SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Theme:
1.3 Learning, knowledge and agency
What:
Symposium (Symp)
When:
9:30 AM, Friday 1 Sep 2017
(2 hours)
Where:
Convention Center
- 2000 B
How:
Cultural-historical approaches to learning and work are usually premised in Leontiev’s precept that “society produces the activity of the individuals forming it”. Yet, this statement also points to the challenges presented by work across institutional boundaries in sites of intersecting practices, while tackling problems that require multiple forms of expertise. Conceptual struggles with these challenges have produced three concepts: relational expertise, common knowledge and relational agency. In brief, relational expertise involves revealing one’s own motives and recognising what matters for potential collaborators from other practices; common knowledge consists of these motives and is employed as a second stimulus when working with others on complex problems; and relational agency consists of the acts of collaboration when interpretations of problems and collaborative responses to them are mediated by common knowledge. The eight short presentations in the symposium will each take one or two of the key concepts to discuss how they were used in studies in different settings to address very different questions. In the process, they will reveal how, in sound Vygotskian terms, the concepts were refined in use in the field. All the presenters are contributors of Working relationally in and across practices, recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Sub Sessions
Doing Relational Work
9:30 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Expertise, learning, and agency in partnership practices in services for families with young children
9:45 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Relational agency, double stimulation and the object of activity: an intervention study in a primary school
10:00 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Participant
Dr. Annalisa Sannino (University of Helsinki)
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Participant
Dr. Yrjö Engeström (University of Helsinki)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Building and using common knowledge for developing school-community links
10:15 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Participant
Dr. Prabhat Rai (Ambedkar University)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
The relational agency framework as a tool for supporting the establishment, maintenance and development of multidisciplinary networks of professionals
10:30 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Relational agency and the development of tools in service networks
10:45 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Participant
Dr. Hanna Toiviainen (University of Tampere)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
When daycare professionals’ values for transition to school do not align with the educational demands from society and school: the temporal aspects of common knowledge
11:00 AM
(15 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 029 - Working relationally in and across practices: Refining concepts in the field of practice
Participant
Dr. Mariane Hedegaard (Copenhagen University)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)