Work

2: Envisioning Creative Collaboration Between Faculty and Technologists

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Faculty developers must often mediate conflicts resulting from differences between seemingly mutually exclusive cultures that university technologists and university teachers inhabit. Activity theory embraces workplace conflict as normal and as contributing to organizing health and adaptation, in contrast to a functionalist approach that focuses on how to maintain system equilibrium. Engeström's (1987) interpretation of activity theory provides a theoretically informed framework for understanding different forms of human activity, mediated by culturally molded rules, values, and division of labor, without suffering from the polarizing effects of an us-versus-them approach.

Source: To improve the academy

DOI: 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2013.tb00696.x

Authors: Gail A. Rathbun, Sally Kuhlenschmidt, David Sacks

Institutions: Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, Western Kentucky University, University of Kentucky

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Education and Learning Practices

Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1550131383

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