Thinking about my research

I was reading Jonassen and Rohror-Murphy's article on the design of constructivist learning environments, and the use of activity theory as a tool to support instructional design. Reading this for another purpose, the redesign of a case study exercise during residency. However, my mind kept jumping back to the way activity theory might figure in my research. A couple of thoughts.
1. The theoretical frame for the research is based on social constructionism, and recognizes the inter-related nature of individual and social in the learning process.
2. Activity is situated, and activity theory may be a lens for studying the complexity of human-environment interaction.
3. With this type of data it may then be possible to take any other activity system or program, analyze it using the activity theory lens, and then look at the intersection between learning and climate adaptation, finding the points of intersection, which become the spaces for integration.
4. need to re-read the article, focusing just on my research, and consider what the unit of analysis would be using an activity theory lens, and what this would yield. While a grounded theory approach has its appeal, using a particular model such at this might result in a more pragmatically oriented dissertation.