Promoting collaboration with Chinese and East-African partners

EquJust-group has close connections and long experience from research, teaching and supervision collaboration with colleagues and universities in China and East-Africa. In the context of current GINTL (global innovation networks in teaching and learning) initiatives of ministry of education and...

Pöhinää Pirkanmaalle

(Below in English) Koronarajoitusten takia muutos: Jatkona Pöhinää kylille - työpajalle Orivedellä 17.-18.8.2021, Pirkanmaan liitto järjestää työpajan aktiivien kanssa seminaarin Pöhinää Pirkanmaalle - sivistystyö paikallista kansalaistoimintaa ja demokratiaa rakentamassa? perjantaina 25.3.2022, klo 12-15. Lisätietoja ja ilmoittautumisohjeet tästä linkistä. Due to...

Insearch2021 conference

Insearch 2021 conference takes place in Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Cumilla 18.-19.12.2021. (see https://www.netinsearch.com/sub_menu_content.php?sub_menu_id=14). Due to covid-19 pandemic it is hybrid this year (having been cancelled in 2020). EquJust-research group is one of the organizers. Based on the Orivesi...

Responsibility of universities in promoting adult and vocational education for environmental sustainability: cross-cultural collaboration towards planetary solutions – workshop, 15.11. at 11.45-13.15, in the virtual JoLii conference 15.-17.11.2021

Organizing team: Anja Heikkinen, Professor emerita, Tampere University, anja.heikkinen@tuni.fi, Golaleh Makrooni, Doctoral researcher,  Tampere University,  golaleh.makrooni@tuni.fi, Xin Xing, Lecturer, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, China, xgxy1@126.com, Cheng Jiao, Lecturer, South China Normal University, cheng_jiao@m.scnu.edu.cn, Nasrin Jinia, Researcher, Tampere University,...

Bildung-gospel: a salvation to the wicked problems?

A renaissance or hype or gospel around Bildung has recently emerged in Europe, especially in the adult education - and more specifically popular adult education - field. A hybrid pre-seminar adjunct to the Finnish adult education research conference (10.-11.2.2022) is...

Pöhinää kylille-työpaja 17.-18.8.2021

Below in English Osana SVV-ohjelman KOSI-hanketta (http://www.vapausjavastuu.fi/kosi-hanke/) järjestettiin Oriveden Kampuksella (https://www.orivedenkampus.fi/tapahtumat/pohinaa-kylille-mita-on-kansalaistoiminnan-demokratian-ja-sivistyksen-paikallisuus/) 17.-18.8.2021 työpaja Pöhinää kylille - mitä on kansalaistoiminnan, demokratian ja sivistyksen paikallisuus? EquJust-ryhmästä mukana olivat Anja, Jenni, Golaleh, Nasrin, Asad ja Satu. Pienryhmät pohtivat ja ideoivat aiheita vapaan sivistystyön,...

Conference for history and philosophy of education 14.-15.6.2021

The annual summer days of the Finnish history and philosophy of education-research network is organized 14.-15.6.2021, in University of Jyväskylä. More information and instructions in Finnish and English: https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/hela/tutkimus/keskittymat/childhood-and-education/kasvatuksen-historian-ja-filosofian-kesapaivat-2021

Environmental care and social progress: impact of beliefs, values and gender- workshop

The November workshop continued questioning how religious, spiritual and ideological beliefs and values, also related to gender, shape interpretations of environmental care and social progress. It aimed at confronting perspectives from research and practice of vocational education (economy, work, technology),...

Foundations and international development of adult education and learning

Joint course between Tampere and Tallinn Universities, autumn 2020 (Anja Heikkinen & Larissa Jögi) The course continued the long-term collaboration between Tampere and Tallinn Universities, aiming at integrating research, studies and societal interaction in adult education. The implementation of the...