Learning by Expanding: An Activity - Theoretical Approach to Developmental Research

The problems motivating this inquiry are (1) the increasingly recognizable futility of learning in its standard reactive forms, and (2) the elusive and uncontrollable nature of expansive processes where human beings transcend the contexts given to them. The hypothesis guiding the further course of my study is that learning and expansion are becoming integrated, forming a historically new type of activity. Thus, the present study falls into the category of general developmental and educational theory