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University for the Future, the Future for Universities: Learning Communities that Prioritize Care Open

Saskia D. M. van Schaik, Jan Bransen, Aleksi Neuvonen, Benjamin U. Müller, Laura Riuttanen , et al. · 2025

Both current and future global emergencies call for vast transformations of humanity. While this has been known for decades, the challenge of acting upon it remains. Even within academia, a growing body of articles has advocated for both h…

Constructions of Feasibility within Expansive Designs for Justice with Communities Open

Michael Alan Chang, Antti Rajala, Thomas M. Philip, Arturo Cortez, Mia S. Shaw , et al. · 2025

Centering Community-Rooted Actions of Hope: Beyond Knowledge Monoculture Open

Miwa Aoki Takeuchi, Deborah Dutta, Fernanda Coelho Liberali, Tyrell Anderson, Racquel Banazsak , et al. · 2025

Utopian methodology: Researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales Open

Antti Rajala, Michael Cole, Moisès Esteban‐Guitart · 2025

Teacher’s agency orientations in flipped learning: An ecological perspective Open

Marika Toivola, Antti Rajala, Kristiina Kumpulainen · 2025

Change laboratory as a tool to address moral-ethical tensions in the work of early childhood education professionals Open

Lasse Lipponen, Antti Rajala, Jaakko Hilppö, Annukka Pursi · 2024

Our study contributes to research on moral-ethical tensions in the work of early childhood educators by applying cultural-historical activity theory, and Change Laboratory (CL) intervention. We argue that studying and resolving moral-ethic…

From training workers to educating global citizens: how teachers view their opportunities of addressing controversial global issues in vocational education Open

Riikka Suhonen, Antti Rajala, Hannele Cantell, Arto Kallioniemi · 2023

In the context of global crises, the priorities of vocational education and training (VET) need to be reconsidered. VET should educate critically reflective global citizens who are capable of acting to create a more just and sustainable wo…

Teachers as Transformative Actors to Create Meaningful Learning: Agency in Practice Open

Yeliz Günal-Aggül, Ilana Seidel Horn, Angela Calabrese Barton, Antti Rajala, Brette Garner , et al. · 2023

This international collection of papers examines the many ways teachers exercise agency in light of the challenging realities they and their students face to create caring, engaging and transformative learning environments.The teachers in …

Introduction Open

Crina Damşa, Antti Rajala, Giuseppe Ritella, Jasperina Brouwer · 2023

The range of theoretical approaches, techniques, and methodologies applied in research on learning and instruction is constantly enriched, generating a diverse and continuously evolving research environment. Conceptual and methodological d…

Symposium on transactional perspectives and current research in mind, culture, and activity Open

Alfredo Jornet, Karlyn R. Adams-Wiggins, Aydın Bal, Sophina Choudry, Arturo Cortez , et al. · 2023

Expanding Cycles of Collaboration and Critical Inquiry in Utopian Methodology. The 360 Education Alliance Case Open

Moisès Esteban‐Guitart, Antti Rajala, Michael Cole · 2023

The article proposes and illustrates a methodological framework that aligns with the action-research models and utopian methodology in particular, although it represents a more substantial leap forward, especially regarding the distributed…

Opettajien näkemyksiä globaalien aiheiden käsittelystä toisen asteen ammatillisessa koulutuksessa Suomessa Open

Riikka Suhonen, Hannele Cantell, Antti Rajala, Arto Kallioniemi · 2023

Kestävyys ja vastuullisuus koskettavat jokaista työntekijää 2020-luvulla. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan ammatillisten perustutkintojen opettajien näkemyksiä globaalien aiheiden käsittelystä toisen asteen ammatillisessa koulutuksessa Suomessa…

Social Psychology of and for World-Making Open

Séamus A. Power, Tania Zittoun, Sanne Akkerman, Brady Wagoner, Martina Cabra , et al. · 2023

Academic Abstract Social psychology’s disconnect from the vital and urgent questions of people’s lived experiences reveals limitations in the current paradigm. We draw on a related perspective in social psychology 1 —the sociocultural appr…

Utopian methodology: Researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales Open

Antti Rajala, Michael Cole, Moisès Esteban‐Guitart · 2022

Background This article explores the methodological foundations for a utopian methodology as a form of Design-Based Intervention Research (DBR) that can guide the process of envisioning, implementing, sustaining, and critically evaluating …

Transformer 2030 Tulevaisuuden tekijät Open

Antti Rajala, Anu Tasajärvi, Charlotta Holmström, Hannele Cantell · 2022

Tässä katsauksessa esittelemme varhaiskasvattajille ja opettajille suunnattua Transformer 2030 – Tulevaisuuden tekijät -täydennyskoulutushanketta, jossa etsittiin kasvatuksen ja koulutuksen alueilta uusia ratkaisuja ja rohkeita avauksia ke…

Editorial: at the intersection of multiple research fields Open

Karlyn R. Adams-Wiggins, Sophina Choudry, Arturo Cortez, Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi , et al. · 2022

Pedagogical rationales of flipped learning in the accounts of Finnish mathematics teachers Open

Marika Toivola, Antti Rajala, Kristiina Kumpulainen · 2022

The focus of this study is on the pedagogy of flipped learning (FL) in mathematics teaching. There has been extensive research into FL, but less research on teachers' pedagogical rationales when adopting this pedagogy. The present study ad…

Exploring empathy performativity in students’ video artworks Open

Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, Antti Rajala, Kristiina Kumpulainen · 2022

This article examines events of empathy as they occur during artmaking using the lens of agential realism. We do this to trouble more traditional psychological constructs of empathy and, instead, rethink it as performative and relational. …

Finnish UNESCO school educators’ understanding of global citizenship education: Analysis through typologies, ecosocial understanding, and human rights Open

Tuija Kasa, Laura Karilainen, Antti Rajala, Hannele Cantell, Arto Kallioniemi · 2022

This article sheds light on the unexplored field of UNESCO schools in Finland, and the results clarify the relationships between curricula, international commitments, and the understanding of educators in the educational field. It examines…

A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity Open

Karlyn R. Adams-Wiggins, Sophina Choudry, Arturo Cortez, Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi , et al. · 2022

Mielipahasta myötätuntoon – myötätuntotekojen rakentuminen varhaiskasvatuksessa Open

Kiira Salmi, Antti Rajala, Lasse Lipponen · 2022

\nTämä tutkimus kysyy, miten myötätuntoteot rakentuvat päiväkodin kontekstissa. Tutkimus perustuu havaintoihin erään päiväkodin 2–5-vuotiaiden lasten ryhmän arjesta 10 päivän ajalta hyödyntäen kollektiivisen ja lyhytkestoisen etnografian m…

No to war Open

Sophina Choudry, Arturo Cortez, Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet , et al. · 2022

Konkreetit utopiat keinona edistää nuorten kansalaisvaikuttamista Open

Antti Rajala, Jarmo Lehtinen, Elina Lehtomäki, Pihla Soinnunmaa, Mikael Sorri , et al. · 2021

Tämä katsaus tarkastelee, minkälainen pedagogiikka voisi edistää nuorten kansalaisvaikuttamista nykyisessä yhteiskunnallisessa tilanteessa, jossa ihmiskunta on ylittämässä planetaarisia rajoja. Tarkemmin tutkimus käsittelee ”konkreetin uto…

Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom Open

Alexandra Nordström, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Antti Rajala · 2021

This article examines the unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom. We focus on the unfolding of joy in intra-action among children, adults and materials during literacy learning endeavours by…

Scholarship and research in crisis contexts Open

Choudy Sophina, Arturo Cortez, Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet , et al. · 2021

Special Issue: “advancing funds of identity theory” Open

Arturo Cortez, Sophina Choudry, Moisès Esteban‐Guitart, Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi , et al. · 2021

This special issue on Funds of Identity, guest edited by Moises Esteban-Guitart, is comprised of six research papers and Esteban-Guitart’s response, with collective support from Julian Williams and...

Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities Open

Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet, Bonnie Nardi, Antti Rajala , et al. · 2021

To “the fierce urgency of now”(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963)As we continue to confront crises, turmoil, and struggles for justi...

The emergence of leadership in students’ group interaction in a school-based makerspace Open

Jasmiina Leskinen, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Anu Kajamaa, Antti Rajala · 2020

This case study is an examination of the emergence of leadership in students’ group interaction in a school-based makerspace. The data comprised video records of 20 primary school students’ group work within this context, encompassing stud…

Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity Open

Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet, Bonnie Nardi, Antti Rajala , et al. · 2020

We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio...

Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells Open

Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi, Alfredo Jornet, Bonnie Nardi, Antti Rajala , et al. · 2020

In support of social movements that fight for freedom and liberation, and against racial and ecological injustices, we take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to scholarship that cares abou...

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