Doctoral Education

The Research Group for Religious and Worldview Education and Philosophy Education has produced several studies and doctoral theses related to teaching and education, teaching profession, ethical education and the diversity of worldviews.

The postgraduate group is led by Professor in the Didactics of Religion Arto Kallioniemi and Senior University Lecturer Saila Poulter. The group gathers every other Thursday afternoon for a postgraduate seminar in the docent library of the Athena building at Siltavuorenpenger.

More information about doctoral studies is available from

Professor Arto Kallioniemi, .

Doctoral dissertations under preparation

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

Mariam Aljabaly: Nurturing Students’ Maker-Centered Learning and Maker Mindset in Formal Education - Teachers' Conceptualization and Facilitation

Veijo Fiskaali: The History of Teaching Finnish Folk Religion in Evangelic-Lutheran Textbooks

Bakir Hadj Mahammed: Exploring the Faith–Moral Action Gap: Muslim Youth Perspectives in Educational Contexts

Hanna Hallikas: Partially Integrated Worldview Education and Dialogue in a Diverse Finnish Society: A Classroom Study in Helsinki Capital Area

Isak Hannus: Islamic Religious Education in the Swedish-speaking schools of Finland

Samaneh Khalili: From human agency in education to civic agency of Muslim youth in Finland: Philosophical and empirical considerations

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

Karoliina Käpylehto: Helsinkiläisten lasten ja nuorten kuolemakäsitykset, kuolemaan liittämät tunteet ja osallisuus

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

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

Published doctoral dissertations

Doctoral Education

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

Read more about completed doctoral theses