Activity Theory as a Pedagogical Framework for the Delivery of Technology Education

Abstract

As I write this chapter I occasionally look out over a field full of sheep tending their spring lambs. It is a pleasant day and the sheep spend their time grazing or resting as the lambs explore their new environment. Yesterday it rained. There was no appreciable difference in the sheep’s behaviour. They did not take shelter nor did they construct any form of shelter from the rain. They just continued to act as sheep do, come rain or shine. They exist in this particular field because the farmer decided that they should. Their ability to move beyond the boundaries of the field in question is restricted by a stone dyke that was constructed by human beings sometime in the past. The sheep have no agency, there is no considered meaning directing their actions, they do not purposefully alter their environment in order to shape it according to their needs and desires. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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