Spring 2027

Cultural-historical Activity Theory

Comprehensive review of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) foundations, applications, and future directions across education, psychology, health, arts, and learning sciences.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the foundational concepts in CHAT (e.g., object, contradictions, and agency)

  • Define the four generations of CHAT

  • Apply CHAT as an analytical tool

  • Explain formative intervention methodology and its applications in education, health, arts, and technology

  • Identify the guiding principles of the Utopian methodology in CHAT

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Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) is a generative, praxis-based theory of learning. CHAT has been used to analyze and transform human-context interactions. Provides a comprehensive review of the foundations, applications, and future directions of CHAT. Reviews the theoretical and empirical CHAT studies in the fields of education, psychology, health, arts, and learning sciences with an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective.

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  • Foundations, applications, and future directions of CHAT
  • Theoretical and empirical CHAT studies in education, psychology, health, arts, and learning sciences
  • Formative intervention methodology
  • Utopian methodology in CHAT

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  • Identify foundational concepts in CHAT such as object, contradictions, and agency
  • Define the four generations of CHAT
  • Apply CHAT as an analytical tool
  • Explain formative intervention methodology and its applications in education, health, arts, and technology
  • Identify the guiding principles of the Utopian methodology in CHAT

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RP&SE 855 · Spring 2027

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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