Leena Kuure

PhD, Lic.Phil.
Researcher Emerita, Adjunct Professor
English Language, Applied Language Studies

Languages and Literature
Faculty of Humanities

I am a Researcher Emerita at the University of Oulu, Research Unit for Languages and Literature (English), and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Applied Language Studies (University of Eastern Finland). I am a member of the COACT research community, esp. in the field of Participation, learning, technology, and in the multidisciplinary research group EveLINE, which examines technology-rich everyday life, children's participation and the future school.

Research interests

The ecology and change of language pedagogy in a technology-rich world
Hybrid environments and social action
Nexus analysis

Researcher information

Research groups

COACT - Complexity of (inter)action and multimodal participation

Researcher profiles

Professional and community activities

Thesis supervisions

Selected publications

Full list of publications at https://cc.oulu.fi/~lkuure/publications.html

Hartikainen, H., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Cortés Orduña, M., Sanchez Milara, I., Käsmä, M., & Kuure, L. (2024). Making The Future School: An Analysis of Teens’ Collaborative Digital Fabrication Project. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8, CSCW1, Article 91, 1-37 https://doi.org/10.1145/3637368

Iivari, N., & Kuure, L. (2024). Towards transdisciplinary design research as a delicate dance. European Journal of Information Systems. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2024.2314654 free e-print

Kinnula, M., Iivari, N., Kuure, L., & Molin-Juustila, T. (2023). Educational participatory design in the crossroads of histories and practices – Aiming for digital transformation in language pedagogy. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 32, 745–780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-023-09473-8

Tumelius, R., & Kuure, L. (2022). Pre-service teachers’ professional vision and agency emerging in orchestrating language learning in a hybrid space. Computer Assisted Language Learning. DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2022.2092154

Tumelius, R., Kuure, L., & Riekki, M. (2022). A design-driven approach to language teacher education in the era of digitalization. In J.-P. Alarauhio, T. Räisänen, J. Toikkanen & R. Tumelius (Eds.), Shaping the North through multimodal and intermedial interaction (pp. 19-40). Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99104-3_2

Kuure, L., Keisanen, T., & Tumelius, R. (2022), Design-driven language teacher education as a transdisciplinary field. In D. Rajanen et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Mini-Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Design (TRaD 2022). INTERACT No 6, June 2022 (pp. 34–39). University of Oulu, Finland. https://interact.oulu.fi/site/files/2022-06/interact-6-2022.pdf

Halkola, E., & Kuure, L. (2021). How teachers participate in the infrastructuring of an educational network. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48 (32), 265–283. DOI: 10.17705/1CAIS.04832

Tumelius, R., & Kuure, L. (2021). Towards a shared vision of language, language learning and a school project in emergence. Classroom Discourse, 12 (4), 344-364. DOI: 10.1080/19463014.2020.1808495

Kuure, L., Keisanen, T., Iivari, N., & Kinnula, M. (2020). A Making project at school as a nexus of practice: From interdisciplinarity to zones of identification. In S. Grasz, T. Keisanen, F. Oloff, M. Rauniomaa, I. Rautiainen & M. Siromaa (Eds) Menetelmällisiä käänteitä soveltavassa kielentutkimuksessa – Methodological Turns in Applied Language Studies (pp. 137–154). AFinLAn vuosikirja 2020. Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen julkaisuja n:o 78. Jyväskylä. DOI: 10.30661/afinlavk.89459

Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Kuure, L. & Keisanen, T. (2020). "Arseing around was fun!" – humor as a resource in design and Making. In Proceedings of CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13. New York: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376169

Kuure, L., Riekki, M., & Tumelius, R. (2018). Nexus analysis in the study of the changing field of language learning, language pedagogy and language teacher education. AFinLA-e: Soveltavan Kielitieteen Tutkimuksia, 11, 71-92. DOI: 10.30660/afinla.69208

Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Molin-Juustila, T., & Kuure, L. (2018). Exclusions in social inclusion projects: Struggles in involving children in digital technology development. Information Systems Journal, 28(6), 1020-1048. DOI:10.1111/isj.12180

Kuure, L. (2018). Language students designing a learning project for children: a matter of managing multiple attention spaces. In G. Murray & T. Lamb (Eds.), Space, Place and Autonomy in Language Learning (pp. 113-127). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781317220909-8

Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Molin-Juustila, T., & Kuure, L. (2017). Multiple voices in the maker movement - a nexus analytic literature review of children and making research. ECIS 2017, 25th European Conference on Information Systems, Guimarães, Portugal, June 5-10, 2017, pp. 1919-1933. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/123

Koivistoinen, H., Kuure, L. & Tapio, E. (2016). Appropriating a new language learning approach: Processes of resemiotisation. Apples - Journal for Applied Language Studies, 10(2), pp. 105-117. DOI: 10.17011/apples/urn.201612145091

Luoma, P., Kinnula, M., Kuure, L., Halkola, E. & Riekki, M. (2016) The planning and building of a new residential community: A discourses survey. Apples - Journal for Applied Language Studies, 10(2), pp. 5-27. DOI: 10.17011/apples/urn.201609194144

Kuure, L., Molin-Juustila, T., Keisanen, T., Riekki, M., Iivari, N. & Kinnula, M. (2016). Switching perspectives: From a language teacher to a designer of language learning with new technologies. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 29(5), 925-941. DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2015.1068815

Contact information

E-mail

leena.kuure@oulu.fi

Postal address

Research Unit for Languages and Literature (English Language)
P.O.Box 1000, FI-90014 University of Oulu

Keywords

Humanities Languages cultural practices discourse language learning language pedagogy multidisciplinarity