Expertise in Transition: Expansive Learning in Medical Work - Softcover

Engeström, Yrjö

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521407850 ISBN 13: 9780521407854

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Expertise is recast as fluid collaboration on complex tasks that requires envisioning the future and mastering change.

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About the Author

Yrjö Engeström is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California, San Diego and Professor Emeritus of Adult Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where he is also Director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning (CRADLE). In his work, Engeström applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for the study of transformations in educational settings, work environments, and communities. He has carried out interventionist research in health care settings for over thirty years. He is known for his theory of expansive learning and for the methodology of formative interventions, including the Change Laboratory method. Engeström's most recent books are From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work (Cambridge, 2008), Learning by Expanding: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Developmental Research (Cambridge, Second Edition, 2015), and Studies in Expansive Learning: Learning What Is Not Yet There (Cambridge, 2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521407850
• ISBN 13: 9780521407854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290