Theorising the individual in an activity system

An Activity Theory Analysis of ELT Reform in Iranian Public Schools

The present study takes Engeström human activity system model (1987, 1999) as a theoretical framework to investigate the CLT-based English curriculum reform in Iran which was initiated in 2013 by the Ministry of Education in public schools. With the premise that human activity is artifact-mediated and goal-directed, activity theory makes it possible to demonstrate the complex and dynamic relati...

Multisectoral Growth and National Innovation Systems

Terje Lensberg and other participants of the NOPEC conference on "Innovations, Policy and Society" (Oslo, December 1997) are gratefully acknowledged. 2 Because of their emphasis on bounded rationality and on technology as a very special kind of good, many economists dealing with the economics of technical change and the broader field of evolutionary economics tend to apply a form of theorising ...

Marijuana Users' Semantic System of Addiction: Presenting a Grounded Theory

Objective: The present research aimed to discover the semantic system of addiction from the perspective of marijuana users. Method: The research method was grounded theory in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 young people in the city of Rasht who had a history of marijuana use, and the data were collected by theoretical-purposive sampling and analyzed with open, axial, and...

Inter-individual Variability of Coumarin 7-hydroxylation (CYP2A6 activity) in an Iranian Population

The Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Human Sperm Creatine Kinase Activity: As An ATP Buffering System in Sperm