LECI Research Seminar on April 4: Marianna Vivitsou and Jaakko Hilppö present their research

You are warmly welcomed to our Learning, Culture and Interventions (LECI) expert group research seminar on Friday 4th of April 2025, at 10.15-11.45. The seminar will be held at Siltavuorenpenger 5A, room K108 (Minerva building) and is also accessible via Microsoft Teams.

If you wish to attend online, please email Kati Jääskö-Santala (kati.jaasko-santala@helsinki.fi) to request the Teams link for the event.

 

In this seminar, postdoctoral researcher Marianna Vivitsou and university lecturer Jaakko Hilppö present their research. Here are additional details about their presentations:

10.15-11.00 Postdoctoral researcher Marianna Vivitsou (Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki):

Qualitative interviewing in Higher education-industry international partnerships – The researcher’s perspective

The focus of this talk is on essential aspects of planning and doing fieldwork; what doctoral/ postdoctoral researchers need to take into consideration when planning qualitative interviewing; potential power issues and emergent imbalances and ways to deal with them.

11.00-11.45 University lecturer Jaakko Hilppö (Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki):

Troubled Sleep in ECEC: Exploring Tension and Contradictions in Two Finnish Kindergarten Groups’ Sleep Time Practices

This microethnographic study explores the contradictions underlying sleep practices in early childhood education and care settings from a cultural-historical activity theory perspective. Drawing on interactional analysis of childrens’ and adults’ sleep time conduct in two Finnish kindergarten groups and an analysis of their interviews on sleep time troubles, the study provides a more nuanced and layered picture of the conflicting demands placed on sleep time in ECEC settings than research currently does. Moreover, the study provides insights into how sleep time troubles are managed by the ECEC participants. By focusing on sleep time as an example of basic care activities prevalent in ECEC, the study also diversifies our current lines of research on ECEC, especially from a cultural historical perspective.