School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education - News

The University of Eastern Finland has a new partner university in Albania, i.e., Logos University College (ULogos), which is also UEF’s first Albanian partner university.

Finnish craft science is a unique field of research even on a global scale, and Finland has played a pioneering role in the development of the discipline.

The dissertation investigates how children engage in intercultural encountering with each other, and how this kind of encountering can be promoted in primary school.

The Creating Spaces for Diversity of Worldviews in Early Childhood Education project aims to enhance teachers’ competence on worldview education and to develop early childhood pedagogy that recognises diversity.

The facilities of the Tulliportti Teacher Training School have been renewed in connection with the Future Classroom Lab project. Its key concept has been the development of learning environments, the well-being and recovery of students, and support for study motivation.

Three pupils of Länsikatu School were diagnosed with a coronavirus infection during last week and over the weekend. One person has also been diagnosed with coronavirus infection at Rantakylä School on 23 August.

A group of Thai teachers has just completed the Media Skills in Digital Learning Environments course, on which they improved their skills related to being a teacher in this digital era.

The doctoral dissertation of Natalia Koricheva describes how preschool children aged from 4 to 7 learn English as a foreign language in the kindergartens.

Several projects are underway at the University of Eastern Finland that seek to help embrace a gentler and more accepting approach to food and eating in food education.