Dr. Matthew Poehner

This book proved invaluable in helping me connect my previous scholarship in Vygotsky's Cultural Historical Activity Theory to the interest I developed in partnering with educational professionals to identify areas of practice in need of revision and to work for change. While Vygotskian theory offers a powerful framework for understanding human development and the potential to impact it through properly organized environments and activities, Carr and Kemmis, in their book, provide a methodology of Critical Action Research that is at once commensurate with Vygotsky's principles and helpful to realizing his vision of developmental education through praxis. Becoming critical is an essential resource for both my teaching and research and will no doubt continue to be for years to come.