Learning

Like a toddler, we, younger or less-experienced people, learn by picking up the habits, attitudes, methods and skills of problems solving and playing, way of thinking and speaking, etc. from our parents, more experienced friends, relatives, teachers, colleagues, as well as books, computers,... It is through the taking part in such joint activities that we, a member of the society, are inducted into "ways of knowing" and "making" our own values, skills and knowledge along our growing process.

On the other hand, unprecedented issues and problems continually arise throughout our life. It is through joint collaboration in search for solutions that we learn and develop new skills and understandings. When we carry forward these skills and understanding to other situations and appropriated by different individuals, we pass on our values and knowing to culture at large...

Activity Theory is a theory of human development that sees human societies and their individual members as mutually constitutive. Cultures and individuals' background play a large role in shaping the development of individual; and individuals' thoughts and deeds serve to maintain or to alter the cultural milieu.

Don't we ever wonder how a little baby who could hardly walk develops into a skillful soccer player; how so many people go crazy over world cup but not to some; how a soccer player can influence other people, the society, etc.