Education, Diversity, Globalisation and Ethics (EDGE)

Andreas Rogler, Doctoral Researcher

Vihtori Kylänpää, Phd

Antti Rajala, PhD (Education), Post-doctoral Researcher

Audrey Paradis, PhD (Education), University Lecturer

Boby Mafi, MA (Education), Doctoral Researcher

Elina Lehtomäki, Professor of Global Education, Docent, PhD.

Fadilla Apristawijaya, Doctoral Researcher

Joffy Conolly, MA (Education), Doctoral Researcher

Johanna Lampinen, MA (Education), Doctoral Researcher

Katri Jokikokko, Docent, PhD, University Lecturer

Khalid Idris, Doctoral Researcher

Lijuan Wang, Post-doctoral Researcher

Lucia Shote, Doctoral Researcher

Magda Karjalainen, PhD, part-time university teacher/researcher

Marie Arrey, Doctoral Researcher

Marika Matengu, PhD (Education), University Teacher

Yared Demssie, PhD, Post-doctoral Researcher

Pedagogy of Concrete Utopias: Fostering youth agency and climate activism in formal education, 2020-2023

University students’ agency: global responsibility and social sustainability in internationalizing Finnish higher education (Eudaimonia spearhead project) 2022-2025. Read more about EUDAIMONIA Institute from here.

Nordic Network for Teacher Educators and Students (SPICA) ongoing. Learn more about SPICA project from here.

Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL), 2021-2024. Learn more about GINTL project from here.

Global Learning for Sense of Belonging (GloBe)/ ERASMUS+ project., 2021-2023. Learn more about GloBe project from here.

Finnish University Partnerships for International Development (UNIPID)

UniPID is a network of Finnish universities that supports interdisciplinary studies and research, as well as societal impact and partnerships of universities related to global sustainable development.Here you can read more what UNIPID is all about.

Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL)

GINTL is a network in which Finnish higher education institutions, together with partners from India, China and Africa, co-create research-based solutions to global educational challenges and collaborate in research and education. Here you can read more what GINTL is all about.

Global Education Research in Finland (GERIF)

The purpose of the GERIF-network is to bring together researchers working with global education in Finland. We focus on encouraging academic debate and cooperation, bridging gaps between research and practice as well as presenting research in an accessible way. Here you can read more what GERIF is all about.

Academic network for global education and learning (ANGEL-network)

The first network which creates ties among Global Education researchers worldwide. It also aims to form a pool of experts which can become a resource for policymakers in search of strong research grounding for policy development, and to establish a network among early stage researchers, Doctoral students and Post-Doctoral researchers, who are currently engaged in research in fields related to Global Education.Read more information about ANGEL network from here.

The ARCTIC five

The ARCTIC five is a partnership framework of Luleå University of Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Umeå University , the University of Lapland and the University of Oulu. Together the five universities form an alliance to advance and share knowledge, education and innovations for the development of our shared region and a sustainable Arctic. Read more about ARCTIC five from here.

Treading gently between the wor(l)ds autoethnographically exploring "strange dialogues" within the modern university (Magda Karjalainen)

Market exclusions and false inclusions: mapping obstacles for more ethical approaches in the internationalization of higher education. (Jani Haapakoski, 2020)

Towards just pre-primary education in rural Namibia. (Marika Matengu, 2020)

Towards a relational conceptualization of teacher autonomy: narrative research on the autonomy of perceptions of upper-secondary school teachers in different contexts. (Audrey Paradis, 2019)

Global perspectives in teacher education : a comparative study of the perceptions of Finnish and Japanese student teachers (Kiyoko Uematsu-Ervasti, 2019)

Professor Tania Ramalho joined our team in as a visiting professor with the ANTS research programme for a period of six months.

Dr. Yared Nigussie Demssie joined our team as a post-doctoral researcher for a period of four years with Eudaimonia research project University students for global responsibility and social sustainability.

Tania Ramalho, a Brasicana (Brazilian-American), completed her bachelor’s degree in the Social Sciences at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a master’s in Planning of Educational Systems/Education Administration at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. With the support of OAS, the Organization of American States, she obtained a Ph.D. in Education at the Ohio State University, focusing on the interconnectedness between individual, organizational, and national/international development. She has worked in Women’s Studies as well as a Foundations of Education professor at public and private universities in the United States. She recently retired from the State University of New York at Oswego School of Education, Curriculum & Instruction Department, where she developed and taught the course, Critical Literacy and Pedagogy for twenty years. Ramalho has written about Paulo Freire’s life and educational thought and brings together first-wave feminist, Freirean, and decolonial concepts to address issues of oppression and social/environmental justice and sustainability related to intersections of socioeconomic condition/class, gender/sex/sexuality, “race”/ethnicity, and ability/appearance. Tania has been researching and writing about these themes in Reading the World: Notes from the Not-So-Fine Lines. She is co-editor and contributor to the collections: Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy: Engaging Students in Glocal Issues Through the Arts (with Beyerbach and Davis, second edition, 2017) and Enacting Critical Pedagogy Online (with Mikulec, 2022). She is chiefly interested in conscientization (conscientização) for critical global learning and citizenship in teacher education. She enjoys folk dancing, the outdoors, reading, and writing political poems.

Yared received his PhD from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. He has academic experience as a Full-Time Lecturer at Addis Ababa University, a Guest Lecturer at Wageningen University, and an Affiliate Faculty member at Idaho State University in the United States of America. Yared’s experiences include conducting and supervising research, teaching, training, program coordination, curriculum preparation, and conference organizing by collaborating with (inter)national organizations. Some of the organizations he collaborated with are Addis Ababa University, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency - SIDA, Korea International Cooperation Agency- KOICA, Kilimanjaro International, Globelics, National Curriculum Harmonization Committee, National Examination Agency, and Bahir Dar University.

Research interests

• Sustainability competence

• Indigenous knowledge

• Education for sustainable development

• Teaching/learning for sustainability competence development

For more about Yared, please visit the following links.

‪Yared Nigussie Demssie - ‪Google Scholar

Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yared-Demssie

Yared (Nigussie) Demssie | LinkedIn

The group began its work already in the 1990s with both theoretical and practical interests to develop teacher education programmes focusing on intercultural education and ethics.

Listen to the interview of Emerita Professor of Education, PhD, Rauni Räsänen where she tells more about the history ofr EDGE from here.