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Doctoral education and academic work
The project is focused on doctoral study programmes, supervision of research work, and review of dissertations.
Further information:
Helena Aittola, email helena.s.aittola@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 805 4243
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The roles of the first and second language to achieve bilingualsim in Finnish elementary schools
(The language skills of school children with an immigrant background)
The project focuses on sixth-graders with an immigrant background and their linguistic development. While the main focus is on the development of formal skills in the Finnish language, attention is also paid to language use more generally. The project reports discuss, among other things, language tests as an indicator of language proficiency, the effect of the mother tongue or first language on language proficiency, and the use of language in building and reinforcing one’s identity.
The project is lead by Johanna Lasonen.
Further information:
Mia Halonen, email: mia.halonen@kotus.fi, tel. +358 (0)45 1369444.
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Change in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Societies (CINHEKS)
This international comparative research project will analyse how higher education institutions (HEIs) are networked within distinct knowledge societies within - and across - Europe, the USA and Japan. The study will illuminate the nature of linkages between academics, HEIs and crucial actors within the dynamics of knowledge production in these regions. The objectives of CINHEKS are based on the juxtaposition of historically distinct societies, global policy debates and conceptually defined empirical data, chosen to reveal their key similarities or differences.
Further information:
David Hoffman, email david.hoffman@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 805 4247
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Bilingualism in immigrant children’s education
The aim of the project is to analyse the achievement of bilingualism with Finnish as the second language from the perspective of increasingly intercultural education.
Funding: the Academy of Finland
Further information:
Johanna Lasonen, email: johanna.lasonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 527 9407
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The intercultural competence of experts working on multicultural issues
The project aims at (a) comparing the policies of work-based immigration in selected European countries, (b) designing a training course for the experts of immigration work, and (c) analysing their intercultural competencies.
Funding: the European Commission
Further information:
Johanna Lasonen, email: johanna.lasonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 527 9407
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Recognition of immigrants’ competence and their employment opportunities
The project aims to explore to what extent immigrants’ competence is recognised and how it affects their employment, career development and access to education and training. Another goal of the project is to develop methodology with relation to recognition and intervention.
Funding: Academy of Finland
Further information:
Johanna Lasonen, email: johanna.lasonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 527 9407
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Comparison of secondary education qualifications in EU-27 countries
The project compares the goals and indicators of secondary education among European countries.
Funding: the European Commission
Further information:
Johanna Lasonen, email: johanna.lasonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 527 9407
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Intercultural Competences Training for Trainers and Advisors in the Field of Professional Orientation (INT.COMP)
The INT.COMP project aims at enhancing the reintegration of unemployed immigrants into the labour market through improving trainers’ and advisors’ intercultural competence. Within the INT.COMP project an additional qualification for intercultural competence is being developed to enrich continuous training possibilities and enhance consultancy services in the field of active labour market measures, in particular in professional orientation for unemployed immigrants.
Funding: European Commission
Further information:
Johanna Lasonen, email: johanna.lasonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 527 9407
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Opening up Pathways to Competence and Employment for immigrants (OPCE)
The direct or indirect discrimination prevent immigrants’ access to education and jobs. Immigrants’ foreign-acquired education and work experience tend to be discounted compared to those of nationally and locally trained. The purpose of the three related but individual projects is to study to what extent immigrants’ prior learning and experience is recognised to contribute access to jobs and career prospects, and to develop related methodologies of recognition and intervention in education research. The target groups of the research are the 1st generation immigrants (less and highly educated adults) and the 2nd generation young people whose parents are/were immigrants. Funding by Academy of Finland 2009 – 2012.
Funding: Academy of Finland
Further information:
Johanna Lasonen, email: johanna.lasonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 527 9407
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Paths to the University of the Third Age
My doctoral thesis research examines the activities of Finnish Universities of the Third Age from the perspective of their students. In terms of methodology, I am interested in autobiographical aspects, e.g. how the meaning of learning is being constructed in relation to prior learning experiences. The data consists of life stories written by third age students under the heading ”Studying at the University of the Third Age and my previous learning paths” (N=134).
Further information:
Reetta Muhonen, email: reetta.muhonen@jyu.fi, tel: +358 50 535 8985
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Research and development project for university quality assurance systems
The project, which is funded by the Ministry of Education, explored the introduction of quality assurance systems in Finnish universities. The project was completed for Finland in 2007, but a comparative set of data has been collected in Greece and its analysis is still in progress.
Further information:
Jani Ursin, email: jani.ursin@jyu.fi, tel. +358 50 303 0811
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Universities’ structural development, academic communities and change (RAKE project)
The project, which is funded by the Ministry of Education, investigates how structural development has changed the staff’s, both teaching and administrative, as well as students’ views and possibilities to act in the reform process of higher education institutions. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Research Unit of Science, Technology and Innovation at the University of Tampere (TaSTI) and Higher Education Group (HEG).
Further information:
Jani Ursin, email: jani.ursin@jyu.fi, tel. +358 50 303 0811
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My current research work has to do with outlining the basic character and idea of polytechnics with respect to universities and the world of work, and also with the changes in universities’ tasks. More broadly, it concerns the role and nature of skills and knowledge in social development. Another development target encompasses regional development of secondary education as well as cooperation between upper secondary schools and vocational institutes. I am also involved in a project funded by the Academy of Finland (Resources, locality and life course), which explores the transformations of social, economic, and cultural capital in the course of life as a local phenomenon.
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