CRADLE - Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning - University of Helsinki

Latest news (May 2012)

21.05.2012

Laitinen's Licentiate thesis has been accepted

Anne Laitinen's (CRADLE's doctoral program, class of 2010) Licentiate thesis has been accepted, with distinction, by the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences. The title of Anne's thesis is ”Double stimulation and agency in the experiment of the ’meaningless situation’”. The external examiners of the thesis were Professor Sylvie Barma (Laval University) and Professor Steven L. Thorne (Portland State University). The supervisor was Annalisa Sannino.

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18.05.2012

New Publication on Contribution of Activity Theory and Pragmatism

MIETTINEN, R., PAAVOLA, S. and POHJOLA, P. (2012), From Habituality to Change: Contribution of Activity Theory and Pragmatism to Practice Theories. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2012.00495.x `

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08.05.2012

Marianne Teräs was elected as a secretary of OTT

Marianne Teräswas elected as a secretary of OTT in Finland . The OTT (Omicron Tau Theta) is an honorary professional graduate society in career-technical education. http://www.ottonline.org

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07.05.2012

Anu Kajamaa took part in OLKC

Anu Kajamaa took part in OLKC Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities conference in Valencia Spain 25-27th of April 2012 with a paper named "Shedding new theoretical and methodological lights on integration innovations in service providing organizations". The co-authors of the paper are Hanna Toiviainen, Yrjö Engeström and Angelique Hilli. The paper is related to the ongoing research project named Implementation Conditions of Integration Innovations in Health Care: Organizational Volition and the Voice of the Client.

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07.05.2012

Marianne Teräs visited the University of South Florida

Marianne Teräs visited the University of South Florida/College of Education in October 2011 by Prof. Johanna Lasonen’s invitation. Teräs gave a lecture titled “Access to Education and Work among Ethnic Second-Generation Youth”, she also met students of the Center for Migrant Education.

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07.05.2012

Marianne Teräs and Johanna Lasonen at ACTE/IVETA

Marianne Teräs and Johanna Lasonen gave a presentation titled “Development of TVET Professionals’ Intercultural Competence” in the ACTE/IVETA (Association of Career and Technical Education/International Vocational Education and Training Association) –Conference in St. Louis, MO, USA, 15-19 November 2011.

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07.05.2012

Marianne Teräs, Johanna Lasonen and Carine Cool in the in the AERA 2012

Marianne Teräs , Johanna Lasonen and Carine Cools from the OPCE-project presented a poster titled “Improving Educational Practices in Finland: Young People in Transition” in the AERA 2012 (American Educational Research Association) Conference in 13 –17 April 2012, Vancouver, Canada.

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04.05.2012

Hannele Kerosuo and Tarja Mäki at the OLKC

Hannele Kerosuo and Tarja Mäki from BIM –project participated OLKC Organizational learning, knowledge and capabilities conference held in Valencia Spain 25-27th of April 2012. Their presentation had a title "Tensions, contradictions and learning in organizational and work processes". The theme for OKLC 2012 aimed to explore new perspectives to analyse and understand organisational learning, knowledge and capabilities.

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04.05.2012

Reijo Miettinen and Sami Paavola participated to the SHOK Summit 2012

Reijo Miettinen and Sami Paavola participated to the SHOK Summit 2012 meeting held in Helsinki, April 26. The Finnish Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation (SHOKs) presented their results. CRADLE group presented with a poster and a short video a pilot on using knotworking and building information modeling (BIM) in a construction project in Kuopio.

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30.04.2012

Annalisa Sannino has received an Academy Research Fellowship

Annalisa Sannino has received an Academy Research Fellowship from the Academy of Finland. This is a highly competitive 5-year research fellowship with full salary, starting of the 1st of September 2012. Annalisa's research plan is titled "The Emergence of Agency: Foundations for Educational Change from Below".

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26.04.2012

Annalisa Sannino took part in the AERA 2012 conference

Annalisa Sannino took part in the AERA 2012 conference in Vancouver, Canada with a paper on Agency and Knotworking in Coproduction: Change Laboratory in an Academic Library. The paper was presented on the 16th of April 2012 at the symposium on Coproduction Practices: Reconfiguring Professional Knowledge and Work, organized by Tara Fenwick, University of Stirling.
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26.04.2012

Annalisa Sannino visited the CRIRES, Laval University in Quebec, Canada

Annalisa Sannino visited the CRIRES (Centre de Recherce et d’Intervention sur la Réussite Scolaire) at the Laval University in Quebec where she met faculty members and students who are applying activity theory to study science education and school change. At Laval University Annalisa gave a series of lectures in French on the topic Dialectique et Intervention en Théorie de l'Activité.

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19.04.2012

PhD Anu Kajamaa gave an invited speech at the Health care quality seminar

PhD Anu Kajamaa gave an invited speech on April 17th, 2012 at the Health care quality seminar at Biomedicum, Helsinki. The speech illustrated some of the main results of Kajamaa's doctoral dissertation which concerns changes and development of Finnish health care. She also spoke about a research project on integration of health services in which she works as a project manager. The audience consisted of medical professionals.

Summary of the dissertation

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19.04.2012

FT Anu Kajamaa oli kutsuttuna luennoitsijana Terveydenhuollon laatupäivillä/

FT Anu Kajamaa piti 17.4.2012 esitelmän Terveydenhuollon laatupäivillä Biomedicumissa, Helsingissä. Esitelmä koski Kajamaan suomalaisen terveydenhuollon muutoksia ja kehittämistä käsittelevän väitöskirjatutkimuksen tuloksia. Lisäksi hän esitteli terveydenhuollon palvelujen eheyttämistä koskevaa hanketta, jossa hän työskentelee projektipäällikkönä. Kuulijat olivat terveydenhuollon toimijoita.

Väitöskirjan yhteenveto

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18.04.2012

Publication from the research project "Learning production concepts"

The network project "Learning production concepts" (Tekes, Production concepts program) has ended and the "practice-based" outcome has been published on the website of PKT säätiö,

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17.04.2012

New publication on Double Stimulation and Expansive Practice

Ritella, G., Hakkarainen, K. (2012). Instrumental genesis in technology-mediated learning: From double stimulation to expansive knowledge practices. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

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12.04.2012

New publication on Knotworking in Academic Libraries

Engeström, Y., Kaatrakoski, H., Kaiponen, P.; Lahikainen, J., Laitinen, A., Myllys, H., Rantavuori, J. Sinikara, K. (2012) Knotworking in Academic Libraries: Two Case Studies from the University of Helsinki. Liber Quarterly 21 (3/4)

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05.04.2012

PhD Marco Pereira Querol presented a paper at the “Agriculture in Urbanizing Society” Conference 2012

Marco A Pereira Querol, researcher at the CRADLE, presented a paper entitled “Transformation of Agricultural Production Concepts: Contribution from Developmental Work Research” in the International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations (Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1 – 4 April, 2012). Dr. Querol participated in the working group: Learning for Innovation: new challenges in an urbanizing world.

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04.04.2012

Coming event: Collaborative Data Analysis

CRADLE is organizing a set of seminars for collaborative data analysis of data collected in interventions based on the Change Laboratory method. The first seminar will be on the 30.05.2012, from 9:00 – 12:00 in Siltavuorenpenger 3A. The exact place of the event and the material to be discussed will be sent later. People interested in participating should contact Marco Querol through the email: marco.pereira-querol(at)helsinki.fi

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02.04.2012

A new researcher in the BIM project

Teija Rantala started as a doctoral student in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) project in 02.04.2012. Teija already started the DWRAE Programme in January 2012. In the project her research area is multi-organizational (developer-customer-end-user) collaboration and its boundaries in construction industry.

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News from March 2012

30.03.2012

PhD Anu Kajamaa visited the University of California Berkeley

PhD Anu Kajamaa, a researcher and project manager at the CRADLE,spent the last two months at University of California Berkeley as a visiting researcher. Having made a previous visit to UC Berkeley in 2010, she enjoyed learning from her colleagues.

During the visit, Dr. Kajamaa gave invited speeches at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education Colloquium and at University Community Links Statewide Conference in March 2012. Kajamaa also visited University of Southern California, USA.
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29.03.2012

New article on Learning Tools and Learning Practices

Teräs, M. (2012) Learning in "Paperland": Cultural Tools and Learning Practices in Finland. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 56, 2.

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23.03.2012

Permission to defend for Jenny Vainio

The Faculty Council has given Jenny Vainio permission to defend her doctoral dissertation, titled 'Hegemony, contradiction and gender in the context of Finnish university physics'.

The supervisor of Jenny's doctoral work is Docent Annalisa Sannino. Jenny's opponent will be Professor Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, Scotland). The pre-examiners of her thesis were Professor Endla Löhkivi and Professor Susan Meriläinen.

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22.03.2012

New report on Research on Service Networks' customer understanding

It has been published in Finnish a new report outlining the research concepts and approaches of Kohaus project, coordinated by FIOH/Laura Seppänen et al. and co-coordinated by CRADLE and Aalto University.

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20.03.2012

Helsinki Summer School 2012 ‘Activity Theory and
Formative Interventions’ (ATFI) brochure

The course dates are 7 August to 23 August 2012. Please feel free to spread the brochure widely. The course is aimed at giving a rich introduction to activity theory and developmental work research by bringing theory and practice together with the help of case presentations and field visits to organizations in which formative interventions have been carried out. The course will be held in English.

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16.03.2012

New article on Dialectics and intervention in activity theory

Sannino, A. (2012). Dialectique et intervention en théorie de
l'activité [Dialectics and intervention in activity theory]. In Y. Clot (Ed.), Vygotski maintenant (pp.213-230). Paris: La Dispute. (In French)

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09.03.2012

New article on Expanding uses of building information modeling

Kerosuo, H., Miettinen, R., Mäki, T., Paavola, S., Korpela, J., Rantala, T. (2012). Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects. Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 41, 114-119.

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08.03.2012

Prof. Engeström was announced as a pleary speaker in IFLA 2012

Prof. Yrjö Engeström was annnounced pleary speaker at the World Library and Information Congress : 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland

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07.03.2012

New affiliated researcher, Jean-Louis Magakian

Jean-Louis Magakian, Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management, St. Etienne School of Management

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07.03.2012

New article on Narrative approach and Activity Theory

Kajamaa, A. (2012). Enriching action research with the narrative approach and activity theory: analyzing the consequences of an intervention in a public sector hospital in Finland, Educational Action Research 20 (1): 75-93.

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Other news (Archive)

29.02.2012 Applications for Summer School 2012

29.02.2012"Activity Theory and Organizations" sub-theme to be held at the EGOS Colloquium in 2012 and 2013

29.02.2012Anu Kajamaa received her PhD in December 2011

21.02.2012New article on Models for Learning Networks

13.02.2012 New article on Analysis of Disturbances

06.02.2012CRADLE gets high marks in evaluation

18.01.2012 Seminar of the new doctoral class 2012

05.01.2012Call for short-papers EGOS Colloquium 2012, sub-theme 48:Activity Theory and Organizations

20.12.2011Summer School 2012 approved

16.12.2011 Christmas message