Early stages in building hybrid activity between school and work: the case of PénArt

Autor: Sylvie Barma, Thérèse Laferrière, Julie Massé-Morneau, Marie-Caroline Vincent, Bruno Lemieux
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Education and Work. 30:669-687
ISSN: 1469-9435
1363-9080
DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2017.1294247
Popis: This formative intervention documents the emergence of a hybrid activity aiming at student engagement and academic achievement. In this context-bound study, early stages of this activity consisted in establishing PenArt meant to enable high school students with difficulties to start up their own business at school. It involved reaching agreements between a high school and a youth centre so that high school students engage in the production and selling of their branded t-shirt. At the frontiers of their respective activity system, students, youth workers, special education teachers and members of the school board took actions to cross boundaries and redefine their interrelations. Cultural historical activity theory was fruitful to document the development of a new object-oriented activity. Tensions and contradictions revelaled to be the key moments in the emergence of the hybrid activity. Expansive learning led us to understand that, in a conflicting situation, a collective’s agentive actions creat...
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