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Formative Interventions for Justice, Futurity, and Sustainability
Sat, April 15, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, OntarioSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium brings together activity-theoretical formative intervention research conducted in five continents. The aim is to examine the common threads, important differences, and new challenges of formative intervention studies to address “wicked problems” in different contexts. Formative interventions facilitate expansive learning and systemic transformation in organizations and social movements. Formative interventions generate and support expansive learning and transformative agency. The current global crises of climate change, poverty and deepening inequalities are giving rise to what is called fourth generation activity theory for tackling fateful challenges by building heterogeneous multi-activity coalitions. The symposium will present the challenges and possibilities in Change Laboratories and other formative interventions to develop just and sustainable solutions to global crises.
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Uses of History in Change Laboratory Interventions: A Methodological Framework - Yrjo H. Engestrom, University of Helsinki; Annalisa Sannino, Tampere University
Expansive Learning and Transformative Agency in an @RiverCommons Formative Intervention in South Africa - Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes University
Educational Research of Consequence for Teachers and Students in the Global South - Nick Hopwood, University of Technology Sydney
Developing Preservice Teachers' Practical Knowledge: A Formative Interventionist Study in China - Ge Wei, Capital Normal University
Change Laboratory for Forming Coalitions to Prevent Work-Related Deaths: The Zerobito Experience From Brazil - Irina Natsumi Hiraoka Moriyama, University of São Paulo; Rodolfo Vilela, University of São Paulo; Alessandro da Silva, Workers Health Reference Center of Piracicaba; Daniel Braatz, Federal University of Sao Carlos; Manoela Lopes, Federal University of Piauí; Sandra Beltrán-Hurtado, University of São Paulo; Amanda Macaia, Environmental Health and Sustainability Association; Marco Pereira Querol