The Change Laboratory: A Tool For Collaborative Development Of Work And Education

The Change Laboratory: A Tool For Collaborative Development Of Work And Education
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...The Change Laboratory method is based on the theory of expansive learning (Engestrom, 1987). In this framework, the end results of learning are not predetermined by the interventionists or researchers. The outcomes are designed by the participants as they work out expansive solutions to developmental contradictions in their activity systems. Expansive learning cuts across the often separate disciplinary domains of individual learning and organizational learning. Learning outcomes are not reducible to changes in the cognition and behavior of the participants of expansive learning efforts. The outcomes are above all consequential material changes in the objects, instruments, rules and divisions of labor within and between the collective activities engaged in expansive learning, coupled with new forms of collective and individual transformative agency (Virkkunen, 2006). The Change Laboratory is a living toolkit that cannot be mechanically reproduced. Each implementation is a creative endeavor that requires grasping the local circumstances and specific potentials of the activity systems involved. Each implementation generates insights and findings that can enrich and develop further the method itself, as well as the theory behind it. This book is an invitation for researchers and practitioners to join in, study the ideas, and interact with those who have already conducted Change Laboratory interventions...

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