Technology as Materialized Action and Its Ambivalences

Schraube, Ernst

doi:10.1177/0959354309103543

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“…Technological tools are both 'materialized actions' (Schraube, 2009) and resources for the materiality of learning (Sorensen, 2009), as well as active agents able to transform malleable humans.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artefacts that talk: Mediating technologies as multistable signs and tools

Hasse

2013

Subjectivity

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The article takes up the notion of artefacts as tools and signs and discusses how socially assistive robots impact professional work life and professional identities as multistable active change agents. It argues for a multistable understanding of tools as signs, building on a combination of post-phenomenology and culturalhistorical activity theory to capture the embodied, cultural and historical learning processes initiated when technologies engage with humans in professional work life. Moreover, the article invokes the concept of relational agency as useful for capturing how staff may question the distribution of expertise between humans and machines.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artefacts that talk: Mediating technologies as multistable signs and tools

Hasse

2013

Subjectivity

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“…We can underscore this argument by emphasizing the psychological insight that the subjective and simultaneously cultural nature of knowledge and objects of practice (cf. Schraube, 2009) is always connected to people's motivational and emotional way of experiencing the world. This is also true for the two modes of knowing: The knowing subject brings about imagination and anticipation on the one hand, and reflection and judgments on the other, both understandable only in relation to a particular situation.…”

Section: Collective Knowing As Relational Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

Methodological challenges of investigating in-tellectual cooperation, relational expertise, and transformative agency

Langemeyer

2017

NJVET

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Methodological issues arise with the research of societal practices of 'knowing'. This object of study is understood as concrete human activity that always integrates mental, communicative and practical behaviour in interaction and cooperation with others. Especially with regard to contemporary forms of labour in the high-tech-world, this issue has become a salient task. As it is explained, it implies investigation of people communicating and reasoning while developing concrete forms of activity. In particular, the methodological issues concern the social and psychodynamic quality of this practice. Within the tradition of cultural-historical research and activity theory, milestones of this matter have already been reached. Cultural-historical concepts like the 'motive' of an activity as well as the 'emotions' that bias the 'experience' of 'transformative engagements' with the world show that their theoretical and methodological understanding are adept to approach the dialectics between the social and the individual quality of practice and agency in general, but also with regard to contemporary challenges of intellectualized cooperation in particular. 'Double stimulation', a concept coined by Vygotsky, is relevant in this context as well. However, the paper discusses critically whether it fits with the system theoretical understanding of activities and transformative agency as it can be found in Engeström's writings. Finally, the core requirements for a VET-research methodology for intellectualized collaboration are resumed.

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“…Science in technoscience is not done by those who object but rather by those who invent in intended and unintended collaborations. Science in technoscience is intersubjectively 'materialized action' (Schraube, 2009). Consider the making of a chimerical mice, a transgenic lab animal, of the robot Atlas, of earth observation patterns of soil erosion, the visualisation of neural networks, climate simulations, synthetic molecules etc.…”

Section: Distributed Invention Powermentioning

confidence: 99%