Social Justice at the Focus of Education (SAFE)
Research group information
Unit and faculty
Contact information
Research group leader
- Professor
- University lecturer
- Tutkijatohtori / Postdoctoral research fellow (TUNI)Maria Petäjäniemi
Research group description
The group focuses on questions of social justice in education: the possibilities for agency, participation and safety for different students within school, and how the societal and educational structures and practices impact these possibilities.
The researchers in the group are: Kaisu Alamikkelä, Katja Castillo, Anna Itkonen, Iida Kauhanen, Veli-Mikko Kauppi, Virve Keränen, Iiris Kivioja, Maija Lanas, Maria Petäjäniemi, Eveliina Puutio, Veera Tervo, Anu Uusikylä, Anne-Mari Väisänen, Kirsi Yliniva and Mehmet Öztürk.
Arts & research - Youth Junctions: Oulu in Pictures
FreshEd Podcast: Kirsi Yliniva & Audrey Bryan - Education’s Neuro-Affective Turn
SAFE leader Maija Lanas becomes the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psycho…
Kaleva [in Finnish]: Teachers can have a long-lasting impact on their students
Maija Lanas [in Finnish]: Challenging situations in school, podcast
Eveliina Puutio [in Finnish]: On gender and sexuality in primary school
Award for the best scientific article of the year goes to SAFE's Väisänen & Lan…
Finnish Cultural Foundation awards funding for SAFE’s Kaisu Alamikkelä & Kirsi …
MLL funding for SAFE researcher Kirsi Yliniva
TOKPIK/SAFE course for teachers: "Safe growing environment in bullying preventi…
2024
Alamikkelä, K., Petäjäniemi, M., & Lanas, M. (2024). Saako mennä käytävälle tekemään? Nomadinen tutkimus avautuvan kouluympäristön arjesta. Kasvatus, 55(1), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.33348/kvt.143504
2023
Lanas, M., Petäjäniemi, M., Väisänen, A.-M., Alamikkelä, K., Kauhanen, I. & Yliniva K. (2023). Appearing as Impossible Subjects on the Scene of Education - Potato Smashing, Laying on Couch and Asking for a Key. In Katie Wright and Julie McLeod (eds.), Childhood, Youth and Activism: Global Perspectives on Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates. Sociology Studies of Children and Youth.
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017