Activity Theory in Practice: Promoting learning across boundaries and agencies Book

List of illustrations vii

Notes on contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiv

List of abbreviations xv

Introduction Harry Daniels Anne Edwards 1

1 From diagnosis to clients: constructing the object of collaborative development between physiotherapy educators and workplaces Jaakko Virkkunen Elisa Mäkinen Leila Lintula 9

2 The meaning of physical presence: an analysis of the introduction of process-optimisation software in a chemical pulp mill Kirsi Kallio 25

3 Towards co-configuration in home care of the elderly: cultivating agency by designing and implementing the Mobility Agreement Jaana Nummijoki Yrjö Engeström 49

4 Expansive learning, expansive labour: conceptualising the social production of labour-power within multi-agency working Paul Warmington Jane Leadbetter 72

5 Identifying learning in interprofessional discourse: the development of an analytic protocol David Middleton 90

6 Implicit or invisible mediation in the development of interagency work Harry Daniels 105

7 Working relationally at organisational boundaries: negotiating expertise and identity Anne Edwards loanna Kinti 126

8 Breaking through silence: tackling controversial barriers through interprofessional engagement Tony Gallagher Karen Carlisle 140

9 Agency vs constraint: the role of external agencies in interprofessional engagement Rosemary Kilpatrick Tony Gallagher Karen Carlisle 160

10 Adaptation and generalisation in software product development Anders I. Mørch Kathrine A. Nygård Sten R. Ludvigsen 184

11 Joint designs for working in wikis: a case of practicing across settings and modes of work Andreas Lund Ingvill Ramussen OleSmørdal 207

Index 231