This paper deals with the theory of the social genesis of higher mental functions (HMF) developed by Vуgotsky and Luria. Their systemic cultural-historical approach, the first premise of developmental neuropsychology, stresses the influence of social and cultural factors on the child’s cognitive development, the social nature of function formation, and the role of mediation (the use of social m...

This paper traces the development of technology as a discourse and as a way of understanding human activity. In our everyday activity, the notion of technology is often consumed by its purely practical, equipmental, interpretation. Such an interpretation assumes the cultural neutrality of technical things, fully justifying the equivocation of the technical with the technological. Since the 1950...

In businesses, government departments and educational institutions, most innovative knowledge creation is achieved, not at the organisational or individual level, but in communities of people who have come together with a common interest. This paper describes a sequence of cases from a research project on the development of socio-technical systems, which support geographically dispersed communi...

This article explores the budding scholarship related to decolonisation of South African curriculum, by making use third-generation Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a lens. In authors advocate for indigenous knowledge vehicle curriculum transformation. The has binomial nature, in so far that first section considers higher education through infusion knowledge, CHAT. last reflects on...

Intensification of education in a higher educational establishment is an overall problem nowadays. Educational activity impossible to imagine without speech intellectual activity. Language tool reflect linguistic meaning. The idea the methodology based on one five tenets which outline Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, namely “general law social development”. part teacher reflected within met...

Research and Development (R&D) Organizations in developing countries have sought to enhance their income generation capabilities by implementing best management practices collated from similar organizations in developed countries. Yet, the efforts of most were found to have been constrained. Using an organizational activity theory framework and a qualitative approach, based on interviews and wo...

how can we develop a viable vision of relations between history and social theory? A comparison of three recent books clarifies the stakes and possibilities of the question. Peter Burke’s History and Social Theory looks out at social and cultural theory from the viewpoint of historical practice, sorting theoretical resources chiefly by their contribution to that practice. Julia Adams, Elisabeth...

This review essay surveys recent literature in the history of science, literary theory, anthropology, and art criticism dedicated to exploring how the artificial life enterprise has been inflected by--and might also reshape--existing social, historical, cognitive, and cultural frames of thought and action. The piece works through various possible interpretations of Kevin Kelly's phrase "life is...

The paper examines studies based on the theory of expansive learning, formulated in 1987. In recent years the theory has been used in a wide variety of studies and interventions. The theory builds on foundational ideas put forward by Vygotsky, Leont’ev, Il’enkov, and Davydov, key figures in the Russian school of cultural–historical activity theory. Studies based on the theory are reviewed in si...