Antti Rajala

Biographic Data

ID105863
NAMEAntti Rajala
GIVEN NAMESAntti
FAMILY NAMERajala
SIGNATURERAJALA A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0001-8212-6325
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Learning, development, and Theory in motion: Revisiting cultural-historical perspectives in uncertain times

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Aydin Bal et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2026

    This issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity assembles a set of articles that, in various ways, return us to the core questions the journal strives to engage with: questions of learning, development, ...

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

    Open AccessMarika Toivola, Antti Rajala et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    examines the agency of experienced Flipped Learning mathematics teachers. • identifies three agency orientations that give meaning to Flipped Learning. • illuminates ecological conditions that enable and constrain teacher agency. • supports the implementation and sustainability of Flipped Learning. This study examines teacher agency in applying Flipped Learning (FL), focusing on four mathematics teachers in Finnish schools who have implemented FL…

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

    Open AccessAlexandra Nordström, Kristiina Kumpulainen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early Childhood Literacy2024

    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 thinking with new materialist theories, and the data from an early years multiliteracies project named The Storybook. Our goal is to draw attention to the material and relational dimensions of young children’s …

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

    Open AccessRiikka Suhonen, Antti Rajala et al.ARTICLEJournal of Vocational Education…2024

    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 world both in their workplaces and in society at large. This study examines VET teachers’ views on addressing controversial global issues, and how cultural-discursive, material-economic, and socio-political arrang…

  • How does voice matter? Learners’ voices in sustainability education

    A Jornet, Antti RajalaARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2024

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

    Open AccessLasse Lipponen, Antti Rajala et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2024References: 2

    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-ethical tensions cannot be done without addressing the underlying contradictions which pertain to particular cultural-historical context and local practices. This requires a shift of focus from individual educators’ …

  • MCA editorial - vol 31 issue 3-4

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Aydin Bal et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2024

  • Regenerating CHAT through learners' voices and collectivism

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Aydin Bal et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2024References: 1

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

    Open AccessAntti Rajala, Michael Cole et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Learning Sciences2023

    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 the more radical forms of educational activity systems that prefigure the utopian goal of an equitable and humane education system.Methods We examine, guided by a utopian methodology lens, the examples from thre…

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

    Open AccessTuija Kasa, Laura Karilainen et al.ARTICLEProspects2023

    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 how teachers and principals of UNESCO’s Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) in Finland describe their understanding of the role of global citizenship education (GCE). It draws on the typology proposed by Oxley …

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

    Open AccessM Esteban-Guitart, Antti Rajala et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in Education2023

    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 nature of decision making in the different processes of research/intervention, and its multiple and systematic nature (linking theory, practice and politics). It is developed through four main phases: i) collec…

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

    A Jornet, Karlyn Adams-Wiggins et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2023References: 8

  • Creative spaces in and beyond education

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Aydin Bal et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2023

    This issue includes a collection of five research articles and a book review that contribute to understanding creativity and equity in contemporary spaces in and beyond education. The issue opens with a paper by Areej Mawasi, William Penuel, and Arturo Cortez, exploring aspects of intergenerational co-design in the context of higher education. The paper, titled “They were learning from us as we were learning from them: perceived experiences in co…

  • No to war

    Sophina Choudry, Arturo Cortez et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2022

  • A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Sophina Choudry et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2022

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

    Open AccessJasmiina Leskinen, Kristiina Kumpulainen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Psychology of…2021

    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 student-driven creative engagement in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) learning activities. Interaction analysis was applied to analyze the students’ leadership moves and to depict how…

  • Using chronotope to research the space-time relations of learning and education: Dimensions of the unit of analysis

    Open AccessGiuseppe Ritella, Antti Rajala et al.ARTICLELearning Culture and Social…2021

    In this paper, we examine the emergent concept of chronotope and its deployment for the examination of space-time relations in research on learning and education. Chronotopes have been defined in terms of socially emergent configurations of space-time, where space and time are considered as interdependent social constructions. Chronotope is seen as a conceptual and analytical tool that allows reaching a sociocultural and dialogical understanding …

  • Special Issue: “Advancing Funds of Identity Theory”

    Arturo Cortez, Sophina Choudry et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

    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

  • Scholarship and research in crisis contexts

    Choudy Sophina, Arturo Cortez et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

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

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

    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

  • Hegel for social movements

    Antti Rajala, Julian WilliamsARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    “Anyone who is interested in social movements should study Hegel.” This is the opening statement in Andy Blunden’s book Hegel for Social Movements (2019). The book is written for oppressed people f

  • LCHC’s expanding bio-geographies: A glimpse to the future(s) through the case of the Re-generating CHAT project

    Open AccessA Jornet, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    In this article, we explore the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) as a living, distributed bio-geography—that is, as the diversity of ways in which the lab exists today in and through research-practice work and experiences across multiple locations and generations of scholars. Taking a genetic perspective, we ground our discussion in two moments in the history of LCHC, embodied in two international meetings that took place in San D…

  • Humanity’s leading activity: Survival, of the humanity of our species

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    In the midst of ongoing and unprecedented global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we open the present issue with an editorial call to scholars worldwide about learning in and from th

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

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    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

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

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    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