Åsa Mäkitalo - a brief presentation
Title: Reader/Associate Professor
Unit: Learning and Teaching
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2357
E-mail: asa.makitalo@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
My research, which is rooted in a sociocultural and dialogic tradition, deals with issues of communicative and cognitive socialization in institutional settings—what it entails to acquire, collectively sustain, and develop knowledge in various kinds of organizations and social institutions.
Teaching interests:
In basic and advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and external courses
Keywords:
communication, organization, categorizing, knowledge development, learning
Selected publications:
Mäkitalo, Å., Jakobsson, A. & Säljö, R. (in press). Learning to reason in the context of socioscientifi c problems: exploring the demands on students in ‘new’ classroom activities.
K. Kumpulainen & M. César (Eds.), Investigating classroom interaction: methodological choices and challenges.
Mäkitalo, Å. (2005). Dokumentation som formerande resurs. Om institutioners immanenta pedagogik. Nordisk Pedagogik(2), 123–138.
Mäkitalo, Å., & Säljö, R. (2004). Mécanismes socio-cognitifs et communication. Les catégories technique dans le discours. In V. Paul & J. Perriault (Eds.), Hermès 39 cognition, communication, politique. Critique de la raison numérique. (Vol. 39, pp. 116–123).
Mäkitalo, Å., & Säljö, R. (2004). Kategorier i tänkande och samtal: att studera kognition och kommunikation i sociala praktiker. In C. M. Allwood (Ed.), Perspektiv på kvalitativ metod (pp. 129–154). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Mäkitalo, Å. (2003). Accounting practices as situated knowing: Dilemmas and dynamics in institutional categorization. Discourse Studies, 5(4), 495–516.
Mäkitalo, Å., & Säljö, R. (2002b). Talk in institutional context and institutional context in talk: Categories as situated practices. TEXT, 22(1), 57–82.
Mäkitalo, Å., & Säljö, R. (2002a). Invisible people: Institutional reasoning and refl exivity in the production of services and ’social facts’ in public employment agencies. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 9(3), 160–178.
Mäkitalo, Å. (2002). Categorizing work: Knowing, arguing, and social dilemmas in vocational guidance. Göteborg: ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
Links to research groups and projects:
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http://www.uta.fi /laitokset/sospol/danaswac/index.htm