The article outlines four generations of theorizing and research on work and learning within
the Finnish school of activity theory. The main focus of the paper is on the evolution of the …

Highlights•Student teachers face complex challenges in their future profession, incl.
developing professional digital competence (PDC).•In response, teacher education needs to …

This special issue brings together a set of articles by scholars working to expand equitable
forms of learning and teaching that contribute to a socially just democracy—or what we …

This article examines formative interventions as we understand them in cultural-historical
activity theory and reflects on key differences between this intervention research tradition …

The article presents central ideas and future challenges of cultural-historical activity theory,
focusing specifically on the work of the so-called Helsinki school of activity theory. We first …

This study investigated teacher educators' collective professional agency and identity within
an identity coaching programme. The participants in the programme were teacher educators …

The research programme on transformative agency by double stimulation within cultural-
historical activity theory is a resource for responding to pressing societal needs of our time …

Exploring how digital resources are being used to engage students in learning and improve
educational quality, Digital Agency in Higher Education promotes an awareness of relations …

This article presents Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
(CRPBIS), the first framework to operationalize cultural responsiveness in the context of …

Formative interventions and the specific method of the Change Laboratory (CL) are
presented as examples of intervention research that generates actionable and societally …