A Kajamaa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 38791 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Kajamaa |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Kajamaa |
| FIRMA | KAJAMAA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6397-545X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
‘Overcoming and owning challenges’
AI ‐mediated sensemaking in higher education students’ learning processes
Despite a proliferation of research on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and its applications in higher education (HE), our understanding of the transformative processes where students create productive and ethically grounded uses of GenAI and how AI mediates students' sensemaking is still limited. Based on an empirical investigation of bachelor's degree students from educational sciences ( N = 22) carrying out an inquiry‐based course as…
Transcending tensions of the school system with distributed leadership
Purpose Our study aims to explore distributed leadership as a concept emerging from the developmental efforts of a Finnish teacher training school community to transform their activity to transcend contradictions of the Finnish school system. Our study increases understanding of distributed leadership as a practice-embedded, inherently contradictory functional concept. Design/methodology/approach We employ the Change Laboratory intervention metho…
Teachers’ transformative agency in a Change Laboratory in a Finnish elementary school
The emergence and evolution of teachers' transformative agency and its connection to addressing systemic contradictions remains little studied. Drawing from cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning, we investigated how emerging transformative agency during a Change Laboratory intervention helped Finnish school teachers address problems of schoolwork, stemming from the educational system's underlying contradictions …
SimLab
Research highlights the potential of interprofessional in-situ simulation (ISS); however it is often limited by individualistic outcome measures. Using an activity theoretical design, this research aimed to develop, implement and analyse an ISS programme intended to promote expansive learning and organisational change for paediatric emergencies in general practice. An interprofessional team participated in an adapted Change Laboratory interventio…
Making Experts
Existing research has illuminated the multidimensional nature of knowledge creation in school makerspaces. Yet, limited research exists on the boundary crossing of knowledge in makerspaces and how it can lead to the emergence of relational expertise. Using video records of interactions between 10–13-year-old students and their teachers in a school makerspace, this ethnographic case study applied mediated discourse analysis to investigate the boun…
Knowledge objects and knowledge practices in interdisciplinary learning
Background Higher education is expected to prepare students with interdisciplinary learning (IDL), which is important for their educational and working life opportunities. The cocreation of knowledge in interdisciplinary teams offers multiple opportunities for the emergence of collective knowledge objects (KOs) and knowledge practices (KPs).Methods During iterations of an organization simulation course, interdisciplinary student teams created an …
Repairing disrupted care processes as sources of stability, learning and change in a Finnish hospital
Expansive learning actions for leadership in a teacher training school’s Change Laboratory
Learning to innovate
The need to foster citizens’ innovation skills is widely recognized. Although current research acknowledges the potential of makerspaces to promote innovation activities, research still lacks an understanding of underlying mechanisms that can lead the creation of innovations in makerspaces by students. Moreover, research to date has overlooked how innovation practices are formed in K–12 makerspaces. In this sociocultural study, we used ethnograph…
Dialectics of distributed leadership in an interorganizational entrepreneurship hub
In this study, we widen the understanding of how the dialectics of distributed leadership develop as part of discursive interactions in an interorganizational setting directed at renewal. Using a dialectical perspective, we analyzed developmental meetings of an entrepreneurship hub and identified three dialectics, namely disagreement versus encouragement, organizational dependency versus interorganizational engagement and status quo versus transf…
A cultural historical approach to social displacement and university-community engagement
The emergence of leadership in students’ group interaction in a school-based makerspace
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…
Preparing Educators for Inclusive Bilingual Education
Teacher education programs prepare candidates for bilingual, English as a second language, or special ed¬ucation as separate professionals. This creates challenges when teaching bilingual children with disabilities. There is a need to cross boundaries combining expertise and preparing teachers for children’s uniqueness. Re¬sponding to this need, the researchers organized a change laboratory with 14 professors and two State Depart¬ment of Educatio…
Mapping Digital Competence
This study investigates and maps students’ maker literacies as they relate to digital competence. The study builds on sociocultural theorizing and on the scholarship of digital literacy that defines maker literacies as social practices that entail making and remaking artifacts and texts using various materials and technologies. Through a detailed multimodal analysis of video data from an ethnographic case study of students’ (N:11) interaction in …
Sociomaterial movements of students' engagement in a school's makerspace
This study investigates the sociomaterial movements of student engagement in a school's makerspace. Here, we understand sociomaterial movements as emergent and relational, comprising complex dynamics of agency across students, teachers and materials in situated, culturally framed activities. Our study draws on data comprising 85 hours of video recordings of 9–12‐year‐old students' (N = 94) engagement in a technology‐rich makerspace in a Finnish e…
Young people, digital mediation, and transformative agency, special issue (part 1)
This international double special issue representing researchers from Australia, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the USA revisits and extends prior resear
Agency in the making
Despite the potential of digitally enhanced learning environments for supporting twenty-first-century learning and educational change, there is a dearth of research knowledge on students’ transformative agency in their use of digital technologies and media within these contexts. Transformative agency accounts for young people’s initiative and commitment to transform their activity and its context(s) for personal and/or academic ends. This paper r…
Young people, digital mediation, and transformative agency, special issue (part 2)
This international double special issue representing researchers from Australia, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the USA revisits and extends prior resear
Double stimulation in everyday work
Toward a Grammar of Collaboration
Inspired by Susan Leigh Star’s work, we propose a conceptual grammar for analyzing and comparing culturally and historically different kinds of collaboration. Drawing on cultural-historical activity theory and Bakhtin’s theorizing, the grammar is tested and concretized with the help of the macroscale case of different types of social movements and the microscale case of different types of collaboration in home care encounters. There is no direct …
Clients’ Initiatives and Caregivers’ Responses in the Organizational Dynamics of Care Delivery
Our aim with this article is to develop a typology for the analysis of client–caregiver encounters in health care. We first observed client–caregiver interactions in the homes of home care clients and during the care processes of surgical patients. We then conducted a data-driven analysis to identify the clients’ initiatives and the degree of engagement in the responses they received. The clients shaped their care by commenting on, questioning, e…
SimLab
Research highlights the potential of interprofessional in-situ simulation (ISS); however it is often limited by individualistic outcome measures. Using an activity theoretical design, this research aimed to develop, implement and analyse an ISS programme intended to promote expansive learning and organisational change for paediatric emergencies in general practice. An interprofessional team participated in an adapted Change Laboratory interventio…
Preparing Educators for Inclusive Bilingual Education
Teacher education programs prepare candidates for bilingual, English as a second language, or special ed¬ucation as separate professionals. This creates challenges when teaching bilingual children with disabilities. There is a need to cross boundaries combining expertise and preparing teachers for children’s uniqueness. Re¬sponding to this need, the researchers organized a change laboratory with 14 professors and two State Depart¬ment of Educatio…
Clients’ Initiatives and Caregivers’ Responses in the Organizational Dynamics of Care Delivery
Our aim with this article is to develop a typology for the analysis of client–caregiver encounters in health care. We first observed client–caregiver interactions in the homes of home care clients and during the care processes of surgical patients. We then conducted a data-driven analysis to identify the clients’ initiatives and the degree of engagement in the responses they received. The clients shaped their care by commenting on, questioning, e…
Double stimulation in everyday work
Toward a Grammar of Collaboration
Inspired by Susan Leigh Star’s work, we propose a conceptual grammar for analyzing and comparing culturally and historically different kinds of collaboration. Drawing on cultural-historical activity theory and Bakhtin’s theorizing, the grammar is tested and concretized with the help of the macroscale case of different types of social movements and the microscale case of different types of collaboration in home care encounters. There is no direct …
Young people, digital mediation, and transformative agency, special issue (part 1)
This international double special issue representing researchers from Australia, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the USA revisits and extends prior resear
Agency in the making
Despite the potential of digitally enhanced learning environments for supporting twenty-first-century learning and educational change, there is a dearth of research knowledge on students’ transformative agency in their use of digital technologies and media within these contexts. Transformative agency accounts for young people’s initiative and commitment to transform their activity and its context(s) for personal and/or academic ends. This paper r…
Young people, digital mediation, and transformative agency, special issue (part 2)
This international double special issue representing researchers from Australia, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the USA revisits and extends prior resear
Mapping Digital Competence
This study investigates and maps students’ maker literacies as they relate to digital competence. The study builds on sociocultural theorizing and on the scholarship of digital literacy that defines maker literacies as social practices that entail making and remaking artifacts and texts using various materials and technologies. Through a detailed multimodal analysis of video data from an ethnographic case study of students’ (N:11) interaction in …
Sociomaterial movements of students' engagement in a school's makerspace
This study investigates the sociomaterial movements of student engagement in a school's makerspace. Here, we understand sociomaterial movements as emergent and relational, comprising complex dynamics of agency across students, teachers and materials in situated, culturally framed activities. Our study draws on data comprising 85 hours of video recordings of 9–12‐year‐old students' (N = 94) engagement in a technology‐rich makerspace in a Finnish e…
The emergence of leadership in students’ group interaction in a school-based makerspace
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…
Preparing Educators for Inclusive Bilingual Education
Teacher education programs prepare candidates for bilingual, English as a second language, or special ed¬ucation as separate professionals. This creates challenges when teaching bilingual children with disabilities. There is a need to cross boundaries combining expertise and preparing teachers for children’s uniqueness. Re¬sponding to this need, the researchers organized a change laboratory with 14 professors and two State Depart¬ment of Educatio…
Dialectics of distributed leadership in an interorganizational entrepreneurship hub
In this study, we widen the understanding of how the dialectics of distributed leadership develop as part of discursive interactions in an interorganizational setting directed at renewal. Using a dialectical perspective, we analyzed developmental meetings of an entrepreneurship hub and identified three dialectics, namely disagreement versus encouragement, organizational dependency versus interorganizational engagement and status quo versus transf…
A cultural historical approach to social displacement and university-community engagement
Learning to innovate
The need to foster citizens’ innovation skills is widely recognized. Although current research acknowledges the potential of makerspaces to promote innovation activities, research still lacks an understanding of underlying mechanisms that can lead the creation of innovations in makerspaces by students. Moreover, research to date has overlooked how innovation practices are formed in K–12 makerspaces. In this sociocultural study, we used ethnograph…
Making Experts
Existing research has illuminated the multidimensional nature of knowledge creation in school makerspaces. Yet, limited research exists on the boundary crossing of knowledge in makerspaces and how it can lead to the emergence of relational expertise. Using video records of interactions between 10–13-year-old students and their teachers in a school makerspace, this ethnographic case study applied mediated discourse analysis to investigate the boun…
Knowledge objects and knowledge practices in interdisciplinary learning
Background Higher education is expected to prepare students with interdisciplinary learning (IDL), which is important for their educational and working life opportunities. The cocreation of knowledge in interdisciplinary teams offers multiple opportunities for the emergence of collective knowledge objects (KOs) and knowledge practices (KPs).Methods During iterations of an organization simulation course, interdisciplinary student teams created an …
Repairing disrupted care processes as sources of stability, learning and change in a Finnish hospital
Expansive learning actions for leadership in a teacher training school’s Change Laboratory
‘Overcoming and owning challenges’
AI ‐mediated sensemaking in higher education students’ learning processes
Despite a proliferation of research on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and its applications in higher education (HE), our understanding of the transformative processes where students create productive and ethically grounded uses of GenAI and how AI mediates students' sensemaking is still limited. Based on an empirical investigation of bachelor's degree students from educational sciences ( N = 22) carrying out an inquiry‐based course as…
Transcending tensions of the school system with distributed leadership
Purpose Our study aims to explore distributed leadership as a concept emerging from the developmental efforts of a Finnish teacher training school community to transform their activity to transcend contradictions of the Finnish school system. Our study increases understanding of distributed leadership as a practice-embedded, inherently contradictory functional concept. Design/methodology/approach We employ the Change Laboratory intervention metho…
Teachers’ transformative agency in a Change Laboratory in a Finnish elementary school
The emergence and evolution of teachers' transformative agency and its connection to addressing systemic contradictions remains little studied. Drawing from cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning, we investigated how emerging transformative agency during a Change Laboratory intervention helped Finnish school teachers address problems of schoolwork, stemming from the educational system's underlying contradictions …
SimLab
Research highlights the potential of interprofessional in-situ simulation (ISS); however it is often limited by individualistic outcome measures. Using an activity theoretical design, this research aimed to develop, implement and analyse an ISS programme intended to promote expansive learning and organisational change for paediatric emergencies in general practice. An interprofessional team participated in an adapted Change Laboratory interventio…
Psychology (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Pedagogy (14 obras) · Mathematics education (10 obras) · Social science (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Expansive (6 obras) · Knowledge management (5 obras)