This MOOC provides an advanced introduction to Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) based on videorecorded sessions with foremost experts from around the world. Each course module is devoted to a specific concept and key readings related to that concept. Participants engage in online discussions by posting comments on the course materials. An outline of the sessions and the corresponding contents of the MOOC modules is presented in the following:
Module 1: Four generations of CHAT
Module 2: The object of activity
Module 3: Activism and Trans/Formative Methodology in CHAT
Module 4: Dialectics and the germ cell
Module 5: Contradictions
Module 6: CHAT conceptions of culture and development
Module 7: Historicity
Module 8: Artifacts and instrumentality
Session 9: Expansive learning
Module 10: Transformative agency
- Teacher
Annalisa Sannino, Pauliina Rantavuori