Analysis Of Activity Theory By Donna Kain And Elizabeth Wardle

In the article “Activity Theory” by Donna Kain and Elizabeth Wardle explains how different groups works within themselves. They explain how the activity system define a group of people who share a common goal or motive. I completely agree on how an activity system allow certain communities are structurally connected. This is a great way to help you understand community relationships. Activity system is a good system because it “sees all aspects of activity as shaped over time by people’s social interactions with each other and the tools they use” (1). Everyone is in an activity system even if you don’t realize it. Being an engineering major you will socialize with many other engineers and have the same language of learning. It is useful in many ways because it sets a line of rules and regulations with in the community. …show more content…
Like rising you hand when you have a question, asking to get up in class, etc. As David Russell explains how an activity system as “any ongoing, object-directed, historically conditioned, dialectically structured, tool-mediated human interaction” (2). The tools Russell explains all flow together by the subject which are considered the people within the system and give their point of view about their subject which leads to the motives. The subject would use the tools to succeed their objective and that would be a result of their outcome. This system all flows as one which the community accomplishes the same goal. But an activity system sees all conditions shaped over time by people's social interaction with each other and tools they use. An activity system represents everything in our life and shows how it is an activity theory. That life itself is an activity and people are participating in it every