44.082 - Change Laboratories Across Cultures: Lessons From Formative Interventions in Work and Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The Change Laboratory is a formative intervention method based on cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning. Change Laboratories have been carried out in workplaces, educational institutions and communities around the world. Change Laboratories differ from most varieties of design-based research in that the analysis and re-design of the activities are done by the participating practitioners. The method represents an innovative form of workplace learning. The aim of this symposium is to identify important dimensions of variation in the ways Change Laboratories are conducted in different cultural conditions. Such dimensions of variation may be used in the construction of different types of pedagogical implementation of the Change Laboratory, adapted to different cultural and historical circumstances and workplace challenges.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Workplace Learning

Chair

• Annalisa Sannino, University of Tampere

Papers

• Examining Change Laboratories: Conceptual Framework and a Case Illustration - Yrjo H. Engestrom, University of Helsinki; Anu Kajamaa, CRADLE, University of Helsinki; Annalisa Sannino, University of Tampere

• "One Student, One Curriculum Timetable": Expansive Learning in Curriculum Reform Within a Taiwanese High School - Peiying Chen, National Taiwan Normal University; Feili Jian, Taipei Zhong Zheng High School; Hongda Lin, University of Helsinki; Paul Hsu, Lotus Creek Foundation; Wei-Ying Lan, Taipei Li-Shang High School

• Conflict Avoidance, Resistance, and the Emergence of Agency in a Mexican Change Laboratory - Carlos Montoro, University of Guanajuato

• Change Laboratories in Southern Africa: Lessons From Formative Interventions in Sustainable Agriculture Workplaces - Mutizwa Mukute, Rhodes University

Discussant

• Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin - Madison