This review study includes 43 articles from 2016 and 2017 focusing on teachers'
professional development, as guided by the following twofold research question:“What …

The aim of the study has been to describe, analyse and discuss the latest research findings
on the professional development that is accomplished through collective and cooperative …

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 …

Organizations increasingly grapple with hybridity—the combination of identities, forms,
logics, or other core elements that would conventionally not go together. Drawing on in …

This article presents a constitutive approach to the study of organizational contradictions,
dialectics, paradoxes, and tensions. In particular, it highlights five constitutive dimensions …

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 article develops an empirically grounded process model of how managers in
organizations respond to coexisting paradoxical tensions. With a longitudinal real-time …

First published in 1987, Learning by Expanding challenges traditional theories that consider
learning a process of acquisition and reorganization of cognitive structures within the closed …

So-called “design experiments” have been presented as a radical alternative to traditional
experimental designs in behavioral sciences. A closer scrutiny of design experiments shows …