In 2021, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) tracked 729 challenges to school, library, and university collections. Considering that in 2020 OIF recorded 156 challenges, last year’s increase was dramatic enough catch attention of news outlets social media users across United States. As a result, libraries all kinds were positioned make often difficult decisi...

In the article presented we deal with an innovative approach to collaborative work and learning. This approach is called trialogical learning and has emerged from several theories that describe the creation of new knowledge, e.g. Carl Bereiter’s knowledge building approach, Yrjö Engeström’s theory of expansive learning based on Activity Theory and Nonaka and Takeuchi’s model of organizational k...

I think that an underappreciated factor in succeeding as a principal investigator is getting the lab’s internal culture right. For my lab, the goal is an environment that is highly collaborative, e.g., with open sharing and recombination of raw ideas into better ideas. We havemanaged to maintain a highly collegial, drama-free environment over these past 7 years, but as the lab has gotten bigger...