CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Education
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Nancy, France, December 2000, with the highest mark given to a dissertation in France: ‘Très Honorable avec Félicitations du Jury’
Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) - Psychology
University of Nancy, France, 1997
M.A., Literary Subjects: Psychology, Pedagogy and Didactic, University of Salerno, Italy, 1996
Posts and positions of primary importance
2008-present: University lecturer (2-year contract ending in July 2009), Department of Education, University of Helsinki
From 2004-2005: Responsible for the teaching of General Psychology, Master´s Program in Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Salerno, Italy
From 2003-2005: Responsible for the teaching of Psychology of Learning and Memory, Master´s Program in Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Salerno, Italy
From 2002-2008: Researcher (permanent position), Department of Education, University of Salerno, Italy
2002-2003: Lecturer (fixed-term teaching contracts), Department of Communication, University of California San Diego, USA
1997-1999: Lecturer (fixed-term teaching contracts), Department of Psychology, University of Nancy, France
Research Allocations and Grants
2003: Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California San Diego, USA
2007-2008: Personal grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for the research project “Research interventions as developmental spaces: At the interface of discourse and activity”.
The Most Significant Expert Assignment and Position of Trust in the Academic World
National and international collaborative projects
Sub-project leader of the 4-year project "Opening pathways to competence and employment for immigrants" (OPCE, 2009-2012), funded by the Academy of Finland (400.000 euros), P.I. Johanna Lasonen, University of Jyväskylä.
June 2004/July 2005: principal investigator of the project “Quinta Dimensione”, University of Salerno in collaboration with Direzione Didattica di Fisciano, Italy and within the international consortium NewUCLinks, University of California San Diego, USA
From November 1998 to November 2002: Representative for France (University of Nancy 2) in the European research program COST A11 ‘Transferability, Flexibility and Mobility as Targets of Vocational Education and Training’, Working Group ‘Interaction between different teaching-learning environements’ (Coordinators: Professors Yrjö Engeström and Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn).
Invited keynote addresses
June 2009: Invited Keynote Emancipatory use of writing and the genesis of intentionality. 4th International Workshop 14th of June, 2009, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
June 2009: Invited Keynote The predictable failure of sustainable innovations in school? From warrants to actions and back to the future. 6th International Symposium New Learning Challenges, 12th of June, 2009, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan.
December 2008: Invited Keynote Experiencing conversations: Bridging the gap between discourse and activity, International conference Learning08, University of Luxembourg, 11th of December 2008.
Referee commissions for journals
Reviewer for the Journal for the theory of Social Behaviour, since December 2008
Reviewer for Educational Research Review, since October 2007
Reviewer, Special issue of the Journal of Workplace Learning, The third generation activity theory and workplace learning: Fall 2006
Reviewer, Special issue Transitions of the European Journal of Psychology of Education: Fall 2006
Reviewer, Special issue of International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (IJHRDM), Activity Theory for Organizational Development and Management: Spring 2002
List of selected publications
Refereed articles in journals
Sannino, A. (in press). Teachers' talk of experiencing: Conflict, resistance and agency. Teaching and Teacher Education.
Engeström, Y. & Sannino, A. (in press). Studies of expansive learning: Foundations, findings and future challenges. Educational Research Review.
Sannino, A. (2008a). Sustaining a non-dominant activity in school: Only a utopia? Journal of Educational Change, 9(4), 329-338.
Sannino, A. (2008b). Experiencing conversations: Bridging the gap between discourse and activity. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 267-291.
Sannino, A. (2008c). From talk to action: Experiencing interlocution in developmental interventions. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 15(3), 234-257.
Sannino, A. & Nocon, H. (2008d). Introduction: Activity theory and school innovation. Journal of Educational Change, 9(4), 325-328
Sannino, A. (2006). Analyzing discontinuous speech in EU conversations: A methodological proposal. Journal of Pragmatics, 38(4), 543-566.
Sannino, A. & Trognon, A. (2004). Un'introduzione alla Logica Interlocutoria: Come studiare l’interlocuzione per accedere alle dinamiche generative del pensiero e dei rapporti sociali. [Introduction to Interlocutionary Logic: How to study interlocution in order to access to the generative dynamics of thinking and social relationships]. Ricerche di Psicologia, 27(4) 143-174. (in Italian)
Sannino, A. , Trognon, A. , Dessagne, L. , Kostulski, K. (2001). Les connaissances émergeant d'une relation tuteur-apprenti sur le lieu de travail [Knowledge emerging from a relationship between tutors and apprentices in the workplace]. Bulletin de Psychologie , 54(3), 453, pp. 261- 273. (in French)
Edited books and special issues
Sannino, A. & Sutter, B. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Cultural-historical activity theory and interventionist methodology: Classical legacy and contemporary developments. Theory & Psychology.
Sannino, A., Daniels, H. & Gutierrez, K. (Eds.) (2009). Learning and expanding with activity theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sannino, A. & Nocon H. D. (Eds.) (2008). Activity theory and school innovation. Special issue of Journal of Educational Change, 9, 4.
Ajello, A.M., Engeström, Y., Sannino, A., Tuomi-Gröhn, T. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Apprendere tra scuola e lavoro [Learning between school and work]. Bologna: Il Mulino. (in Italian)
Scientific articles in edited books
Sannino, A. (in press). Breaking out of a professional abstraction: The pupil as materialized object for teacher trainees. In V. Ellis, A. Edwards & P. Smagorinsky (Eds.), Learning teachers: Cultural-historical perspectives on teacher education and development. London: Routlege.
Sannino, A., Daniels, H. Gutierrez, K. (2009). Editors’ introduction. In A. Sannino, H. Daniels & K. Gutierrez (Eds.), Learning and expanding with activity theory (pp. xi-xxi). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sannino, A., Daniels, H. Gutierrez, K. (2009). Activity theory between historical engagement and future-making practice. In A. Sannino, H. Daniels & K. Gutierrez (Eds.), Learning and expanding with activity theory (pp. 1-15). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sannino, A. (2005). Cultural-historical and discursive tools for analyzing critical conflicts in students’ development. In K. Yamazumi, Y. Engeström & H. Daniels (Eds.), New learning challenges: Going beyond the industrial age system of school and work (pp. 165-195). Osaka: Kansai University Press.
Sannino, A. , Trognon, A. & Dessagne, L. (2003). A model for analyzing knowledge content and processes of learning a trade within alternance vocational training. In T. Tuomi-Gröhn & Y. Engeström (Eds.), Between school and work: New perspectives on transfer and boundary crossing (pp.267-285). Amsterdam: Pergamon.
Sannino, A. (1998). L’accomplissement interlocutoire et intergestuel d’une interaction en situation de travail [Interlocutionary and intergestural interactions at work]. In K. Kostulski & A. Trognon (Eds.), Communications Interactives dans les Groupes de Travail [Interactive Communications in Working Groups] (p.123-157). Nancy, Presses Universitaires de Nancy. (in French)
Monographs
Sannino, A. (2002). L'élaboration des avis dans une assemblée consultative de l'Union européenne: un jeu de langage dans un collectif complexe et en évolution [Developing opinions in a Consultative Assembly of the European Union: Language game of a complex collective in evolution]. Villeneuve D’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. (in French)
Other publications
Sannino, A., Maglione, A., Ammaturo, G., Basile, I., Caputo, M., Ciardi, T., Palmentieri, A., Savoia, M. G. & Stanzione, A. (2002). Formare gli esperti nei processi formativi. Attività del seminario d’orientamento teorico-pratico [Training experts in training processes: Activities of a theoretical and practical orientation seminar], Centro Elaborazione Dati Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano.
(Book containing a report and portfolio of a pedagogical experiment, in Italian)
Translations
Sannino, A. (2009). Translation from French of the chapter by Yves Clot “Clinic of Activity: The dialogue as instrument”, in In A. Sannino, H. Daniels & K. Gutierrez (Eds.), Learning and expanding with activity theory (pp. 286-302). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.