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View article: Democratic education online
Democratic education online Open
Education plays a key role in democracy. Nonetheless, while Finnish teachers are positive about educating for democracy, they feel that they lack the right resources to achieve this and tend to exhibit a passive approach to participation. …
View article: Teachers’ (mis)recognition of pupils’ cultural capital and their navigation of schools’ middle-class normativity
Teachers’ (mis)recognition of pupils’ cultural capital and their navigation of schools’ middle-class normativity Open
View article: Challenges and prospects for antiracism pedagogy in Finnish upper secondary schools: an examination of teacher guides
Challenges and prospects for antiracism pedagogy in Finnish upper secondary schools: an examination of teacher guides Open
View article: Reframing the Human–Nature Relationship in Worldview Education: The Case of Finnish Lutheran and Orthodox Textbooks
Reframing the Human–Nature Relationship in Worldview Education: The Case of Finnish Lutheran and Orthodox Textbooks Open
To support new ways of thinking and acting that could create sustainable lifestyles and societies, it is necessary to consider how education attends to the human relationship with the non-human world. In this study, we investigated how the…
View article: Correction: Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education: Exploring a Pluralist Perspective in Light of Finnish Social Studies Textbooks
Correction: Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education: Exploring a Pluralist Perspective in Light of Finnish Social Studies Textbooks Open
View article: Constructing Agency in the Climate Crisis: Rhetoric of Addressing the Crisis in Social Studies Textbooks
Constructing Agency in the Climate Crisis: Rhetoric of Addressing the Crisis in Social Studies Textbooks Open
The climate crisis is an urgent issue that requires immediate and significant international action and is tightly connected to several other global problems such as biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and countercurrents to democracy. …
View article: Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education: Exploring a Pluralist Perspective in Light of Finnish Social Studies Textbooks
Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education: Exploring a Pluralist Perspective in Light of Finnish Social Studies Textbooks Open
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in Därför demokrati. Om kuns…
View article: Education and Coloniality in the Nordics
Education and Coloniality in the Nordics Open
Current research maintains that the Nordic countries, despite their contextual differences, are prone to amnesia and sanctioned ignorance in relation to their colonial histories, legacies, and structures (Eriksen, 2021; Fjellheim, 2023; Hö…
View article: From influencing school food to handling hate speech: Methods, areas, and limitations of active citizenship in Finnish social studies textbooks
From influencing school food to handling hate speech: Methods, areas, and limitations of active citizenship in Finnish social studies textbooks Open
Historically, education for active citizenship has not been a high priority in Finnish schools. In this discursive study of Finnish social studies textbooks for grades 4–6, we investigate how students are encouraged to practice active citi…
View article: Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool Open
This study investigates how the staff in one preschool group in Finland deals with questions of social class. Despite a lack of reference to class in policy documents, social class emerges in three ways in the discussions among the Early C…
View article: Racism in Finnish School Textbooks: Developments and Discussions
Racism in Finnish School Textbooks: Developments and Discussions Open
While the Finnish education system has been celebrated for promoting equality, recent reports point to problems concerning racism within Finnish schools. Kristín Loftsdóttir suggests looking at racism from three angles: everyday racism, pr…
View article: Yhdessä oppimista ja arvopohdintaa opettajankoulutuksessa
Yhdessä oppimista ja arvopohdintaa opettajankoulutuksessa Open
This article describes a study about a phenomenon-based learning project that involved a group of first year student teachers and their lecturers. The project was carried out on the Suomenlinna World Heritage Site. We explore the learning …
View article: Intercultural education in transition: Nordic perspectives
Intercultural education in transition: Nordic perspectives Open
Over the last several decades intercultural education has played a key role in many educational policies and practices, both across the Nordic countries and internationally. In this article we examine current conceptual discourses on inter…
View article: Historieläroboken som barometer: Jörgen Gustafson, Historielärobokens föreställningar. Påbjuden identifikation och genreförändring i den obligatoriska skolan 1870–2000
Historieläroboken som barometer: Jörgen Gustafson, Historielärobokens föreställningar. Påbjuden identifikation och genreförändring i den obligatoriska skolan 1870–2000 Open
View article: Discrimination as a One-Day Performance Critically Reviewing an Anti-racism Day at School
Discrimination as a One-Day Performance Critically Reviewing an Anti-racism Day at School Open
View article: Jörgen Gustafson, Historielärobokens föreställningar. Påbjuden identifikation och genreförändring i den obligatoriska skolan 1870–2000
Jörgen Gustafson, Historielärobokens föreställningar. Påbjuden identifikation och genreförändring i den obligatoriska skolan 1870–2000 Open
View article: Westerners and others in Finnish school textbooks
Westerners and others in Finnish school textbooks Open
This study focuses on the worldview constructed in Finnish and Swedish history, social studies and geography textbooks in Finland. I have approached the textbooks from a postcolonial perspective. This means a focus on the descriptions of g…
View article: A postcolonial discourse analysis of Finnish school textbooks: learning about the world from a tourist perspective
A postcolonial discourse analysis of Finnish school textbooks: learning about the world from a tourist perspective Open
In this article, we ask how Finnish basic education school textbooks in social science portray tourism and countries with a big tourism sector. We have analyzed the textbook quotes from a postcolonial perspective, using discourse theory an…
View article: Globalization as Continuing Colonialism – Critical Global Citizenship Education in an Unequal World
Globalization as Continuing Colonialism – Critical Global Citizenship Education in an Unequal World Open
In an unequal world, education about global inequality can be seen as a controversial but necessary topic for social science to deal with. Even though the world no longer consists of colonies and colonial powers, many aspects of the global…
View article: Globalization as Continuing Colonialism – Critical Global Citizenship Education in an Unequal World
Globalization as Continuing Colonialism – Critical Global Citizenship Education in an Unequal World Open
In an unequal world, education about global inequality can be seen as a controversial but necessary topic for social science to deal with. Even though the world no longer consists of colonies and colonial powers, many aspects of the global…
View article: Democracy and Human Rights: A Critical Look at the Concept of Western Values in Finnish School Textbooks
Democracy and Human Rights: A Critical Look at the Concept of Western Values in Finnish School Textbooks Open
View article: Colonialist "discoveries" in Finnish school textbooks
Colonialist "discoveries" in Finnish school textbooks Open
The article focuses on the descriptions of colonial events in Finnish history textbooks for comprehensive school (basic education). This includes the descriptions of "voyages of discovery" and the treatment of the indigenous people in Amer…