Social Justice at the Focus of Education (SAFE)
SAFE focuses on the possibilities for agency, participation and safety for different students within school, and how the societal and educational structures and practices impact these possibilities.

Research group information
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Research group leader
- ProfessorMaija Lanas
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, Iiris Kivioja, Maija Lanas, Maria Petäjäniemi, Eveliina Puutio, Veera Tervo, Anu Uusikylä, Anne-Mari Väisänen, Kirsi Yliniva and Mehmet Öztürk.
Recent activities
TOKPIK/SAFE course for teachers: "Safe growing environment in bullying preventi…
FERA 2022: Unheard voices and unseen sceneries in education. A SAFE-led themati…
Maria Petäjäniemi speaks to YLE about expectations directed at asylum seekers
SAFE members are involved in organising the 2022 SUNS conference in Oulu.
Veli-Mikko Kauppi elected as board member of International Network of Philosoph…
New book: New perspectives to disturbance in school
Kirsi Yliniva (SAFE/AGORA) interviev
Katja Castillo's visiting lecture, Collegium for Life-World Phenomenological Re…
Publications
List of publications by SAFE researchers from the past five years
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017