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Per Anderhag is a leading voice in technology education, with a focused research agenda on how primary and lower secondary school students learn programming and robotics. His work uniquely bridges the cognitive and the aesthetic, exploring not just *what* students learn, but *how* they experience the learning process. In his 2021 study on primary school students’ spontaneous programming language, Anderhag investigated how young learners (years 1 and 4) perceive functionality when controlling a simple robot, revealing the critical role of classroom dialogue in developing computational thinking. His most cited work, “Aesthetic experience in technology education” (2024), breaks new ground by reframing aesthetics not merely as appreciation of design, but as a fundamental driver of learning in robotic programming. This paper has quickly garnered attention for its novel theoretical contribution. Further, his 2023 study on student strategies for programming a robot to follow a curved line provides practical insights into problem-solving in authentic classroom settings. With a growing citation footprint and a clear trajectory toward understanding the interplay of cognition, aesthetics, and technology, Anderhag is shaping how we think about meaningful, engaging programming education for the digital age.