Roger Säljö
Biographic Data
| ID | 164085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Säljö |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Säljö |
| SIGNATURE | SÄLJÖ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8551-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Between simulation and debriefing: Instructors’ collaborative interpretation of student performance in nurse care training
Simulation-based education is valuable as it creates contexts where instructors can analyse student learning in a performative sense. Investigating video records of simulation exercises, instructor teams collaboratively interpret and evaluate how students perform professional tasks, and the teams decide what to highlight in the upcoming debriefing. This study investigates how clinical experts, such as experienced teams of operators and facilitato…
Cumulative cultures and contexts of knowing: Learning and developing in a designed world
Context, content and situatedness of human cognition have posed problems for dominant paradigms in research on learning and development since the dawn of empirical research. An interesting feature of humans is our capacity for cumulating knowledge over generations. Intergenerational learning is key to the rapid transformation of societies. Insights and experiences are continuously externalized and built into technologies and normatively organized…
Simulations, institutional know-how and the evolution of practices of learning: A commentary
A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for Artificial Intelligence, Education, Learning, and Instruction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping education, learning, and instruction, yet current research in this area is fragmented, often tool-specific, and dominated by short-term perspectives. This article develops a broader research agenda for AI and Education (AI&ED), bringing together Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) and AI literacy within an educational ecology framing. Using a collective writing methodology, an expert panel of elev…
The Analytical Gaze of Operators and Facilitators in Healthcare Simulations: Technologies, Agency and the Evolution of Instructional Expertise
This article analyses the coordination between professionals, students and technology in the communication and appropriation of know-how in healthcare simulations. To be successful, simulations require continuous interventions by professionals (in this case, operators and facilitators), who analyse, assess and reflect on the actions participants take as the simulation evolves. This study builds on interaction analysis of 30 video-documented (15 h…
Learning in and for a changing work life
The conditions for learning and competence development in most professional fields and sectors of work life are rapidly changing due to factors such as digitalisation, globalisation, and robotisati
Logic of internship learning in hybrid engineering workplace settings: A sociomaterial assemble of digital tools, humans and activities
During the recent pandemic, established modes of organising internships in engineering were disrupted; Internships often transitioned into hybrid formats with extensive online activity. But, empirical research on the quality of learning in engineering during these exceptional circumstances is limited. This study therefore examines internship experiences among engineering undergraduates (N = 39) in Singapore through semi-structured interviews cond…
Situated action, double dialogicality and the sociogenesis of categorizing in institutional practices: Diversity in schooling from vicious children to neuropsychiatric diagnoses
The background of this article is an interest in institutional communication. The context in which this has been studied concerns how diversity (in social background, ethnicity, school success etc.) is, and has been, interpreted in schooling, historically as well as in contemporary society. Through history, a range of categories allegedly accounting for school failure has been suggested, and the categories invoked reflect the position of schoolin…
Spills and thrills: Internship challenges for learning in epistemic spaces
We examine the challenges and emergent nature of learning during undergraduate internships. Much scholarly inquiry on the latter focuses on internship experiences within traditional professional domains such as medicine, teacher education, and other fields. There is less knowledge about undergraduate interns entering more fluid and recent work sectors such as Public Relations and Communication. In this study, a sociomaterial perspective guided th…
Exploring the development of executive functions in children in a digital world
Development, ageing and hybrid minds: Growth and decline, and ecologies of human functioning in a sociocultural perspective
Mastering the artful practice of navigation: The situated endorsement of professional competence in post-simulation evaluations
In this study, the ambition is to explore in situ which aspects of professional performance students are made accountable for in evaluations carried out by means of simulator-based competence tests. Methodologically, the study draws on video materials collected through ethnographic fieldwork. Analytically, the study focuses on a part of the data corpus capturing authentic instructor-student dialogues after simulator-based competence tests. Using …
Towards Dialogic Metaphors of Learning – from Socialization to Authoring
The background of the article is an interest in theories of learning and the metaphors of learning they build on and propagate. The basic argument is that the discursive construction of learning plays a central role in theoretical perspectives in research but also in discussions of societal issues in a wider sense. An initial observation is that current metaphors of learning oscillate between emphasizing socializing/reproductive dimensions and pe…
The challenges of capturing learning: Units of analysis in the study of human growth
The ADHD diagnosis has been thrown out’: Exploring the Dilemmas of diagnosing children in a school for all
This study of institutional categorisation analyses how municipalities, psychiatric clinics and schools conceive of and act on school difficulties in the Danish school system. The research analyses the responses of municipalities and schools following changes in institutional practices for the allocation of special educational support. The main data consist of documents and of interviews with professionals involved in processing students’ cases a…
Conceptual change in the development of visual expertise
Violent Extremism, National Security and Prevention. Institutional Discourses and their Implications for Schooling
Currently, threats to societal security from extremist groups are high on the political agenda in many countries. Politicians, policymakers at various levels and communities are searching for methods to counteract recruitment to violent organizations. These efforts are often referred to as Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE-programmes). One of the earliest PVE programmes in Europe was the British PREVENT programme, and it has to some extent ser…
Micro-Genetic Development of Timing in a Child
The purpose of this study is to analyze the micro-genesis of a child’s appropriation of timing. The data consist of video observations from a primary classroom with a focus on one child (7 years old) participating in a musical activity. The results show that the teacher scaffolds the child in several steps: from establishing a platform for participation in the activity, via demonstration to explanation. The child goes from being uncoordinated wit…
Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition
ICT tools in environmental education: Reviewing two newcomers to schools
United Nations of Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO's) founding statements about environmental education (EE) in the 1970s positioned it as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry. When enacted as such, it challenges traditional ways of organising secondary school education by academic subject areas. Equally, according to UNESCO, EE requires various forms of integrated and project-based teaching and learning approaches. These …
Communities, boundary practices and incentives for knowledge sharing
Expertise Differences in the Comprehension of Visualizations: A Meta-Analysis of Eye-Tracking Research in Professional Domains
Dilemmas of Schooling, Dilemmas of Theorizing
2006). Dilemmas of Schooling, Dilemmas of Theorizing. Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 157-161
There Is Something About Julia: Symptoms, Categories, and the Process of Invoking Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Swedish School: A Case Study
The problem of how to handle diversity is a prominent feature of modern schooling. Historical evidence indicates that the explanations of student problems of accommodating to schooling have varied. At present, neuropsychiatric diagnoses such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are widely used as interpretations of what constitutes the background of school difficulties. The aim of this article is to report findings from an empirical…
Mécanismes socio-cognitifs et communication: Les catégories techniques dans le discours
Cet article traite de l’activité complexe de raisonnement quand les gens, au sens ethnométhodologique du terme, « fabriquent » la société et les institutions sociales. Traditionnellement, l’étude du raisonnement et de la connaissance humaine a reposé sur des hypothèses qui sont en désaccord avec la prise en compte de la nature socioculturelle et sociocognitive des activités collectives. Notre raisonnement dans ses grandes lignes est que une analy…
On Qualitative Differences in Learning: I-outcome and Process
This paper describes an attempt to identify different levels of processing of information among groups of Swedish university students who were asked to read substantial passages of prose. Students were asked questions about the meaning of the passages and also about how they set about reading the passages. This approach allows processes and strategies of learning to be examined, as well as the outcomes in terms of what is understood and remembere…
Patient-doctor communication on smoking and drinking: Lifestyle in medical consultations
There Is Something About Julia: Symptoms, Categories, and the Process of Invoking Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Swedish School: A Case Study
The problem of how to handle diversity is a prominent feature of modern schooling. Historical evidence indicates that the explanations of student problems of accommodating to schooling have varied. At present, neuropsychiatric diagnoses such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are widely used as interpretations of what constitutes the background of school difficulties. The aim of this article is to report findings from an empirical…
Violent Extremism, National Security and Prevention. Institutional Discourses and their Implications for Schooling
Currently, threats to societal security from extremist groups are high on the political agenda in many countries. Politicians, policymakers at various levels and communities are searching for methods to counteract recruitment to violent organizations. These efforts are often referred to as Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE-programmes). One of the earliest PVE programmes in Europe was the British PREVENT programme, and it has to some extent ser…
ICT tools in environmental education: Reviewing two newcomers to schools
United Nations of Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO's) founding statements about environmental education (EE) in the 1970s positioned it as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry. When enacted as such, it challenges traditional ways of organising secondary school education by academic subject areas. Equally, according to UNESCO, EE requires various forms of integrated and project-based teaching and learning approaches. These …
Patient involvement in decision-making in surgical and orthopaedic practice: The project perioperative risk
My brain's running slow today – The preference for “things ontologies” in research and everyday discourse on human thinking
Lifestyle in primary health care discourse
Bureaucratic discourse, conversational space, and the concept of voice
Les AA. s'interessent a l'interaction entre les institutions bureaucratiques hautement specialisees de la societe moderne et les citoyens demandant des services sous le controle de ces institutions. Le but est d'illustrer comment des conversations triviales revelent des caracteristiques essentielles de l'intersubjectivite des conversations dans les societes modernes
Problem‐solving, Academic Performance and Situated Reasoning. A Study of Joint Cognitive Activity in the Formal Setting
S ummary . The article reports a study of group work in the school context aimed at solving the everyday problem of establishing the postage rate for a letter using a letter‐scale and a postage table. The participants, pupils aged 12–13 years in the sixth form of the Swedish comprehensive school, co‐operated in groups of three that were homogenised with respect to academic ability. The results reveal that all groups draw on school knowledge when …
Lifestyle discussion in the provision of health care. An empirical study of patient–physician interaction
Addressing life style in primary health care
Qualitative research on learning and instruction in Scandinavia
To understand the development of educational research traditions, it is essential to scrutinize the internal dynamics of the theoretical and methodological developments within the community of scholars working in the area as well as the social needs that are served by such research. The adoption of qualitative approaches to the study of learning and instruction thus mirrors a complex pattern of changes in the role and use of education as a social…
On Qualitative Differences in Learning: I-outcome and Process
This paper describes an attempt to identify different levels of processing of information among groups of Swedish university students who were asked to read substantial passages of prose. Students were asked questions about the meaning of the passages and also about how they set about reading the passages. This approach allows processes and strategies of learning to be examined, as well as the outcomes in terms of what is understood and remembere…
Patient-doctor communication on smoking and drinking: Lifestyle in medical consultations
Patient involvement in decision-making in surgical and orthopaedic practice: The project perioperative risk
Problem‐solving, Academic Performance and Situated Reasoning. A Study of Joint Cognitive Activity in the Formal Setting
S ummary . The article reports a study of group work in the school context aimed at solving the everyday problem of establishing the postage rate for a letter using a letter‐scale and a postage table. The participants, pupils aged 12–13 years in the sixth form of the Swedish comprehensive school, co‐operated in groups of three that were homogenised with respect to academic ability. The results reveal that all groups draw on school knowledge when …
Human Growth and the Complex Society: Notes on the Monocultural Bias of Theories of Learning
The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the analysis of the conceptions of learning (and cognition) that dominate research in several disciplines. It is argued that the traditional interpretation of learning rests on an a-cultural and Cartesian conception of human thought and action that in its practical consequences gives ideological predominance to a monocultural understanding of learning and human growth. Instead of attempting to define a…
Bureaucratic discourse, conversational space, and the concept of voice
Les AA. s'interessent a l'interaction entre les institutions bureaucratiques hautement specialisees de la societe moderne et les citoyens demandant des services sous le controle de ces institutions. Le but est d'illustrer comment des conversations triviales revelent des caracteristiques essentielles de l'intersubjectivite des conversations dans les societes modernes
Qualitative research on learning and instruction in Scandinavia
To understand the development of educational research traditions, it is essential to scrutinize the internal dynamics of the theoretical and methodological developments within the community of scholars working in the area as well as the social needs that are served by such research. The adoption of qualitative approaches to the study of learning and instruction thus mirrors a complex pattern of changes in the role and use of education as a social…
Lifestyle in primary health care discourse
Addressing life style in primary health care
Lifestyle discussion in the provision of health care. An empirical study of patient–physician interaction
Heavenly Talk: Discourse, Artifacts, and Children’s Understanding of Elementary Astronomy
In the literature on children’s understanding of astronomical concepts, such as the shape of the earth and gravitation, the difficulties that children have in conceptualizing these phenomena have been documented in many studies. The purpose of this research is to critically scrutinize these findings by taking a situated and discursive perspective on reasoning (and cognitive development). Instead of viewing understanding as the overt expression of…
Invisible People: Institutional Reasoning and Reflexivity in the Production of Services and"Social Facts" in Public Employment Agencies
(2002). Invisible People: Institutional Reasoning and Reflexivity in the Production of Services and'Social Facts' in Public Employment Agencies. Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 160-178
My brain's running slow today – The preference for “things ontologies” in research and everyday discourse on human thinking
There Is Something About Julia: Symptoms, Categories, and the Process of Invoking Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Swedish School: A Case Study
The problem of how to handle diversity is a prominent feature of modern schooling. Historical evidence indicates that the explanations of student problems of accommodating to schooling have varied. At present, neuropsychiatric diagnoses such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are widely used as interpretations of what constitutes the background of school difficulties. The aim of this article is to report findings from an empirical…
Mécanismes socio-cognitifs et communication: Les catégories techniques dans le discours
Cet article traite de l’activité complexe de raisonnement quand les gens, au sens ethnométhodologique du terme, « fabriquent » la société et les institutions sociales. Traditionnellement, l’étude du raisonnement et de la connaissance humaine a reposé sur des hypothèses qui sont en désaccord avec la prise en compte de la nature socioculturelle et sociocognitive des activités collectives. Notre raisonnement dans ses grandes lignes est que une analy…
Dilemmas of Schooling, Dilemmas of Theorizing
2006). Dilemmas of Schooling, Dilemmas of Theorizing. Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 157-161
Expertise Differences in the Comprehension of Visualizations: A Meta-Analysis of Eye-Tracking Research in Professional Domains
Communities, boundary practices and incentives for knowledge sharing
Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition
ICT tools in environmental education: Reviewing two newcomers to schools
United Nations of Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO's) founding statements about environmental education (EE) in the 1970s positioned it as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry. When enacted as such, it challenges traditional ways of organising secondary school education by academic subject areas. Equally, according to UNESCO, EE requires various forms of integrated and project-based teaching and learning approaches. These …
Micro-Genetic Development of Timing in a Child
The purpose of this study is to analyze the micro-genesis of a child’s appropriation of timing. The data consist of video observations from a primary classroom with a focus on one child (7 years old) participating in a musical activity. The results show that the teacher scaffolds the child in several steps: from establishing a platform for participation in the activity, via demonstration to explanation. The child goes from being uncoordinated wit…
Violent Extremism, National Security and Prevention. Institutional Discourses and their Implications for Schooling
Currently, threats to societal security from extremist groups are high on the political agenda in many countries. Politicians, policymakers at various levels and communities are searching for methods to counteract recruitment to violent organizations. These efforts are often referred to as Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE-programmes). One of the earliest PVE programmes in Europe was the British PREVENT programme, and it has to some extent ser…
Conceptual change in the development of visual expertise
The challenges of capturing learning: Units of analysis in the study of human growth
The ADHD diagnosis has been thrown out’: Exploring the Dilemmas of diagnosing children in a school for all
This study of institutional categorisation analyses how municipalities, psychiatric clinics and schools conceive of and act on school difficulties in the Danish school system. The research analyses the responses of municipalities and schools following changes in institutional practices for the allocation of special educational support. The main data consist of documents and of interviews with professionals involved in processing students’ cases a…
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Social science (6 works)