Jaako Hilppö
Lecturer, Faculty of Educational Sciences
University of Helsinki
jaakko.hilppo@helsinki.fi
Dr. Jaakko Hilppö currently holds a university lecturership at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki. His research focuses on children’s projects as manifestations of their agency and sites for their learning from a cultural-historical activity theory perspective. This work directly builds on his previous research on children’s sense of agency and doing co-participatory research with children. He has also studied compassion in children's peer interactions and cultures of compassion in early childhood and care contexts (University of Helsinki) as well as children’s learning and interest development within the FUSE Studio model, an innovative STEAM learning infrastructure (Northwestern University). He has also studied the national and international spread of the FUSE Studio model.
Dr. Hilppö is currently the country representative of Finland at the International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR) and the secretary of the Finnish Educational Research Association's CHAT SIG. Dr. Hilppö is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Outlines - Critical Practice Studies and frequently reviews for central CHAT journals, like Mind, Culture and Activity and Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. Dr. Hilppö was also the chair for the Nordic-Baltic ISCAR 2022 conference held in Helsinki.
Selected Publications
Hilppö, J., Suorsa, T., & Rainio, A. (2022). Transitional activities: Children’s projects in preschool. In M. Fleer, M. Hedegaard, E. Ødegaard, & H. Værum Sørensen (Eds.) Qualitative Studies of Exploration in Childhood Education. Cultures of Play and Learning in Transition, (pp. 163-182). Bloomsbury, England.
Hilppö, J., & Rajala, A. (2023). Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency. In A. Sannino, & N. Hopwood (Eds.), Agency and Transformation: Motives, mediation and motion. Cambridge University Press.
Sharon Chang
Senior Lecturer & Coordinator of Student Teaching/Practicum
Bilingual/Bicultural Education Program
Teachers College, Columbia University
scc2168@tc.columbia.edu
Sharon Chang, PhD, is a senior lecturer and coordinator of student teaching/practicum in the Bilingual/Bicultural Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Using cultural historical activity theory, Dr. Chang's research investigates the educational inequities in language learning and supports teacher development in multicultural and bilingual settings to promote ethnolinguistic diversity.
Selected publications
Chang, S. (2024). Developing bilingual preservice teachers' transformative agency. Teaching and Teacher Education, 137. Article Number 104405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104405
Chang, S. (2024). Bilingual teachers' personal theorizing through art-mediated visual metaphors. Cogent Education, 11(1), 1- 16. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2380629