Activity theory at CRADLE

Basic features of our approach.

It is historically grounded and longitudinal;
It focuses on object-oriented, artifact-mediated activity systems as its main unit of analysis;
It analyzes contradictions within and between activity systems as the driving force of change and development;
It constructs future-oriented zones of proximal development in activity systems;
It fosters and analyzes cycles of expansive learning, or “learning what is not yet there;”
It uses and develops formative interventions such as the Change Laboratory as central methodological resource.