Research

It offers a conceptual home to all those academics at the faculty whose research rests on sociocultural and /or activity theoretical perspectives, with a specific interest on reciprocal interaction between theory and practice.

• Learning in developmental and longitudinal perspective
• Learning in and across settings and communities; such as, formal education (e.g. early childhood education and care (ECEC), basic education, vocational and higher education, adult education); healthcare and welfare institutions; workplaces; 
• other communities of culture and science (e.g. libraries, museums, science centers), virtual communities, social movements and everyday life.
• Tool-mediated learning, including the mediating role of arts and digital literacies for learning and development
• Social interaction, engagement and identity formation
• Human agency, democracy and politics
• New forms and demands of learning and organization of activity within changing societal, cultural, economic and technological landscapes
• Expansive learning with a specific attention to contradictions as drivers for change
• Cultures of learning characterizing systematic change, institutional development and communities of practice
• Play and imagination across the life course
• Pursuit of innovation, design and social creativity as challenges and opportunities for education, work and learning

• Participatory research methodologies
• Formative interventions and developmental work research
• Video-research methodologies
• Visual research methodologies
• Discourse analysis and interaction analysis methods, and other applied sociolinguistic methodologies
• Narrative research
• Ethnographic research methodologies

Our recent research projects can be found here.

Our latest publications.

Research centers, functioning alongside the Learning, Culture and Interventions Expert Group