KASVA/FinEd Newsletter 2014/11-12

The board of KASVA Network gathered in the FERA Conference on Education 2014 (Kasvatustieteen päivät) in Oulu on November 20th, 2014.  The board discussed the reviving of the network and decided about a new name for the network: The Finnish Multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Network on Educational Sciences (FinEd) / Kasvatusalan valtakunnallinen monitieteinen tohtorikoulutusverkosto (FinEd).

 

The operational financing of the Academy of Finland to the KASVA/FinEd Network is coming to an end by the end of the year 2015. After that, the costs of the annual seminar and the salary costs of a part time (25 %) coordinator should be financed by a doctoral programme / faculty-specific membership fee of each member university. The promising membership negotiations will be continued in the next year and our aim is to finalise and sign the contract of new FinEd Network during the spring 2015. After this, also the members' e-mail list will be updated.

In 2015, the FinEd Network opens a call for travel grants in the same way as in the year 2014.  The call will be opened at the end of January and it is primarily directed to the full time (financed by graduate school, doctoral programme or research projects) doctoral candidates of the member units of the FinEd Network. If there aren’t enough reasonable applications from full time candidates, also the applications of part time doctoral candidates are taken into account. The travel grants are awarded to conferences and other study visits abroad during the year 2015.

The FinEd network will continue arranging the annual seminars also under the new name. In 2015, the responsible unit of the planning of the seminar is the KAVE subprogramme of the old KASVA network organization (Subprogramme on Comparative Research on Educational Policy, Economy and Assessment, CREPEA/KAVE). The annual seminar will be organized in Herrankukkaro of Rymättylä on 9-10.6.2015. The keynote lecturer will be researcher Xavier Pons (University of East Paris Créteil and “Observatoire Sociologique du Changement”, Sciences Po, Paris). The theme of his lecture will be Comparative Education and Policy Studies on Transformations of the Governance of Education Systems in Europe. The themes and contents of the parallel sessions are formed according to the research areas of the participating doctoral candidates.

During the end of the year, there have been at least three dissertations of the members of the network:

 

MA Saara-Leena Kaunisto defended her dissertation on 7.11.2014 in the faculty of education, University of Oulu. The dissertation of education is entitled ”Täällä sai puhua sen, mitä kenties muualla ei". Opettajien vertaisryhmä kerronnallisena ympäristönä” ("Here I could say what I probably wouldn't have said elsewhere". Teachers' peer group as a narrative environment). The opponent was professor Eero Ropo from the University of Tampere and custos professor Eila Estola from the University of Oulu. The dissertation is published as e-thesis.

 

MA Annarita Koli defended her dissertation on 29.11.2014 in the faculty of behavioural sciences in the University of Helsinki. The dissertation of adult education is entitled "Työn mieltä etsimässä. Työhyvinvoinnin edistäminen ammatinopettajien työssä" (Searching for the personal sense of work. Promoting work-related well-being in vocational teachers’ work). The opponent was professor Matti Vartiainen from the Aalto University and custos professor Yrjö Engeström. The dissertation is published in the series of the department of behavioural sciences and as e-thesis.  

 

MA Piia Näykki defended her dissertation on 19.12.2014 in the faculty of education, University of Oulu. The dissertation of education is entitled ”Affective and effective collaborative learning – process-oriented design studies in a teacher education context” (Tunteet ja toiminta yhteisöllisessä oppimisessa – prosessiorientoitunut design-tutkimus opettajankoulutuksen kontekstissa). The opponent was professor Michael Baker (CNRS-LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, Pariisi, Ranska) and custos professor Sanna Järvelä from the university of Oulu. The dissertation is published as e-thesis.

 

Warm congratulations to Saara-Leena, Annarita and Piia!

 

 All the members of KASVA/FinEd, please remember to inform the coordinator of your upcoming dissertation.

 

WORK2015 - New Meanings of Work. The second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work, 19-21 August 2015 in Turku, Finland. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 January, 2015.

 

Warwick Lifelong Learning Annual Conference: Dimensions of Lifelong Learning: Past, Present and Future. 29 June - 1 July 2015, University of Warwick. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 January, 2015

 

ECER 2015: Education and Transition - Contributions from Educational Research. European Conference on Educational Research and Emerging Researchers‘ Conference 7 - 11 Sept 2015 in Budapest. Submission Time: 1 Dec 2014 - 1 Feb 2015

 

 

 

The next FinEd Newsletter will be published in January, 2015.  If you have something that you wish to be communicated to the FinEd members, please inform the coordinator.