Research traditions in the study of learning and development: cognitive, pragmatist and sociocultural perspectives. Theoretical and methodological implications

Course leaders

• Professor Roger Säljö, University of Gothenburg
• Professor Erno Lehtinen, University of Turku

Course description

The course is intended as an introduction to three of the major theoretical traditions that have been salient in the study of learning, development and teaching in the past decades: cognitive, pragmatist and sociocultural perspectives. The specific focus will be on the implications for research of these traditions, i.e. how research can be conducted in order to be consonant with these perspectives. Thus, a prominent element in the course will be to scrutinize how the methods used for collecting data, the analytical procedures and other aspects of the research process are designed in these traditions.

Course dates

• The first meeting will be in Gothenburg on the 23^rd and 24^th of September.
• The second meeting will be in Turku on the 3^rd and 4^th of November. For the Turku meeting, Swedish participants have to fly out on the evening of the 2^nd.