Re-theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research

Crina Damşa is an associate professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway.Antti Rajala is senior research fellow at the School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland.Giuseppe Ritella is a senior researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy.Jasperina Brouwer is an assistant professor in the Department of Education, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

• 1 Researching the learning of knowledge transformation; 2 Ecological perspectives on learning and methodological implications for research; 3 Dialogic learning with the ‘more-than-human world’: Insights from posthuman theorising; 4 Learning in dialogues through aesthetic experiences. Some theoretical and methodological issues; 5 Analytical-methodological entanglements. On learning to (re)notice what, where, when, why and by whom in the re-search enterprise; 6 Commentary on Section A: Theoretical research driving methodological development; 7 The dynamics of social networks: Towards a better understanding of selection and influence mechanisms in social capital building; 8 Making visible what seems to be invisible in mathematical problem-solving: Integrating qualitative methods; 9 Towards a cognitive theory of visual expertise: Methods of inquiry; 10 The multi-method autobiographical approach and its contribution to the Funds of Identity theory; 11 Methodological explorations of the study of access, inclusion and participation in and across digital/physical space and time boundaries.; 12 Untangling sociomateriality: Tracing socio-discursive and materially embodied aspects of knowledge-creating learning through Making-Process Rugs; 13 Reflection – How methodological innovation contributes to theory development: A new materialist approach; 14 Learning analytics and societal challenges: capturing value for education and learning ; 15 Distributed design: Learning to work with novel potentialities of digital 3D technology; 16 Hybridizing in and out-of-school learning; 18 Using mixed methods social network analysis to study teacher collaboration for migrant inclusion in a Swedish school; 19 Utopian Methodologies to Address the Social and Ecological Crises Through Educational Research; 20 Research on learning during times of crisis