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Very Brave of you to respond to Sukanta, Huw. Very daunting question, Sukanta. There is a special issue of the journal, Mind, Culture, and Activity theory a couple of years ago that is devoted to the study of Kurt Lewin's action theory and the socio-cultural-historical school. This is a contemporary topic of concern. Do you have access to the journal? mike On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>wrote: > Activity theory implicates a holistic developmental paradigm frequently > focused upon the social genesis of mind. Cognitive psychology is an > umbrella term that typically implicates a much weaker "present competence" > paradigm and simpler set of practices, principally attending to > individual's "processing" in relation to objects of interest, that are > typically ignorant of the profound issues addressed in activity theory. > However, if you wanted to you could situate activity theory within > cognitive psychology as it is concerned with the genesis of > cognition<http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1976/problem.htm > >(which > cognitive psychology typically is not). > > If you do the reading I think you'll find that there are no "basic > differences" that would be worth bothering with. You are better off asking > "What are the assumptions of these theories and what do they set out to > do." > > Huw > > > > On 13 October 2013 07:21, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar@aim.com> > wrote: > > > Hello > > Will anybody in this group kindly tell me what is the basic difference > > among Activity theory, Cognitive Psychology and K.L. Lewin's Field > Theory? > > I am not from Psychology background, but interested to learn about these > > for human activity purposes. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sukanta Majumdar, PhD > > Assistant Professor > > School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal > > Transit Campus: > > MANIT campus, Sports Complex, > > Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India 462051. > > sukantamajumdar@aim.com > > sukanta@spabhopal.ac.in > > www.spabhopal.ac.in > > Mo. No: +91-9479910018. > > Ph. No: +91-755-2670910-ext 238. > > Fax No: +91-755-2670908. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Status: O