The KESTO network includes, in addition to the Finnish Institute for Educational research, the Universities of Eastern Finland and Tampere as well as Haaga-Helia and Arcada Universities of Applied Sciences. The coordinator of the network is Haaga-Helia, and the it is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
JYU’s contribution includes development of wisdom pedagogy to support multiperspective thinking, provided with skills to solve complex and multi-faceted problems in the world of work. Therefore, university education should reach beyond competence development which is often understood as mastery of skills and shift the focus to generating broad-based and multiperspective thinking.
The contribution of JYU to the KESTO project has been an action research project, actualized in collaboration with FIER and Department of Teacher Education, to develop university education that enables development of wisdom. In practical terms, the project aims at developing students' multifaceted and reflective thinking through Socratic dialogue.
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