Towards a shared vision of language, language learning, and a school project in emergence

Abstract

Riikka Tumelius is a language teacher educator, language teacher, and doctoral candidate. Her research interests include the complexity of multimodal interaction in language learning and language pedagogies in the light of our technologically changing everyday life. She applies nexus analytical methodologies in her research. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6909-8339 Leena Kuure is an adjunct professor with an interest in mediated discourse theory and nexus analysis, which focus on social action and invite multidisciplinary collaboration. Her research fields include multimodal and networked literacy practices in technology-rich environments and participation in constructing the future school.

Educational Participatory Design in the Crossroads of Histories and Practices – Aiming for Digital Transformation in Language Pedagogy

“…The course had been repeated over several years with the aim to trigger change in the participants’ thinking about the future of language learning and teaching. It had proved difficult for students to distance themselves from habitual language teaching practices and orient to the future (see Tumelius and Kuure, 2021 , Tumelius et al, 2022 ), due to prevailing print-oriented teaching practices and classroom-oriented emphasis in teacher education among others. The EPD approach was seen to be a potentially effective way for advancing the goal.…”