University of Helsinki

Faculty Member, Department of Education

Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE)

About

Annalisa Sannino is University Lecturer in the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at University of Helsinki. 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. She has published research articles in refereed journals in English, French, and Italian. She is the leading editor of the special issue on Activity Theory and School Change (co-edited with Honorine Nocon) published in 2008 in the Journal of Educational Change. 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.

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