Record number of participants at upcoming conference
We will have a record number of participants at the upcoming JustEd conference in Helsinki 22-23 May. In total, 175 researchers from all over the globe have signed up for the conference. We are delighted to welcome all the participating researchers from New Zealand, Brazil, China, Albania, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, USA, France, Belgium, Congo, […]
Curious knowing more about the JustEd researchers?
We have more than 140 researchers in 8 different countries at 14 partner universities around the globe. The focus for the research is on social justice in education, and the topics ranges from marketization and social inclusion to marginalization and diversity, innovative teaching, learning cultures and student engagement. Soon we will be presenting our researchers from Iceland, Norway, Sweden […]
Check out the programme and plenaries for the upcoming JustEd conference
We just released the preliminary programme for JustEd’s upcoming international conference ‘Promoting justice through education’ in Helsinki 22-23 May! The full programme, the schedule of presentations and the plenaries can be found here: JustEd conference programme. The conference will examine todays’ educational policies and practices in a critical light. The themes for the conference plenaries are ‘Differentiation […]
Call for papers: Nuancing Young Masculinities
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and The Swedish School of Social Science invite you to participate in debates at a collaborative symposium. The symposium aims to nuance understandings of young masculinities by bringing together a variety of new thinking to illuminate contradictions and complementarities in contemporary scholarship on boys and young men. Papers in this […]
Call for papers! Home matters: Meanings, metaphors and practices
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, invites you to participate in debates at an international conference on new imaginaries and globalised inclusions and exclusions in practices of making home. The conference Home Matters: Meanings, metaphors and practices will be held 31 May – 1 June 2018 in Helsinki. The conference will bring together […]
Sign up for the Nordic Conference on Teacher Education
Have you already signed up for the Nordic Conference on Teacher Education in Vaasa, Finland? Today is the deadline for early bird registration! In a panel discussion at the conference, you will have the chance to discover the latest research findings from JustEd researchers from Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway. They will address policies and […]
Special issue of Education Inquiry: Critical issues and perspectives on justice through education
The Nordic countries are topping many global indexes in terms of happiness, competitiveness and equality, and are often considered as the most democratic and fair countries in the world. In this special issue of the Education Inquiry journal, JustEd researchers are raising questions about whether the Nordic countries constitute a supermodel with regard to education, […]
Happy International Women’s Day!
Today is a good day to speak up for women’s rights and gender equality – also in education. Do you wish to know more about research on gender in education? Check out the Nordgente website, a great resource and a unique archive of research focusing on gender and education in a Nordic context. On the website, […]
Making disabled youth visible
There is a silence around disability in youth studies, especially in Finland. JustEd researchers Reetta Mietola and Aarno Kauppila wanted to make a change: “We decided to suggest a special issue focusing on disability from a youth perspective. In order to eradicate the discrimination that this group faces, the first thing is to make disability […]
Seminar: Working with and for Social Justice
What does promotion of social justice mean and require – from research methodologies, dialogue, teaching, and the researcher as an academic actor? The two-day seminar ‘Working with and for Social Justice’ 15-16.3 invites scholars to discuss promotion of social justice in and through their work, providing a space to approach this from a variety of […]
