Imagining Education: Taking CHAT Based Transformative Action [Hardback]

"This book is about the reflective journey of Sharada Gade, a teacher-practitioner who turned into a researcher-practitioner. The book holds many lessons, as the author talks about her collaboration with teachers and her experience in coauthoring research reports with them. She also discusses how to teach and implement instructional interventions. This practical knowledge is supported by perspectives from cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). Such a stance offers conceptual clarity to the book's lessons by drawing from across continents, institutions and academic fields. The culmination of these efforts makes for fascinating reading, one that sheds much needed theoretical-practical light for practitioners to take transformative action in their own classrooms"--

Gade, a teacher-practitioner in India who became a researcher-practitioner in Europe and the US, reflects on her transformation and describes how she collaborated with teacher-practitioners to conduct instructional interventions in math classrooms by drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). She views practitioner action and attention to human development as key to educational theory and practice and describes her journey as a classroom teacher and researcher, examples of research in cultural historical activity theory, pedagogical and critical perspectives related to the theory, research in curriculum studies, and interventions based on the theory: teaching and learning to teach, problem posing, exploratory talk, and meaningful activities. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

This book explores the interdisciplinary potential of cultural historical activity theory or CHAT perspectives of developmental psychology, conceptualises the author’s realisation of teacher-researcher collaboration and details their joint conduct of instructional interventions to realise transformative action in ongoing mathematics classrooms.