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Annalisa Sannino University
Lecturer Institute of Behavioural Sciences |
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annalisa.sannino[at]helsinki.fi
Tel: +358 9 191 44577 Mobile: +358 04 51 35 6343 Fax: +358 9 191 44579 P.O. Box 26 Skype: ansannino |
Annalisa Sannino is University Lecturer at the Center for
Research on Activity, Development and Learning in the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at University of Helsinki, Finland.
She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Nancy in France and
worked as post-doctoral Fulbright scholar in the Laboratory of Comparative
Human Cognition and the Department of Communication at the University of
California San Diego in 2002-03. From 2001 to 2008 she worked as researcher
in psychology in the Department of Education at the University of Salerno in
Italy. Her research is focused
on communication, cognition and learning in educational institutions and work
organizations. In her recent work she deals in particular with the connection
between discourse and activity, and with the interventionist nature of
cultural-historical activity theory. Her work demonstrates how specific emerging forms of
agency can be discursively indentified, supported and enhanced in
transformation efforts within educational and work activities. She has also
compared different methods of formative interventions within activity theory.
In particular she has worked out a basis for synthesis of the Finnish Change
Laboratory intervention method and the French intervention method of the
Clinic of Activity. On the basis of formative interventions conducted by
utilizing these methods, she has developed foundations for an intervention
methodology which, while built on Vygotsky’s
principle of double stimulation, uses participants’ autobiographical accounts
of critical conflicts as material to trigger expansive processes of
experiencing and transformation of activities. Examples
of my research sites Results of
her research have been published in 34 refereed publications in English,
Finnish, French, and Italian.10 of these publications are articles in leading
international peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journals such
as the Journal of Organizational Change Management, the Journal of
Pragmatics, the Journal for
the Theory of Social Behaviour, Mind, Culture, and
Activity, Teaching and Teacher Education. She is the leading editor of the special issue on
Activity Theory and School Change published in 2008 in the Journal of
Educational Change and of the forthcoming special issue on Cultural-historical Activity
Theory and Interventionist Methodology in the journal Theory & Psychology. She is also the leading editor of the volume
Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory (co-edited with Harry Daniels and
Kris Gutierrez) published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. Her
publications have attracted
several invitations to give keynote speeches in peer-reviewed,
internationally established conferences and advanced schools. |
