Seminars

Maker@STEAM research team has the following seminars.
Collective Creativity

Professors: Kalle Juuti and Kaiju Kangas. Seminar sessions are chaired by the supervisors of the doctoral researchers including , Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Kai Hakkarainen, Jari Lavonen, Antti Laherto, Tiina Korhonen, Kati Sormunen Ilona Södervik, Merkike Kesler...

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Collective Creativity is one of the Maker and STEAM education research seminars. The team situates to the research interest areas of learning science.

Themes: Research projects and dissertations that are connected to maker cultures, collaborative designing, research on teaching and learning in school science, and digital learning environments at schools. Many of the projects are conducted in the frame of Design-Based Research.

Seminars meet once a month in Tuesdays at 16–18 o’clock. We have English as lingua franca.

Home economics pedagogy

Doctoral seminars for doctoral students and their supervisors in Home Economics Pedagogy are arranged in cooperation with the University of Helsinki, the University of Göteborg, and the University of Eastern Finland, via Zoom. For more information on the forthcoming meetings (usually 4-5 times per autumn and spring term).

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Materials, artefacts, colour, craft and futures – MAC CAFÉ / MacCafe

Research is multi- and inter-disciplinary. It focuses broadly on craft, materials, artefacts, colour and craft especially in futures perspectives. Sustainability is in the core of the research. Language is Finnish or English what ever needed.

Contact. Professor Riikka Räisänen  

Network Analysis Methods in Research on Teaching and Learning

HelsinkiNode is seminar series. HelsinkiNode promotes and enhances the use of network analysis in research on teaching and learning bringing together professionals from different disciplines to build new collaborations and initiate research applying network analysis.

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Open seminar on pragmatism

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An open philosophical seminar for all participants interested in pragmatism. The seminar will feature presentations by pragmatism scholars from the University of Helsinki and other higher education institutions.

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