CHAT now has a new SIG at the annual conference of the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA).
The SIG aims to bring together researchers who use the Finnish tradition of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) in their research or engage in dialogue with it. The goal of the SIG is to further develop this theory both within education and in other disciplines in response to acute societal needs of our time. As part of the SIG’s activities different annual and bi-annual events will take place in Finland to support CHAT scholars sharing and discussing their work. While FERA is a Finnish organisation and most of the information is presented in Finnish, the operational language of our SIG is English and we more than welcome researchers from outside Finland to present their work as part of our SIG’s activities.
Next SIG events took place at the FERA conference at University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, November 21-22 2019. The specic theme for the CHAT SIG this year was “LEARNING AND AGENCY FOR EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY: DIALOGUE WITH ACTIVITY THEORY.”
Hannele Kerosuo presenting the paper
“Space, time and object in developing the work of a youth housing unit”