Publications
Kumpulainen, K., Renlund R., Byman J., & Wong C.C. (2024 in press). Trees that invite children to story with the more-than-human world. In Iannaccone A., Cattaruzza E., Schwab E. (Eds.) Expériences socio-matérielles: objects, interactions et espaces. Éditions Alphil, Neuchâte.
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Byman, J., Kumpulainen, K., & Renlund, J. (2024 in press). Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates, and Amphibians. I Rautio, P., Riley, K., Jukes, S. (Eds.) Relational Ontologies and Multispecies Worlds: Transdisciplinary Possibilities for Environmental Education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education.
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Renlund, J., Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J., Wong, C-C., & Sintonen, S. (2024 in press). Aesthetic Flux: Inquiring into the sensuous dynamics of children, matter and environments with a more-than-human lens. Environmental Education Research.
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Byman, J., Kumpulainen, K., Renlund, J., Wong, C.-C., & Renshaw, P. (2023). Speculative spaces: Children exploring socio-ecological worlds with mythical nature spirits. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491231162152
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Kristiina Kumpulainen, Chin-Chin Wong, Jenny Byman, Jenny Renlund & Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur (2023) Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying, The Journal of Environmental Education, 54:1, 33-45, DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2022.2152407
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Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J. Renlund, J., & Wong, C. C. (under press). Dialogic learning with the ‘more-than-human world’: Insights from posthuman theorising. In C. DamÅŸa, A. Rajala, G. Ritella, & J. Brouwer (Eds.), Re-theorizing learning and research methods in learning research. Routledge.
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Leskinen, J. (2023). Fostering distributed leadership and collective innovation practices in a primary school’s makerspace – A sociocultural investigation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/563671
Leskinen, J., Kajamaa, A., & Kumpulainen, K. (2023). Learning to innovate: Students and teachers constructing collective innovation practices in a primary school's makerspace. Frontiers in education, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.936724
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Nordström, A. (2023). Joy in young children’s literacy practices in early childhood education. Doctoral thesis. Helsinki Studies in Education 155. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/352352
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Sintonen, S., & Nordström, A. (2023). Posthuman Babies: Reconceptualizing a Baby’s First Year. In J. Osgood, & M. Sakr (Eds.), Postdevelopmental Approaches to Pedagogical Observation in Childhood. Bloomsbury Academic.
Kumpulainen, K. (2022). Bridging dichotomies between children, nature, and digital technologies. In Kumpulainen, K., Kajamaa, A., Erstad, O., Mäkitalo, Å., Drotner, K., Jakobsdóttir, S. (Eds.), Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication. Routledge.
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Renlund, J, Kumpulainen, K, Wong, C.C, & Jenny Byman (2022) Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds, Children’s Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2121914
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Renlund, J., Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J. & Wong, C. C., (2022) ‘I could smell the sound of winter’: Children’s aesthetic experiences in their local forest through digital storying. In Kumpulainen, K., Kajamaa, A., Erstad, O., Mäkitalo, Å., Drotner, K., Jakobsdóttir, S. (Eds.), Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication. Routledge.
Byman, J., Renlund, J., Wong, C. C., and Kumpulainen, K. (2022). Listening to and learning from children’s voices and experiences in environmental discussions. Blogpost, Kone Foundation.
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Byman, J., Kumpulainen, K., Wong, C. C. & Renlund, J. (2022) Children’s emotional experiences in and about nature across temporal-spatial entanglements during digital storying. Literacy (Oxford, England), 56 (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12265
Nordström, A., Sairanen, H., Byman, J., Renlund, J., Sintonen, S. (2022). Widening Text Worlds in Finnish Early Childhood Education. In: Harju-Luukkainen, H., Kangas, J., Garvis, S. (eds) Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care . Early Childhood Research and Education: An Inter-theoretical Focus, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95512-0_4
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Nordström, A. (2022). Reimagining joy as a performative force in early childhood education. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14639491221089332
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Renlund J., & Byman, J. (2021). Lasten äänet ja kokemukset kuuluviin ympäristökeskusteluissa. Blogpost, Maj and Tor Nessling foundation.
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Hilppö, J., Vartiainen, J., & Silander, P. (2022). Perspectives on the Finnish Early Years STEAM Education: Reflecting on the Avant-Garde. In S. Tunnicliffe, & T. Kennedy (Eds.), Play and STEM Education in the Early Years: International Policies and Practices. (pp. 219-235). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99830-1_11
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Lavonen, L., Loukomies, A., Vartiainen, J., & Palojoki, P. (2022). Supporting Pupils' scientific and engineering practices in everyday life contexts at the primary school level during a project-based learning unit in Finland. Education 3-13, 50(7), 918-933. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2021.1921823
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Leskinen, J., Kumpulainen, K., Kajamaa, A.(2022). Finnish Teachers’ leadership narratives in a school’s makerspace. In K. Kumpulainen, A. Kajamaa, O. Erstad, Å, Mäkitalo, K. Drotner, S. Jakobsdóttir (Eds.), Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age. Routledge. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145257
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Sairanen, H., Kumpulainen, K., Nordström, A., & Kajamaa, A. (2022). Young children initiating and negotiating their digital literacy practices in their homes. In K. Kumpulainen, A. Kajamaa, O. Erstad, Å. Mäkitalo, K. Drotner, & S. Jakobsdóttir (Eds.), Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into contemporary research on communication, learning and education (1 ed., pp. 53-65). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145257-8
Wong, C. C., Kumpulainen, K., & Kajamaa, A. (2021). Collaborative creativity among education professionals in a co-design workshop: A multidimensional analysis. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 42, 100971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100971
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Wong, C. C., Kumpulainen, K., Renlund, J. & Byman, J. (2021) Riddle of the Spirit: Cultivating children’s ecological imagination through multiliteracies pedagogy, proceedings of International Society of Learning Sciences (ISLS) 2021 Annual Meeting, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
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Kumpulainen, K., Renlund, J., Byman, J. & Wong, C. C. (2021) Empathetic encounters of children’s augmented storying across the human and more-than-human worlds. International Studies in Sociology of Education. Link
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Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J., Renlund; J., Wong, C. C., & Vadeboncoeur, J. (2021). Relational entanglements of children’s ecological imagination: An investigation into augmented storying [Accepted paper]. 2021 Annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference.
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Leskinen, J., Kumpulainen, K., Kajamaa, A., & Rajala, A. (2021). The emergence of leadership in students’ group interaction in a school-based makerspace. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 36(4), 1033–1053. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00509-x
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Nordström, A., Kumpulainen, K., & Rajala, A. (2021). Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14687984211038662
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Vartiainen, J. (2021). Play Is a Pathway to Science: STEAM education in early childhood. Childhood Education, 97(5), 56-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/00094056.2021.1982295
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Vartiainen, J., & Lee, S. K. (2021). Kide Science: Play-based science learning. In F. M. Reimers, & R. Operetti (Eds.), Learning to Build Back Better Futures for Education: Lessons from educational innovation during the covid-19 pandemic (pp. 173 - 184). Unesco, Global Education Innovation Initiative.
Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J., Renlund, J., & Wong, C. C. (2020). “Puu on vähän niin kuin ihminen, sekin alkaa itkeä” – Luontosuhde ja maapallon tulevaisuus lasten kertomana. In E. Pekkarinen, & T. Tuukkanen (Eds.), Maapallon tulevaisuus ja lapsen oikeudet (pp. 51-67). (Lapsiasiavaltuutetun toimiston julkaisuja; No. 2020:4). Lapsiasianvaltuutetun toimisto.
Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J. Renlund, J & Wong, C. C. (2020). Children’s augmented storying in, with and for nature. Education Sciences, 10(6), 149.
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Wong, C. C. & Kumpulainen, K. (2019). Multiliteracies pedagogy promoting young children’s ecological literacy on climate change. In K. Kumpulainen & J. Sefton-Green (Eds.), Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond. London: Routledge.
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Sintonen, S., Nordström, A., Sairanen, H., & Kumpulainen, K. (2020). Pedagogisen Haltijan kuiskaus -materiaalin soveltaminen varhaiskasvatuksessa J. A. Hollon kasvatusajattelun luentana. Ainedidaktiikka, 4(2), 44-62. https://doi.org/10.23988/ad.79782
Kumpulainen, K., Sairanen, H., & Nordström, A. (2020). Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in the Sociocultural Contexts of their Homes. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 20(3), 472-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798420925116
Blum-Ross, A., Kumpulainen, K., & Marsh, J. (Eds.) (2019). Enhancing digital literacy and creativity: Makerspaces in the Early Years. London: Routledge.
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Kajamaa, A., Kumpulainen, K. & Olkinuora, H-R. (2019). Teacher interventions in students’ collaborative work in a technology-rich educational makerspace. British Journal of Educational Technology. DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12837.
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Kontopodis, M. & Kumpulainen, K. (2019). Researching Young Children’s Engagement and Learning in Makerspaces: Insights from Post-Vygotskian and Post-Human Perspectives. In Blum-Ross, A., Kumpulainen, K., & Marsh, J. (Eds.) Enhancing digital literacy and creativity: Makerspaces in the Early Years. London: Routledge.
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Kumpulainen, K. (2018). A principled, personalised, trusting and child-centric ECEC system in Finland. In S.L. Kagan (Ed.), The Early Advantage 1: Early Childhood Systems That Lead by Example – A Comparative Focus on International Early Childhood Education (pp. 72-98). New York: Teachers College Press.
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Kumpulainen, P. K. & Gillen, J. (2019). Young children’s digital literacy practices in homes: Past, present and future research directions. In O. Erstad, R. Flewitt, B. Kummerling-Meibauer, & I.S. Pires Pereira (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood. London: Routledge.
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Kumpulainen, K., Kajamaa, A., & Rajala, A. (2019). Motive-demand dynamics creating a social context for students’ learning experiences in a making and design environment. In A. Edwards, M. Fleer, & L. Bøttcher (Eds.). Cultural-historical approaches to studying learning and development: societal, institutional and personal perspectives. Perspectives in cultural-historical research(pp. 185-199). Singapore: Springer.
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Kumpulainen, K., Kajamaa, A. & Rajala, A. (2019). Oppilaiden toiminta ja oppimismahdollisuudet koulun digitaalisessa värkkääjäpajassa, NMI-bulletin, 29(2), 11-22.
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Kumpulainen, K. & Ouakrim-Soivio, N. (2019). “My Treasure Box”: Pedagogical documentation, digital portfolios and children’s agency in Finnish early years education. In A. Eckhoff, A. (Ed.), Participatory Research with Young Children (pp. 105-123). Cham: Springer.
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Kumpulainen, K., Rajala, A., & Kajamaa, A. (2019). Researching the materiality of communication in an educational makerspace: The meaning of social objects. In N. Mercer, R. Wegerif & L. Major (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education. London: Routledge.
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Kumpulainen, K. & Sefton-Green, J. (Eds.) (2019). Multiliteracies and early years innovation: Perspectives from Finland and beyond. London: Routledge.
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Kumpulainen, K. & Theron, L. (2019). Researching resilience processes in children’s everyday lives during transitioning to school: A dialogic approach. In D. Whitebread, V. Grau, K. Kumpulainen, M.M. McClelland, N.E. Perry, & D. Pino-Pasternak (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education (pp.80-94). Los Angeles: SAGE.
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Kumpulainen, K., Vartiainen, J., Ouakrim-Soivio, N., & Hienonen, N. (2019). Lasten kotiympäristöt monilukutaidon kehittymisen areenoina: Raportti pienten lasten huoltajille laaditusta kyselystä. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto. Accessed from: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/299859.
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Kajamaa, A. & Kumpulainen, K. (2019). Agency in the Making: Analyzing students’ transformative agency in a school-based makerspace. Mind, Culture and Activity.
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Kumpulainen, K., Sairanen, H. & Nordström A. (2019). Young children’s agency in their digital media use in the sociocultural contexts of their homes: A case study from Finland. In Brito, R. & Dias, P. (Eds.), Crianças, famílias e tecnologias. Que desa os? Que caminhos?: Children, families and technology in today’s society. What challenges? Which paths? (pp. 150-170). Lisboa: Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal.
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Nordström, A., Kumpulainen, K. & Potter, J., (2019). Positive affect in young children’s multiliteracies learning endeavours. In Kumpulainen, K. & Sefton-Green, J. (Eds.), Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond. London: Routledge.
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Salmi, S. & Kumpulainen, K. (2019). Children’s experiencing of their transition from preschool to first grade: A visual narrative study. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. 20, 58-67.
Sintonen, S. T., Nordström, A., Kumpulainen, P. K. & Sairanen, H. M. (2019, submitted). Pedagogisen Haltijan kuiskaus -materiaalin soveltaminen varhaiskasvatuksessa J. A. Hollon sivistyskasvatusajattelun luentana. Ainedidaktiikka.
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Vartiainen, J. & Kumpulainen, K. (2019). Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity: Makerspaces in the Early Years. In A. Blum-Ross, K. Kumpulainen, & J. Marsh (Eds.), Enhancing digital literacy and creativity: Makerspaces in the Early Years.London: Routledge.
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Whitebread, D., Grau, V., Kumpulainen, K., McClelland, M.M., Perry, N.E., & Pino-Pasternak, D. (Eds.)(2019). SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education. Los Angeles: SAGE.
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Marsh, J., Nordström, A., Sairanen, H., & Shkul, M. (2019). Making the Moomins: A Finnish/English Adventure. In K. Kumpulainen, & J. Sefton-Green (Eds.), Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond (pp. 131-147). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429432668-8