La volition et l’agentivité transformatrice : perspective théorique de l’activité
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the formation of transformative agency in organizations, using Vygotsky’s theorizing of will and willful action and the dialectical principle of ascending from the abstract to the concrete as points of departure. Vygotsky’s principle of double stimulation offers a framework within which limitations of conceptualizations of agency may be overcome. To illustrate and further examine a different approach to agency, the article discusses a Change Laboratory intervention conducted in a university library. The analysis depicts transformative agency as willful collective engagement in overcoming critical conflicts with the help of mediating cultural artifacts characterized as second stimuli by Vygotsky. In the case analyzed here, the second stimulus was elaborated on and implemented as a theoretical abstraction with expansive generalizing potential for multiple concrete applications. The analysis indicates that, for serving as a second stimulus and initial abstraction, artifacts have to be appropriated by the participants as instrumentality for working out their conflicts and investing in agentive initiatives to transform their activities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.056 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".