What is it about?
Research on Cultural-historical Activity Theory (CHAT) has been rapidly expanding, especially since the mid-eighties. More recently, organisational learning methods - (eg Engeström's Change Laboratory and Yves Clot's Clinique de l’Activité) – have shown how CHAT-based methods can and do inform practice. Unlike the latter more widely known approaches, which work with small groups in a formal workplace environment, CHAT-based Organisation Workshop (OW) goes beyond the workplace and works exclusively with (often economically deprived) large groups.
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Why is it important?
Organisation Workshop (OW) is backed up by thirty years-plus years of successful application in a variety of environments on three continents. It opens new avenues to Community Development practice and breaks new ground in the 'social psychology of the large group' (Ivan Labra). Those groups typically range from around 200 to 800 participants and more, made up predominantly of the un- and semi-employed and struggling middle classes.
Perspectives
Two of the co-authors have a life-long involvement with Organisation Workshop (OW) which, because it originated in fieldwork practice rather than being associated with academic research, relatively little had been published until now.
Raff CARMEN
University of Manchester
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This page is a summary of: Organisation Workshop. Beyond the Workplace: Large Groups, Activity and the Shared Object, Mind Culture and Activity, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10749039.2017.1386218.
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