Use activity-system analysis (objectives, rules, norms, artifacts, division of labour) as a reflection tool for CSL participants¶

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Description¶

The paper recommends that CSL students and other participants use CHAT's analytical tools to reflect on their experiences: analyzing differences in the objectives, rules, norms, mediating artifacts, and division of labour across different activity systems. This analysis is presented as an essential first step toward engaging in the creation, development, and transformation of their learning and working conditions.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Participants must be able to identify the multiple overlapping activity systems (university, community organization) and compare their objectives, rules, norms, artifacts, and divisions of labour

Constraints¶

• The paper presents this as an analytical framework and pedagogical rationale, not as an empirically tested intervention

Target Learners¶

• higher education students in community service-learning
• instructors
• community partners

Target Learning Goals¶

• reflecting on experiential learning experiences
• understanding one's positioning and agency within sociopolitical and cultural-historical contexts

Affordances¶

• Chat Framework For Community Service Learning

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Key Sources¶

• Taylor, A. (2014). Community service-learning and cultural-historical activity theory. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 44(1). https://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe