIVITY SYSTEM AS THE OBJECT OF INTERVENTIONDialectical View of Development; Human Activity as a Cultural System; An Activity System in the Societal Division of Labor; The Hierarchical Structure of Human Activity; CULTURAL MEDIATORS OF ACTION AS GENERALIZATIONS; The Interplay between the Situational and the Cultural in Human Action; Levels and Types of Mediating Cultural Artifacts; Concepts as Mediators of Thinking and Acting; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AS RE-MEDIATION; Concrete, Creative Thinking; Re-mediation as a Process of Turning an Artifact into an Instrument-the Processof Double Stimulation.
  • Re-mediation in Collective Activities: Expansive Learning and Concept FormationThe Dynamics of Expansive Development of an Activity System; HISTORICAL TYPES OF WORK; CHAPTER 4:PREPARING A CHANGE LABORATORY INTERVENTION; THE THREE LEVELS OF PLANNING A CHANGE LABORATORY INTERVENTION; NEGOTIATING THE MANDATE FOR THE CHANGE LABORATORY INTERVENTION AND ANCHORING IT TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; PREPARING THE CHANGE LABORATORY PROCESS; Involving the Participants in the Change Laboratory Process; Collecting Data for the Change Laboratory Process; Outlining the sequence of Change Laboratory sessions.
  • CHAPTER 5:PREPARING AND CARRYING OUT CHANGE LABORATORY SESSIONSTHE THREE ASPECTS OF SESSION PLANNING; PARTICIPANTS' TASKS IN CHANGE LABORATORY SESSIONS; The Structure of Tasks in Change Laboratory Sessions; Planning Tasks to Stimulate the Participants to Take Expansive Learning Actions of Questioning; Planning Tasks to Stimulate the Participants to Analyze Their Activity System; Planning Tasks to Stimulate the Participants to Model the New Object and Form ofthe Activity; Planning Tasks to Stimulate the Participants to Examine and Test the New Model.