2: ENVISIONING CREATIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN FACULTY AND TECHNOLOGISTS. (10th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rathbun, Gail A.; Kuhlenschmidt, Sally; Sacks, David
• Is Part Of: To improve the academy. Volume 32:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 21
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2017-10-10
• Subjects: College teachers -- In-service training -- United States -- Periodicals; College teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Planning -- Periodicals; Lesgeven; Kwaliteitsverbetering; Hoger onderwijs; College teachers -- In-service training; College teaching; Universities and colleges -- Faculty; Universities and colleges -- Planning; United States; Periodicals; 378.1250973
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2013.tb00696.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1065-237X

Abstract

Abstract : Faculty developers must often mediate conflicts resulting from differences between seemingly mutually exclusive cultures that university technologists and university teachers inhabit. Activity theory embraces workplace conflict as normal and as contributing to organizing health and adaptation, in contrast to a functionalist approach that focuses on how to maintain system equilibrium. Engeström's (1987) interpretation of activity theory provides a theoretically informed framework for understanding different forms of human activity, mediated by culturally molded rules, values, and division of labor, without suffering from the polarizing effects of an us‐versus‐them approach.