University of Oulu

Graduate Student, Faculty of Education

Other Affiliations: University of Oulu, English Philology

Thesis Title: Difficult knowledge in academic teacher education: the ethics and politics of knowledge production [working title]

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My PhD study concerns (Finnish) academic teacher education, and examines therein politics of knowledge production: the discursive and cultural practices through which meaning and knowledge are constructed concerning (1) the student/teacher/practitioner/researcher/scholar and (2) the self/other/different/world. Bringing the educational and the cultural together, the study aims not only at challenging and critiquing some of the taken-for-granted assumptions in teacher education and educational sciences through which, for example, instrumentalist, ethnocentric and culturally hegemonic discourses are maintained, but also at finding alternative ways forward.

My research interests include postcolonial and poststructural theorisations of cosmopolitanism/global citizenship education and their pedagogical implications, and academia/higher education as a space for intellectual/personal/professional work towards de- and reconstructions of worldviews and understandings of the self and Other.

My work as a researcher and educator is informed by an understanding of educational questions as ethical and political questions that require from educators and educational researchers an openness and alertness towards the complexities, uncertainties and anxieties of human co-existence. As an emerging researcher, I have also been grappling with current debates concerning interdisciplinarity/bordercrossing within and beyond educational sciences, as well as the politics of publishing and research assessment.

I am a full-time PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, and am also a doctoral candidate in the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Education and Learning (FiDPEL/KASVA) within the subprogramme of Education, Knowledge and Culture.

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