MOOC: Key Concepts of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) 5cr, 1–5 cr

The MOOC provides an advanced introduction to Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) based on videorecorded sessions with foremost experts from around the world. Each course module is devoted to a specific concept and key readings related to that concept. Participants engage in online discussions by posting comments on the course materials. An outline of the sessions and the corresponding contents of the MOOC modules is presented in the following:

Module 1: Four generations of CHAT

Module 2: The object of activity

Module 3: Activism and Trans/Formative Methodology in CHAT

Module 4: Dialectics and the germ cell

Module 5: Contradictions

Module 6: CHAT conceptions of culture and development

Module 7: Historicity

Module 8: Artifacts and instrumentality

Session 9: Expansive learning

Module 10: Transformative agency