Configurations of activity: from the coupling of individual actions to the emergence of collective activity. A study of mathematics teaching situation in primary school

• Published in: Research papers in education Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 95 - 113
• Main Authors: Veyrunes, Philippe, Gal-Petitfaux, Nathalie, Durand, Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.03.2009
• Subjects: activity; Class Activities; classroom; Classrooms; collective; Cooperative Learning; emergence; Foreign Countries; France; Grade 6; Learning Activities; Mathematics; Mathematics Instruction; Primary Education; Rural Education; Teaching; France

This article presents and uses the notion of configuration of activity, which extends the Norbert Elias's original concept of social configuration based on the study and analysis of individual and collective activity. Although this concept embraces all types of social activities, in the present...