Minna Körkkö

PhD, Associate Professor (docent), Education, especially teacher education research
Postdoctoral Researcher
Teacher education

Teacher education, school and society
Faculty of Education and Psychology

I work as postdoctoral researcher in the NAVI-project and collaborator in the RELA-project. My research interests include teacher work, teacher professional development teacher competence and student teachers’ reflection. Especially, I am interested in using a video and other technologies as tools in teachers’ and students’ learning and competence development.

Research interests

teacher education
professional development
reflection
supervision
teacher work
pre-service teacher well-being

Researcher information

Research groups

Narratives in educational research collective (NarratED)

Researcher profiles

Professional and community activities

Selected publications

Körkkö, M., Kyrönlampi, T., Korhonen, E.-M., Ollinen, H., Isoniemi, S., & Prokkola, L. (2024). Miten mennyt meissä kajahteleekaan: Varhaiskasvatuksen opettajien kokemuksia hakeutumisestaan alalle ja siirtymisestään opettajiksi toiselle ja korkea-asteelle [How the past clangours in us: ECE teachers' experiences of applying to the field and transition to teach in secondary and higher education]. Ammattikasvatuksen aikakauskirja, 26(4), 54–70.
Korte, S.-M., Paksuniemi, M., Keskitalo, P., Selkälä, A., Körkkö, Anderson, K., & Sarivaara, E. (2024). Finnish Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge about Indigenous Sámi People. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2024.2415018
Lutovac, S., Keränen, V., Körkkö, M., Uitto, M., & Clandinin, D. J. (2024). A shifting professional knowledge landscape: Teachers’ experiences of being unsettled within parent relationships. Teaching and Teacher Education, 152, 104790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104790
Keränen, V., Uitto, M., Martin, A., Kettunen, A., Körkkö, M., & Lutovac, S. (2024). Creative writings, creative analysis – Exploring narrative ways to analyse teachers’ writings. In E.-K. Hyry-Beihammer, O. Ylitapio-Mäntylä & M. Uitto (Eds.), Narratives in educational research: Methodological perspectives (pp. 123–135). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68350-3_8
Lutovac, S., & Körkkö, M. (2024). “A teacher's work is many things, but one thing it is not is easy”: Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of teachers’ work today. European Journal of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2388630
Körkkö, M., Lutovac, S., & Korte, S.-M. (2024). The sense of inadequacy and uncertainty arising from teacher work: Perspectives of pre- and in-service teachers. International Journal of Educational research, 127, 102410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102410
Korte, S.-M., & Körkkö, M. (2024). Conceptualizing a model for technology enhanced embodied pedagogy In T. Schilhab & C. Groth (Eds.), Embodied learning and teaching using the 4E cognition approach: Exploring perspectives in teaching practices (pp. 115–125). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604-17
Korte, S.-M., & Körkkö, M. (2024). Embodied learning with and through different writing modalities. In T. Schilhab & C. Groth (Eds.), Embodied learning and teaching using the 4E cognition approach: Exploring perspectives in teaching practices (pp. 54–62). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604-9
Körkkö, M., & Lutovac, S. (2024). Relational perplexities of today’s teachers: social-emotional competence perspective. Teaching Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2023.2298194
Ketonen, L., Körkkö, M., & Pöysä, S. (2023). Authentic assessment as a support for student teachers’ reflection. European Journal of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2023.2229004
Körkkö, M., & Ketonen, L. (2023). Itsenäinen osaamisalue vai kaikkien taitojen äiti: Reflektiivisyyden merkitys opettajan osaamiselle [Independent competence area or mother of all competences: The role of reflection for teacher competence]. Kasvatus & Aika, 17(1), 184–202. https://doi.org/10.33350/ka.116947 https://journal.fi/kasvatusjaaika/article/view/116947/77141
Korte, S.-M., Körkkö, M., Kyrö-Ämmälä, O., Hast, M. Mommo, S., Paksuniemi, M., Maxwell, G., Beaton, M., & Keskitalo, P. (2023). A transnational comparative study of teachers’ experiences of remote teaching and learning during COVID-19 pandemic. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 25(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.52214/cice.v25i1.10221
Korte, S.-M., Körkkö, M., Maxwell, G., Beaton, M., Hast, M., Keskitalo, P., Kyrö-Ämmälä, O., & Mommo, S. (2023). Professional educators in the Circumpolar North: A model for the digital competence of future teachers. Arctic Yearbook 2023 Special Issue: Arctic Pandemics. https://arcticyearbook.com.
Korte, S.-M., Körkkö, M., Paksuniemi, M., Hast, M., Mommo, S., Selkälä, A., & Keskitalo, P. (2022). Experiences of remote teaching, technological pedagogical competencies and workload of teachers in northern Finland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Education in the North, 29(2), 68–93. https://doi.org/10.26203/p6gp-9729 5_EITN_2022_02_06_Korte.pdf (abdn.ac.uk)
Korte, S.-M., Körkkö, M., Paksuniemi, M., Hast, M., Mommo, S., Selkälä, A., & Keskitalo, P. (2022). Pohjois-Suomen opettajien kokemuksia etäopetuksesta, teknologis-pedagogisesta osaamisesta sekä työn kuormittavuudesta COVID-19 pandemian aikana. Education in the North, 29(2), 94–119. https://doi.org/10.26203/ncs2-0v80 6_EITN_2022_02_06_Korte_Finnish.pdf (abdn.ac.uk)
Körkkö, M., Kotilainen, M.-R., Toljamo, S., & Turunen, T. (2022). Developing teacher in-service education through a professional development plan: Modelling the process. European Journal of Teacher Education, 45(3), 320–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2020.1827393 (for external review)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02619768.2020.1827393
Paksuniemi, M., Körkkö, M., Korte, S.-M., Joona, T., & Keskitalo, P. (2022). Touching the untouchables: Pre-service teachers' views about the rights of the child based on focus group discussions. In N. Chitadze (Ed.), Global dimensions of democracy and human rights: Problems and perspectives (pp. 185–201). IGI Global.
Körkkö, M. (2021). Towards meaningful reflection and a holistic approach: Creating a reflection framework in teacher education. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 65(2), 258–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2019.1676306
Körkkö, M., Kyrö-Ämmälä, O., & Turunen, T. (2021). VEO as part of reflective practice in the primary teacher education programme in Finland. In P. Seedhouse, (Ed.), Video Enhanced Observation for language teaching: Reflection and professional development (pp. 83–96). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350085060.ch-6
Paksuniemi, M., Keskitalo, P., Frangou, S.-M., & Körkkö, M. (2021). Pre-service teachers' experiences of dialogical and reflective supervision through digital technology. International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 5(3), 463–485. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijtes.243. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1311039.pdf
Körkkö, M., Kyrö-Ämmälä, O., & Lakkala, S. (2020). Educating reflective practitioners through video-elicited reflection. In N. E. Fenton & W. Ross (Eds.), Critical reflection on research in teaching and learning (pp. 34–51). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436657_003
Frangou, S.-M., & Körkkö, M. (2020). Model of technology enhanced affective learning. In T-C. Huang, T-T. Wu, J. Barroso, F. E. Sandnes, P. Martins & Y-M. Huang (Eds.), Innovative technologies and learning: Third international conference, ICITL 2020 Porto, Portugal, November 23–25, 2020 Proceedings (pp. 582–590). Springer.
Körkkö, M. (2019). Immigrant Students in the Finnish Educational System. In M. Paksuniemi & P. Keskitalo (Eds.), Introduction to the Finnish educational system (pp. 81–95). Brill.
Körkkö, M., Morales Rios, S., & Kyrö-Ämmälä, O. (2019). Using a video as a tool for reflective practice. Educational Research, 61(1), 22–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2018.1562954
Körkkö, M., Kyrö-Ämmälä, O., & Turunen, T. (2016). Professional development through reflection in teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 55, 198–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2016.01.014

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minna.korkko@oulu.fi

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+358504489721

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Pentti Kaiteran katu 1

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P.O.Box 8000
FI-90014 University of Oulu

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Minna Körkkö

Research interests

Researcher information

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Selected publications

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Unpacking and Redefining Changing Relationships in Teachers’ Work

Pre-service Teachers Navigate Teachers’ Changing Work and Its Relationality (NAVI)

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