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Research Engagement for Sustainable and Equitable Transformations (RESET)

RESET Project team members: Annalisa Sannino (PI), Yrjö Engeström, Hannele Kerosuo, Lauri Vähätalo

“Oppimista ja toimijuutta ymmärretään parhaiten osallistavien ja muutoshakuisten analyysien avulla”

RESET on oppimistutkijoiden ryhmä. Se kehittää suomalaisen kulttuurihistoriallisen toiminnan teorian neljättä sukupolvea ja siihen liittyvää formatiivista interventiomenetelmää, Muutoslaboratoriota. Tässä monitieteisessä tutkimusohjelmassa tutkitaan ylisektoraalista oppimista ja muutostoimijuutta osallistumalla akuuttien yhteiskunnallisten uudistumishaasteiden ratkomiseen.

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Yrjö Engeström is Professor Emeritus of Adult Education at University of Helsinki, Finland and Professor Emeritus of Communication at University of California, San Diego. He is Director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) which applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory in studies of transformations and learning in work and organizations. He has received an honorary professorship from University of Birmingham in UK and honorary doctorates from University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Ioannina, Greece.

Lauri Vähätalo (M..Soc.Sci. in Sociology, Social Politics and Education, 2016) is doctoral student in the Programme Education and Society at the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University. His dissertation focuses on multisectoral networks as platforms for learning to eradicate homelessness in Tampere. Dimitrios Prokopis is an educator and a master’s student at the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University. The preliminary title of his thesis is “Toward a new beginning: Expansive learning in a youth housing unit.”

Terhi Esko (M..Soc.Sci. in Sociology), is a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation examines topics related to the societal impact of academic research in the humanities and social sciences. Her previous research themes include science, technology and innovation policy, comparative studies of research organizations, and public service production. Terhi Esko has skills in qualitative content analysis, framing, and narrative methods. She has published in journals including Science and Public Policy, Minerva, and International Journal of Contemporary Sociology. She will defend her dissertation in the fall of 2019.

Anne Laitinen is writing a dissertation based on data collected during the first replication of the Vygotskian “waiting experiment”. Her Master’s thesis on transformative agency by double stimulation received the University of Helsinki Faculty of Behavioural Sciences Master’s Thesis Award in June 2011. In 2012 she obtained a Licentiate degree, with distinction, with the thesis “Double stimulation and agency in the experiment of the meaningless situation.” She has been involved in several Change Laboratory intervention studies since 2008.

Niina Mykrä works as doctoral researcher on a grant from Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the key societal role schools can play for ecological sustainability. She uses cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning as theoretical framework. She is currently on leave from her position as executive director of the Finnish Association of Nature and Environment Schools.

Satia Zen is currently doing her doctoral studies in the Faculty of Education and Culture, focusing on the impact of an international teacher program from the perspective of the development of teacher identity. Prior to joining Tampere University, Satia worked as Program Coordinator for international teacher education, as a School Director in Sukma Bangsa School (Aceh, Indonesia) and as teacher trainer. Satia’s academic interests include teacher education and professional development, internationalisation of education, school development with public private partnership and education in post conflict settings.