Subjectivity and Knowledge

Charlotte Højholt is Professor of Social Psychology of Everyday Life in the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University, Denmark. The focus of her research is on children's everyday life, and she is working with theoretical development through Practice Research, a unity of empirical research and developmental work. Her studies explore children's participation in social practice, going across different life contexts such as family, school, kindergarten, recreation centers and special help arrangements. This has given a focus on the communities of children, their personal conduct of life and on the cooperation between the grown-ups (parents, teachers, pedagogues, psychologists). She has published widely in the areas of development, learning, professionalism, interdisciplinary work and methodology. She is head of the PhD program Social Psychology of Everyday Life at Roskilde University and of the inter-institutional research group Practice Research in Development.
Ernst Schraube is Professor of Social Psychology of Technology in the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University, Denmark. In his teaching and research, he focuses on the social and political implications of modern technologies in everyday life and he is currently working on a project on the significance of digital technologies in students' learning and conduct of everyday life. He published widely in psychology of technology, social psychology of everyday life, critical psychology, theoretical psychology as well as science and technology studies. The 1998-99 academic year he spent as a visiting research scholar in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA.