Encounters Between East and West Book Series
Pseudo psychology, country branding and superiority
End of our summer course: UNDERSTANDING FINNISH EDUCATION: FROM MYTHS TO REALITIES
Thanks to all the participants and lecturers for this very enriching and fruitful summer school.
We are thinking of organising a similar course next year. Stay tuned!
“Finnish education is famous worldwide, especially thanks to the PISA tests. Thousands of specialists and students have visited the country to witness its educational ‘miracle’. This course proposes to introduce Finnish education and discuss its characteristics. By so doing the course offers a new approach to the success of Finnish education by looking at both myths and realities. The course is taught by specialists from the Department of Teacher Education, and the students will have the opportunity to visit schools and educational institutions. During the course the students will also follow how international and Finnish media discuss education”.
I support…
ENGAGING FUTURE WORKPLACE at Helsinki Challenge
Info HERE
TEAM: Team leader Kirsti Lonka (professor, UH, Department of Teacher Education), Kai Hakkarainen (professor, UH), Leena Krokfors (professor, UH), Suvi Nenonen (adjunct professor, research manager, Aalto University), Katariina Salmela-Aro (professor, UH), Jarmo Suominen (professor, Aalto University), Niclas Sandström (PhD Candidate, UH), Lauri Vaara (PhD Student, UH).
Turku event: Theorising cultural confluence
Brochure new Master’s Programme
You will find HERE the brochure of the new Master’s Programme in English that I am co-directing with Kristiina Brunila at Helsinki. Starting 2016…
EDISO = Education, Diversities and Social Justice
Wise words from Arendt… again
“I am not moved by any ‘love’ of this sort, and for two reasons: I have never in my life ‘loved’ any people or collective – neither the German people, nor the French, nor the American, nor the working class or anything of that sort. I indeed love ‘only’ my friends and the only kind of love I know of and believe in is the love of persons”.
Hannah Arendt
New article (with E. Punakallio)
Punakallio, E. & F. Dervin (2015). The best and most respected teachers in the world? Counternarratives about the ‘Finnish miracle of education’ in the press. Power and Education.
available HERE (draft)
CFC: International students in China: Education, student life and intercultural encounters
Call for Chapters
International students in China: Education, student life and intercultural encounters
Eds. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland), Xiangyun Du (Aalborg University, Denmark) & Anu Härkönen (TUAS & University of Helsinki, Finland)
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2015
Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective (Series Editors: Dervin/Du)
CFC available HERE