@ctivités: Editorial policy
@ctivités is an electronic journal that aims at publishing studies and research focused on human goal-oriented activities in work and everyday life settings. @CTIVITES seeks to foster and promote discussion, the sharing and dissemination of theoretical, practical and social aspects of human activities, in the context of academic research and intervention.
A journal devoted to goal-oriented activities
In the tradition of Francophone ergonomics and work psychology, the notion of activity has been developing for about 50 years. This concept is of special importance in academic research and in the field of interventions, in ergonomics, work and organizational psychology, in training and sociology. However, these works have suffered from a lack of dissemination and visibility.
At the same time, activity theories (AT) have grown in different directions. The researches initially developed within the Soviet psychology community and currently associated with research teams in Nordic countries and American continents, as well as situated approaches of action and cognition (with which there are many links), are increasingly discussed. However, the diversity of theoretical and methodological frameworks, their particularities and their limitations requires extensive interdisciplinary debate and exchange of ideas.
The aim of @CTIVITES is to achieve this goal by soliciting and publishing high-quality contributions focused on the concept of Activity. These contributions can stress the theoretical, methodological, technical and social aspects of activities in work and everyday life settings.
The journal covers, for example:
- "Ontological (the essence of the concept of activity) and epistemological (epistemic approaches to activity) dimensions of activity.
- "Methodological issues (whether concerning knowledge or action) and the conditions of their usage.
- "Knowledge drawn from empirical analysis of activities (state of the conditions of work and life, classes of situation).
- "Contributions that put into perspective the relations between activity theories and other approaches.
- "Etc.
A journal devoted to knowledge and action
Tensions (and contradictions) between knowledge and action have been discussed from different points of view in different disciplines (especially in Francophone ergonomics). Taking these tensions seriously is a key point in the development of productive exchanges
The objective of @CTIVITES is to provide a space where outputs from theoretical and empirical studies can be confronted.
An interdisciplinary forum
Ergonomics and psychology are the two main disciplinary fields of reference of @CTIVITES; but the journal is inherently interdisciplinary and is open to contributions from other disciplines.
As a complex notion, a single disciplinary field cannot grasp activity. The journal aims at publishing original research that explores different dimensions of the concept of activity be it in ergonomics, psychology or in boundary disciplines and relevant research areas: physiology, linguistics, philosophy, engineering, sociology, organization, etc.
Copyright @ctivités, 2004
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