Department of Applied Sciences of Education

Welcome to the Department of Applied Sciences of Education

The Department of Applied Sciences of Education is one of the five Departments of the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences and it is one of the largest departments of the University of Helsinki.

The Department is divided into four sections:

• Class teacher education
• Subject teacher education
• Kindergarten teacher and early childhood education
• Special education
  

In addition, the Department has thirteen research centres, which are organised according to different areas of expertise.

The Department strives for interconnectedness between high-level research and teaching. The aim is to educate professional teachers for early childhood education, basic education, and upper secondary education, who possess adequate skills, knowledge and readiness to carry out, analyse, and develop teaching, day care and school education.

The activities of the Department build on a versatile scientific, practical and societal expertise as well as on wide-ranging national and international networking and co-operation. The Department of Applied Sciences of Education is co-operating closely with other departments of the University of Helsinki, the Teacher Training Schools, and a network of field schools. Additionally, the Department has a lot of international contacts especially to many European universities. Moreover, the Department takes also actively part in continuing education as well as open university education.