Fritjof Sahlström
Biographic Data
| ID | 194839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fritjof Sahlström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fritjof |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahlström |
| SIGNATURE | SAHLSTRÖM F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9438-4038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Screen recording: A qualitative method for making visible digital activities in educational practices
Interrogating the role of technology in practice can be challenging because of the ubiquitous, yet often private, use of technology, rendering large parts of practice invisible. This article proposes screen recording as a promising method for studying digital environments in education, presenting three cases of integrating screen recordings into a qualitative design: social media use in the classroom, school leadership practice, and writing pract…
Screen-age researchers: Hybrid participatory ethnography together with 8–9 grade students
With connected screens, human sociality and digital technology has hybridised in most domains of everyday life, including education. This article addresses methodological and ethical challenges in investigating hybrid situations containing students' screen-mediated communication, both within and beyond the classroom. Drawing on two-year long fieldwork in a multi-sited participatory research project involving students aged 14-16 at four lower seco…
Spatial ideologies on official bilingualism and co-located schools in Finland and South Tyrol, Italy
In countries with several official languages, language separation often remains a structural principle in institutional education. Co-located schools, in which two autonomously administered schools with different languages of instruction share a physical space, may challenge this separation. Such schools have existed for a long time, but increasingly insert themselves into an architectural trend that leans toward multipurpose spaces. In this pape…
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom
This study analysed how students’ mobile phones and Snapchat are adapted to and participate in the classroom. Insights from the actor network theory were used to discuss the interconnections between students, mobile phones, Snapchat, desks, and plenary teaching. We applied video analysis to examine the minute details of unfolding sociomaterial practices. The data, which was produced in a Finnish upper secondary school in 2015–2016, is a compositi…
Refugees here and Finns there’ – categorisations of race, nationality, and gender in a Finnish classroom
Schools represent a central meeting place where societal inequalities are reproduced and questions of social justice become important. This study focuses on categorisations related to race, nationality, and gender in interactions in Finnish teaching environments, as well as teacher reflections on these situations. We discuss the implications of the categorisations on social justice and the role of the teacher in these situations. We conducted vid…
Diversity as the new normal and persistent constructions of the immigrant other – Discourses on multicultural education among teacher educators
The aim of this study was to explore the role of social justice in multicultural education taught in teacher education. The study investigated discourses on multicultural education among Finnish teacher educa-tors, and the subject positions constructed in them. Discourse theory analysis revealed six discourses on multicultural education, ranging from conservative to liberal and critical, with liberal discourses having the most articulations. Alth…
Smartphones in classrooms: Reading, writing and talking in rapidly changing educational spaces
Connected youth, connected classrooms. Smartphone use and student and teacher participation during plenary teaching
Becoming tolerable: Subject constitution of Roma mediators in Finnish schools
Although Finnish politics relating to the Roma tend to be perceived internationally as fairly successful, several obstacles exist for the Roma in education and the labour market. Training of Roma mediators has been actively promoted in Finland to improve the school performance and equality of Roma pupils. This article, based on ethnographic research, focuses on exploring how the current discursive terrain around the topics of tolerance and prejud…
Justice through participation: Student engagement in Nordic classrooms
In this article, we approach large questions regarding justice and equality in the Nordic classrooms. A substantial body of previous research emphasises the importance of student engagement in teaching and learning. Drawing on video data from Norway, Sweden and Finland, we focus on whole-class teaching, i.e. situations in which the teacher addresses the class from the front of the classroom, to investigate justice trough participation. We have ap…
Same and Different: Epistemic Topicalizations as Resources for Cohesion and Change in Classroom Learning Trajectories
Despite a seemingly fragmented interactional context, teachers and students in classrooms routinely manage to co-construct coherent, inter-related, and individually adapted learning trajectories distributed over days and weeks. The aim of this article is to explore with what interactional resources progressivity is accomplished in learning trajectories by focusing on how participants establish relations of cohesion and change between current and …
Taking steps towards institutionalising multicultural education – The national curriculum of Finland
Internationally multicultural education research has pointed to the need to move from superficial to social justice-oriented multicultural education. However, realising this goal in policy and practice is a challenge. This study takes Finland as a case and examines the discursive developments of multicultural education in its national curriculum 1994–2014. Despite being a country which is known for emphasising equity and equality in education, su…
Learning how to be a tähti: A case study of language development in everyday situations of a 7-year-old multilingual Finnish child
The aim is to study how a multilingual girl develops her understanding and use of the Finnish word tähti “star” and, in so doing, to contribute to the understanding of children’s language learning in multilingual settings. In recent understandings of learning and development, interaction is considered as constitutive of learning. Learning is not restricted to educational settings but occurs in different contexts. The multilingual setting in this …
Learning as Longitudinal Interactional Change: From Other -Repair to Self -Repair in Physiotherapy Treatment
The aims of this article are to address how learning is constituted and can be studied as a phenomenon in interaction and to discuss how teaching and learning are related. Theoretically, the article argues for and discusses constraints and affordances for relating sociocultural understandings of learning as changing participation to conversation analysis understandings of participation. The data material consists of longitudinal video recordings …
In tow of the blue whale
Yikings and hip-hoppers in the classroom — An explorative case study of cultural conflict in an educational setting
Learning as Longitudinal Interactional Change: From Other -Repair to Self -Repair in Physiotherapy Treatment
The aims of this article are to address how learning is constituted and can be studied as a phenomenon in interaction and to discuss how teaching and learning are related. Theoretically, the article argues for and discusses constraints and affordances for relating sociocultural understandings of learning as changing participation to conversation analysis understandings of participation. The data material consists of longitudinal video recordings …
In tow of the blue whale
Diversity as the new normal and persistent constructions of the immigrant other – Discourses on multicultural education among teacher educators
The aim of this study was to explore the role of social justice in multicultural education taught in teacher education. The study investigated discourses on multicultural education among Finnish teacher educa-tors, and the subject positions constructed in them. Discourse theory analysis revealed six discourses on multicultural education, ranging from conservative to liberal and critical, with liberal discourses having the most articulations. Alth…
Refugees here and Finns there’ – categorisations of race, nationality, and gender in a Finnish classroom
Schools represent a central meeting place where societal inequalities are reproduced and questions of social justice become important. This study focuses on categorisations related to race, nationality, and gender in interactions in Finnish teaching environments, as well as teacher reflections on these situations. We discuss the implications of the categorisations on social justice and the role of the teacher in these situations. We conducted vid…
Becoming tolerable: Subject constitution of Roma mediators in Finnish schools
Although Finnish politics relating to the Roma tend to be perceived internationally as fairly successful, several obstacles exist for the Roma in education and the labour market. Training of Roma mediators has been actively promoted in Finland to improve the school performance and equality of Roma pupils. This article, based on ethnographic research, focuses on exploring how the current discursive terrain around the topics of tolerance and prejud…
Justice through participation: Student engagement in Nordic classrooms
In this article, we approach large questions regarding justice and equality in the Nordic classrooms. A substantial body of previous research emphasises the importance of student engagement in teaching and learning. Drawing on video data from Norway, Sweden and Finland, we focus on whole-class teaching, i.e. situations in which the teacher addresses the class from the front of the classroom, to investigate justice trough participation. We have ap…
Yikings and hip-hoppers in the classroom — An explorative case study of cultural conflict in an educational setting
Same and Different: Epistemic Topicalizations as Resources for Cohesion and Change in Classroom Learning Trajectories
Despite a seemingly fragmented interactional context, teachers and students in classrooms routinely manage to co-construct coherent, inter-related, and individually adapted learning trajectories distributed over days and weeks. The aim of this article is to explore with what interactional resources progressivity is accomplished in learning trajectories by focusing on how participants establish relations of cohesion and change between current and …
Yikings and hip-hoppers in the classroom — An explorative case study of cultural conflict in an educational setting
In tow of the blue whale
Learning as Longitudinal Interactional Change: From Other -Repair to Self -Repair in Physiotherapy Treatment
The aims of this article are to address how learning is constituted and can be studied as a phenomenon in interaction and to discuss how teaching and learning are related. Theoretically, the article argues for and discusses constraints and affordances for relating sociocultural understandings of learning as changing participation to conversation analysis understandings of participation. The data material consists of longitudinal video recordings …
Learning how to be a tähti: A case study of language development in everyday situations of a 7-year-old multilingual Finnish child
The aim is to study how a multilingual girl develops her understanding and use of the Finnish word tähti “star” and, in so doing, to contribute to the understanding of children’s language learning in multilingual settings. In recent understandings of learning and development, interaction is considered as constitutive of learning. Learning is not restricted to educational settings but occurs in different contexts. The multilingual setting in this …
Taking steps towards institutionalising multicultural education – The national curriculum of Finland
Internationally multicultural education research has pointed to the need to move from superficial to social justice-oriented multicultural education. However, realising this goal in policy and practice is a challenge. This study takes Finland as a case and examines the discursive developments of multicultural education in its national curriculum 1994–2014. Despite being a country which is known for emphasising equity and equality in education, su…
Justice through participation: Student engagement in Nordic classrooms
In this article, we approach large questions regarding justice and equality in the Nordic classrooms. A substantial body of previous research emphasises the importance of student engagement in teaching and learning. Drawing on video data from Norway, Sweden and Finland, we focus on whole-class teaching, i.e. situations in which the teacher addresses the class from the front of the classroom, to investigate justice trough participation. We have ap…
Same and Different: Epistemic Topicalizations as Resources for Cohesion and Change in Classroom Learning Trajectories
Despite a seemingly fragmented interactional context, teachers and students in classrooms routinely manage to co-construct coherent, inter-related, and individually adapted learning trajectories distributed over days and weeks. The aim of this article is to explore with what interactional resources progressivity is accomplished in learning trajectories by focusing on how participants establish relations of cohesion and change between current and …
Smartphones in classrooms: Reading, writing and talking in rapidly changing educational spaces
Connected youth, connected classrooms. Smartphone use and student and teacher participation during plenary teaching
Becoming tolerable: Subject constitution of Roma mediators in Finnish schools
Although Finnish politics relating to the Roma tend to be perceived internationally as fairly successful, several obstacles exist for the Roma in education and the labour market. Training of Roma mediators has been actively promoted in Finland to improve the school performance and equality of Roma pupils. This article, based on ethnographic research, focuses on exploring how the current discursive terrain around the topics of tolerance and prejud…
Refugees here and Finns there’ – categorisations of race, nationality, and gender in a Finnish classroom
Schools represent a central meeting place where societal inequalities are reproduced and questions of social justice become important. This study focuses on categorisations related to race, nationality, and gender in interactions in Finnish teaching environments, as well as teacher reflections on these situations. We discuss the implications of the categorisations on social justice and the role of the teacher in these situations. We conducted vid…
Diversity as the new normal and persistent constructions of the immigrant other – Discourses on multicultural education among teacher educators
The aim of this study was to explore the role of social justice in multicultural education taught in teacher education. The study investigated discourses on multicultural education among Finnish teacher educa-tors, and the subject positions constructed in them. Discourse theory analysis revealed six discourses on multicultural education, ranging from conservative to liberal and critical, with liberal discourses having the most articulations. Alth…
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom
This study analysed how students’ mobile phones and Snapchat are adapted to and participate in the classroom. Insights from the actor network theory were used to discuss the interconnections between students, mobile phones, Snapchat, desks, and plenary teaching. We applied video analysis to examine the minute details of unfolding sociomaterial practices. The data, which was produced in a Finnish upper secondary school in 2015–2016, is a compositi…
Spatial ideologies on official bilingualism and co-located schools in Finland and South Tyrol, Italy
In countries with several official languages, language separation often remains a structural principle in institutional education. Co-located schools, in which two autonomously administered schools with different languages of instruction share a physical space, may challenge this separation. Such schools have existed for a long time, but increasingly insert themselves into an architectural trend that leans toward multipurpose spaces. In this pape…
Screen recording: A qualitative method for making visible digital activities in educational practices
Interrogating the role of technology in practice can be challenging because of the ubiquitous, yet often private, use of technology, rendering large parts of practice invisible. This article proposes screen recording as a promising method for studying digital environments in education, presenting three cases of integrating screen recordings into a qualitative design: social media use in the classroom, school leadership practice, and writing pract…
Screen-age researchers: Hybrid participatory ethnography together with 8–9 grade students
With connected screens, human sociality and digital technology has hybridised in most domains of everyday life, including education. This article addresses methodological and ethical challenges in investigating hybrid situations containing students' screen-mediated communication, both within and beyond the classroom. Drawing on two-year long fieldwork in a multi-sited participatory research project involving students aged 14-16 at four lower seco…
Pedagogy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works)