Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development Societal, Institutional and Personal Perspectives

Anne Edwards is Professor Emerita at the University of Oxford Department of Education and a Fellow of St Hilda’s College. Employing cultural-historical theory, her research examines professional learning in the helping professions. She focuses on the relational turn in expertise and the concepts of relational expertise, common knowledge and relational agency. These concepts also inform her work on user engagement with research. 

Laureate Professor Marilyn Fleer holds the Foundation Chair of Early Childhood Education and Development at Monash University, Australia. She was awarded the 2018 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council and is a former President of the International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR). Additionally, she is an honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and has a second professor position at the KINDKNOW Centre, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Louise Bøttcher is an Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education and is associated with the research programme Future Technology, Culture and Learning. Taking cultural-historical activity theory and developmental neuropsychology as starting points, her research is aimed at understanding the development of children and adolescents with disabilities.