Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
My research themes:
- Research on educational interaction from early education to youth work contexts, particularly processes of student agency and engagement
- Cultural-historical (CHAT) research on adult-child joint play and play-based pedagogies
- Research on educational change and interventions, teachers’ professional development, dialectical contradictions in teachers’ work, and discursive methodologies in understanding sustained change in work practices
Distinctive to my research is to conduct methodologically rigorous empirical research that contributes to educational theory development with impact on educational practice. Characteristic to me as an academic scholar is to deeply engage with innovative pedagogical environments and educational settings that exceed typical institutional boundaries of education, and to ’live through’ and analyze together with the participating practitioners and the children the challenges and potentials they face when developing their practice. I am interested in the dialectical processes of institutional educational change from the perspective of practitioners and students and their agency development.
Teaching expertise:
- Educational Psychology
- Early Education and Care
- Classroom Teacher Education
- Phenomenon-Based Learning
- Play-Based Pedagogies
- Childhood Studies
- Qualitative research methods
- Discourse Analysis
- Video-based participatory ethnography
- Activity theory and socio-cultural paradigm
Fields of Science
- 516 Educational sciences
- Educational Psychology
- Play pedagogy
- Ethnography
- student agency
- School engagement
- Early Childhood Education
- Discourse Analysis
- interaction
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Abductive methodology: Opening the mystery of generating theory through qualitative inquiry in practice settings
Hofmann, R., Paavola, S. & Rainio, A., 2024, ECQI2024. Participation, collaboration and co-creation: Qualitative inquiry across and beyond divides. : Congress Proceedings. 7th European Congress for Qualitative Inquiry 2024. . Spisak, S. (ed.). Helsinki: University of Helsinki, p. 74-83 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Correction: Lecusay et al. Caring about and with Imaginary Characters: Early Childhood Playworlds as Sites for Social Sustainability. Sustainability 2022, 14, 5533
Lecusay, R., Rainio, A. P. & Ferholt, B., 2024, In: Sustainability. 16, 23, p. 10549-10549 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Learning “From and With” Trees: An Emerging International Playworld-Dance Collaboration to Slow Time
Rainio, A., Morris, E., Alexakos, D., Koistinen, J., Colon, J., Goldberg, K., Laborda, M. A. & Ferholt, B., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Multilogical approaches to education and research on birth, sustainable living, dying and death. Tobin, K. & Alexakos, K. (eds.). BrillResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Playworlds as Ways of Being: Romantic Science of Care, Art and Play
Ferholt, B., Rainio, A. P., Onodera Watanabe, R., Miyazaki, K., Grankvist, A. K., Johansson, E., Hure, J. & Nilsson, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Brill .Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Tulevaisuusdraaman avulla kohti luovaa ja kehollista tulevaisuuskasvatusta
Lampi, H. M., Pyykkö, A. & Rainio, A., 20 Nov 2024, p. 308. 1 p.Research output: Conference materials › Paper
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A tree of knowledge: Practicing slow science in accelerating society
Rainio, A. (Principal Investigator), Nagatsu, M. (Co-Principal Investigator), Hirsaho, A. (Project manager), Vainio, A. (Participant), Vähäkangas, A. (Participant), Betz-Heinemann, A. (Participant) & Nurmi, S. (Participant)
Univ Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Inst Social Sci & Humanities HSSH
01/11/2024 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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JOUKO: Muutos kohti joustavaa esi- ja alkuopetusta: Kouvolan kunnan tapaustutkimus
Rainio, A. (Project manager), Pesonen, J. (Project manager) & Hilppö, J. (Project manager)
02/01/2023 → …
Project: Research project
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The Art of knowing through (un)learning: A Transdisciplinary research study on time, play and dance with children and trees
Rainio, A. (Principal Investigator), Nagatsu, M. (Co-Principal Investigator), Ferholt, B. (Co-Principal Investigator), Talonen, V. (CoIlaborator), Koistinen, J. (CoIlaborator), Alexakos, D. (Participant) & Morris, E. (Participant)
01/08/2025 → 31/07/2028
Project: Research project
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LAKE: Expanding circles of empathy and compassion in early childhood education
Rainio, A. (Principal Investigator), Lipponen, L. (Principal Investigator), Kurenlahti, E. A. (Project manager), Nurhonen, L. J. (Project manager), Pursi, A. (Participant), Hilppö, J. (Participant) & Rajala, A. (Participant)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research project
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Pitkittäistutkimus huostaanotetuista lapsista Suomessa - OSA III Taidelähtöiset menetelmät nuorten kanssa tehtävässä työssä
Rainio, A. (Principal Investigator)
01/09/2009 → 01/02/2010
Project: Research project
Activities
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slow science as research activism
Nagatsu, M. (Speaker) & Rainio, A. (Speaker)
27 Feb 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Beth Ferholt
Rainio, A. (Host)
13 May 2024 → 20 May 2024Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Academic visit at UH
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Science, Fast and Slow
Nagatsu, M. (Speaker) & Rainio, A. (Speaker)
7 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Keynote lecture held at the 13th Panhellenic Conference of OMEP: Adult-child joint play: The transformative power of caring, playing and imagining
Rainio, A. (Keynote speaker)
26 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Nordic-Baltic ISCAR 2022
Hilppö, J. (Chair), Vetoshkina, L. (Chair of organizing committee), Kajamaa, A. (Scientific Committee Chair), Rainio, A. (Scientific Committee Member), Paavola, S. (Scientific Committee Member), Cornér, T. T. (Member of organizing committee), Kurenlahti, E. A. (Member of organizing committee), Toiviainen, H. (Scientific Committee Member), Lipponen, L. (Scientific Committee Member), Rajala, A. (Scientific Committee Member), Engeström, Y. (Speaker: Keynote), Miettinen, R. (Speaker: Keynote) & Vossoughi, S. (Speaker: Keynote)
14 Jun 2022 → 16 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars