ABSTRACT

The research programme on transformative agency by double stimulation within cultural-historical activity theory is a resource for responding to pressing societal needs of our time. The peculiarity of this programme lies in the ambition to develop a rigorous approach to grasping processes of collective transformative agency and generating viable pedagogical instruments to support them. The metaphor of warping is useful for this endeavour. In this article the metaphor is applied to three empirical examples to show how collectives generate transformative agency, how the process evolves or flounders, and how it can be supported. The first example stems from a waiting experiment originally described by Vygotsky as a prototypical example of this type of agency. The second and third examples stem from data collected in a study on eradicating homelessness in Finland. The article discusses the implications of this approach for research and practice.

摘要

文化-历史活动理论中关于双重刺激的变革性机构的研究计划是响应我们这个时代紧迫的社会需求的资源。该计划的特殊之处在于其雄心勃勃的目标是开发一种严格的方法来掌握集体变革机构的过程并产生可行的教学工具来支持它们。翘曲的比喻对这项工作很有用。在本文中，这个比喻被应用到三个实证例子中，以展示集体如何产生变革性代理、这个过程如何演变或陷入困境，以及如何支持它。第一个例子源于一个等待实验，最初由维果斯基描述为此类代理的典型例子。第二个和第三个例子来自在芬兰消除无家可归的研究中收集的数据。本文讨论了这种方法对研究和实践的影响。