Handling Mind research was well presented at the international NordFo2016 conference Make it NOW! Learning, Exploring, Understanding that took place September 28th-30th. The conference was hosted by the Rauma Unit of University of Turku, and the conference was part of the anniversary celebration of 120 years of teacher education in Rauma.
Rauma campus has a windmill.
Photo by Mari Salovaara
One of the conference excursions introduced history and today of lacemaking at Rauma:
Photo by Mari Salovaara
Photo by Kaiju Kangas
In the conference, we had total four presentations:
- Video as a tool for knowing in craft practice by Camilla Groth
- Studying utilisation of meaning-laden embodied resources in collaborative designing – methodological challenges of gesture studies by Tellervo Härkki and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen
- Methods for research on experimental and embodied knowledge by Camilla Groth
- Design tasks and materials as affordances for collaborating craft teacher students by Henna Lahti, Kaiju Kangas, Tellervo Härkki and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen
The first three abstracts are available here, and the last one can be found here.