Articles and chapters

Kumpulainen, K. (2026, in press). Sociocultural perspectives on digital literacies and agency: Epistemic, relational, and transformative dimensions. In B. Baker (Ed.), Handbook of digital literacies research. Edward Elger Publishing.

Kumpulainen, K. Renshaw, P., Byman, J., Jackson, K., Renlund, J., Tooth, R., & Wong, C. C. (2026, in press). ‘StoryWalking Ethnography’: Relating, learning and becoming with places through enchantment. In J. Green, K. Machtmes, M. L. Castanheira, & K. Kumpulainen (Eds.), Ethnography of, in, and for education: Developing logics-of-inquiry. Edward Elger Publishing.

Conference papers

Kumpulainen, K., Dadkhafarad, S., Rajagopal, H., Wong, M., Vadeboncouer, J., & Burke, A. (2026, April).

Augmented Storying: Forest entanglements and more-than-human narratives in children’s AR stories. A paper accepted for the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Los Angeles.

Vadeboncoeur, J., Monestel Mora, N., & Brooke, A. (2026, April). Toward ecological justice in urban green spaces: Engaging secondary students through walking. A paper accepted for the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Los Angeles.

Berger, I., Hare, J., Kumpulainen, K., & Rajagopal, H. (2026, May/forthcoming). Shapeshifting Childhoods: Navigating boundaries of space, time, agency and identity. A symposium proposal submitted to the XI Conference on Childhood Studies – Childhood and Boundaries, Joensuu, Finland.

Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J., Dadkhahfard, S., Rajagopal, H., Renlund, J., Wong, C.-C., & Wong, M. (2026, May/forthcoming). Living Temporalities: Ecological chronotopes in children’s augmented forest storying. A symposium proposal submitted to the XI Conference on Childhood Studies – Childhood and Boundaries, Joensuu, Finland.

Kumpulainen, K., & Willett, R. (2026, May). Non-linear time in children’s lives.A symposium proposal submitted to the XI Conference on Childhood Studies – Childhood and Boundaries, Joensuu, Finland.

Kumpulainen, K., & Dadkhafarad, S. (2026, June). Children’s Augmented Reality Narratives: Exploring forest entanglements and more-than-human storytelling. A paper submitted to the Annual Conference of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Irvine. Wang, Q., & Kumpulainen, K. (2026, June). Worlding With Bees: iPad readings and AR explorations as multispecies pedagogies. A paper submitted to the Annual Conference of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Irvine.

Invited presentations

Kumpulainen, K. (2026, July). Invited keynote and plenary speaker at the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association, ALEA 2026 National Conference ‘Lighting the Way for Literacy: Empowering Voices, Thinking Critically, Creating Communities’ as a keynote and plenary speaker. Fremantle, Australia.

Kumpulainen, K. (2025, September). An invited talk ‘Storywalking: A more-than-human ethnography of literacy, place and imagination’ at the LLED Research Seminar ‘What are the affordances and constraints of doing ethnography for language and literacy education research’, Faculty of Education, UBC, https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/what-are-the-affordances-and-constraints-of-doing-ethnography-for-language-and-literacy-education-research/

Kumpulainen, K. (2025, July). International keynote at the Educator Public Event ‘Digital technologies in early childhood’ of the Digital Child Annual Meeting (DCAM) of the Australian Research Center of Excellence, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Kumpulainen, K. (2025, May). Moral imagining beyond us: Immersing with children’s augmented storying of ‘more-than-human’ relations. Invited presentation at a symposium ‘Rethinking context as process when studying human development: Implications for theory, practice and policy’. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Belgrade, Serbia.

Kumpulainen, K. (2024, October). Invited presentation at the ‘Futures of Educational Design’ symposium, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Kumpulainen, K. (2024, September). Invited discussant of a symposium “Researching perezhivanie and soperezhivanie across domains and contexts” at the EARLI SIG Conference, Bari, Italy.