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Research at the Department of Teacher Education

The Department of Teacher Education conducts multidisciplinary, nationally, and internationally networked research covering a wide range of individual, community and societal issues in education, training, learning and teaching.

Research at the Department of Teacher Education

In our research, we look at education across the life course and different forms of education. Dialogue between research and practice is important to us, as is an orientation towards the education and training of the future.

Research at the department is related to teacher training and the development of teaching at different levels. Key themes in a number of studies include improving the quality of teacher education, supporting teachers' professional development, the impact of education policy on teaching, learning strategies and learning environments, and inclusive education.

Research focuses on five research areas, which are shared with the Department of Education.

Research areas

Learning, learning difficulties and affecting factors

A strong multidisciplinary line of research on learning and learning disabilities aims to identify and understand the factors that shape learning and how they interact at individual and group level.

Education, teaching and interventions

Research on education, teaching and interventions focuses on the research-based development of teaching, education and training practices and the identification and development of teaching and guidance interaction practices that support inclusion, learnin

Learning at work and well-being

Multidisciplinary and multi-method research in the area focuses on changes in working environments and ways of doing things.

Childhood and family

Research of childhood and family focuses on the growth and development of children, the everyday life of families and current phenomena affecting parenting.

Interactive and technologically enhanced learning environments

Research on interactive and technology-enhanced learning environments focuses on the study of learning, teaching and interaction processes in technological environments.

Research projects at the Department of Teacher Education

AdaptGuide - Adapting teacher guidance for different grades in technology-enhanced science and mathematics problem solving

2nd, 4th, and 6th grade students use of the digital learning environment in mathematics and science and pre-service teachers' ways of guiding the students

AI projects in the Innokas Network

Research on AI projects in basic education and early childhood education in the Innokas Network

Big Brother supports and supervises? Student experience of assessment in lower secondary school

The ethnographic project Isoveli (Big Brother) explores what assessment and feedback look like from the perspective of a secondary school student

Critical perspectives on career and career guidance (COCAG)

Critical perspectives on career and career guidance (COCAG) will gather scholars across Europe and beyond to explore how careers are changing in the contemporary world and consider what response is required from public policy and practice.

Dialogic argumentation for learning mathematics and physics - Darling

we examine students argumentation and teachers' ways of orchestrating argumentation in mathematics and physics

EarlyMath - Pathways to math difficulties: A longitudinal study from birth to school-age

The EarlyMath project (2021-2026) studies children’s early development of mathematical skills, motivation and emotions in interaction with learning environments. We want to understand better why the learning of basic mathematical skills is challenging for

Educational Robotics to Support Inclusive Education in Primary Schools

Robots4Inclusion - Erasmus+ KA2 Project

EduRESCUE

EduRESCUE project seeks solutions to strengthen the resilience of the Finnish education system and improve society's ability to cope with crises in the future.

Elontila

National Evaluation of Lifelong Guidance 2023–2024

Evaluative and reflexive practices in guidance counselling

How is assessment embodied in guidance counselling? How are they employed when making educational and occupational choices? The study provides knowledge about evaluative and reflexive practices in guidance counselling.

Flexibel mathematical thinking - JoMa

Mathematics eduation professional development programme

Interaction, Learning and Development (VUOKKO) follow-up study

VUOKKO-pitkittäistutkimuksessa seurataan lasten taitojen kehitystä 2-12 vuoden iässä sekä lasten oppimisympäristöjen (päiväkoti, koulu ja koti) merkitystä taitojen kehitykselle.