Doctoral Education

At the moment, our doctoral researchers are engaged in many interesting subjects

Mariam Aljabaly: Promoting Teacher’s Maker Mindset

Silja Lamminmäki-Vartia: The Development of Teacher’s Pedagogical Thinking and Professionalism in Relation to Worldview Education in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Care

Tuija Kasa: Critical Analysis of the Realisation of Human Rights Education: Educational, Moral and Legal Perspectives.

Samaneh Khalili: Human Agency in Educational Action and Social Context: A Comparative Case Study of Finnish and Iranian Formal Religious Education

Selja Koponen: Entanglements of Agency – Towards Transformative School and Education

Eelis Mikkola: Attaining Transversal Competences Through Pedagogical Philosophy in a Finnish Upper Secondary School

Niina Putkonen: Navigating diversity in Islamic religious education. A study of home-school collaboration between teachers of Islamic religion and Muslim parents in Finnish public schools

Heidi Rautionmaa: Opettajien näkemys omasta osaamisestaan edistää katsomusdialogisuutta osittain yhdistetyssä katsomusopetuksessa. Haastattelututkimus.

Mihaela Viorica Rusitoru: Values, religious and moral education in Orthodox Christianity

Tuomas Salonen: The Ethical Subject in Finnish Worldview Education – Practices of Ethical Self-Formation in Primary School Ethics

Read more about completed doctoral theses

Saija Benjamin (2017): "People who don't live what we live, don't understand: youths' experiences of hypermobility"

Essi Ikonen (2020): Life, death and love: phenomenological investigations into the messy nature of authenticity

Marjaana Kavonius (2021): Young People’s Perceptions of the Significance of Worldview Education in the Changing Finnish Society

Arniika Kuusisto (2011): Growing up in affiliation with a religious community: a case study of Seventh-day Adventist youth in Finland

Ilari Kärki (2015): Uusliberalismia vai ei?: suomalaista perusopetusta koskevien koulutuspoliittisten kasvatus- ja opetustavoitteiden arvot vuosina 1994–2012 Shalom Schwartzin arvoteorian valossa

Marja Laine (2019): Kohti kulttuurisesti kestävää kasvatusta: Kulttuurisesti kestävän kasvatuksen määrittyminen ja siihen liittyvät tulevaisuuden tarpeet

Juha Luodeslampi (2021): Haastetun oppiaineen puolustajat: uskonnonopettajana peruskoulun syntyvaiheessa

Mia Matilainen (2011): Ihmisoikeuskasvatus lukiossa: outoa ja itsestään selvää

Reko Niemelä (2015): Inclusionary practices in a Finnish pre-primary school context

Pia Niemi (nyk. Koirikivi) (2016): Creating a sense of membership in basic education : the contributions of schoolwide events

Salla Poropudas (2021): Kirkon työntekijän identiteettiä rakentamassa?: narratiivinen tutkimus diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulun opiskelijoiden hengellisistä elämäntarinoista ja ammatillisen identiteetin lähtökohdista

Päivi Poukka (2011): Moral education in the Japanese primary school curricular revision at the turn and the twenty-first century: aiming at a rich and beautiful kokoro

Päivi Siivonen (2010): From a "student" to a lifelong "consumer" of education? constructions of educability in adult students' narrative life histories

Marja Spoof (2007): ”Pintaa syvemmälle”: Eettinen pohdinta opettajan voimavarana luokanopettajan ja erityisopettajan silmin

Martin Ubani (2007): Young, gifted and spiritual: The case of Finnish sixth-grade pupils

Vesa Åhs (2020): Worldviews and Integrative Education: A Case Study of Partially Integrative Religious Education and Secular Ethics Education in a Finnish Lower Secondary School Context