Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research

Toiviainen, H., Kerosuo, H. & Syrjälä, T. (2009). “Development Radar”: The co-configuration of a tool in a learning network. Journal of Workplace Learning, 21, 7, 509 - 524.

The paper aims to argue that new tools are needed for operating, developing and learning in work-life networks where academic and practice knowledge are intertwined in multiple levels of and in boundary-crossing across activities. At best, tools for learning are designed in a process of co-configuration, as the analysis of one tool, Development Radar, aims to demonstrate.