Strategies for expansive learning in sustainable farming initiatives: a CHAT analysis of a Dutch case

A wide variety of public and private initiatives aim to support on-farm sustainable development. But these sustainable farming initiatives (SFIs) show considerable variation in their success to do so. To understand success factors and propose appropriate strategies for continuing and expanding SFI’s, we scrutinized the developmental history of Veldleeuwerik (VL), a Dutch SFI, by using concepts from Engeström’s Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT); i.e. activity system, contradictions, zone of proximal development (ZPD) and expansive learning (Engeström, Y. (1987). Learning by expanding:... Mehr ...