Multimodality and Expansive Learning During a School Change Laboratory: Externalizing and Implementing Distributed Leadership

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: Studies on Expansive Learning: Examining Multimodal and Discussion-Based Data (Table 14)

Abstract

We aim to widen the understanding of how learning actions are mediated multimodally in formative Change Laboratory (CL) interventions. Our interactional video-data consists of CL sessions and subsequent meetings with teachers, principals and researchers in a Finnish elementary school. Drawing from CHAT, we analysed how multiple modalities – discourse, physical CL space, materials and embodied actions – mediated the participants' expansive learning, contributing to the externalisation and implementation of distributed leadership in the school community, and detailing its developmental trajectory. Our study adds to the research about formative intervention settings by focusing on multimodality. The study illuminates how multimodal learning actions enhance the development of new pedagogical and leadership solutions for the consequential educational change called for in this year’s AERA.

Authors

• Sakari Hyrkkö, University of Helsinki
  Presenting Author

• Anu Kajamaa, University of Oulu
  Presenting Author

• Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Presenting Author