Project leader
Inkeri Rissanen
- University Lecturer
- monikulttuurisuuskasvatus
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- +358505099194
- inkeri.rissanen@tuni.fi
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Field of expertise
Intercultural education, education for sustainability, religions and worldviews in education, teacher education
Research topics
Teachers as agents of cultural transformation for sustainability, social psychological perspectives in intercultural education and teachers' intercultural professionalism, growth mindset pedagogy
Latest publications
Exploring the association between growth mindsets and climate action with young people
Rissanen, I., Kuusisto, E., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., Portus, R., Williams, S.-J., Laggan, S., Reilly, K. & Vainikainen, M.-P., 16 heinäk. 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) julkaisussa: Social Psychology of Education.Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Kohti yhdenvertaista koulua: Johdatus kulttuurienväliseen kasvatukseen ja muovautuvuuden pedagogiikkaan
Rissanen, I., 2024, Gaudeamus. 285 SivumääräTutkimustuotos: Kirja › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education
Reilly, K., Dillon, B., Fahy, F., Phelan, D., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., De Vito, L., Gnecco, I., Gopinath, D., Holmes, A., Laggan, S., Mansikka-aho, A., Palla, A., Portus, R., Rissanen, I., Sposito, S., Williams, S.-J. & McEwen, L., 2024, julkaisussa: GEOGRAPHY. 109, 1, s. 44-48 5 SivumääräTutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen
”Mä tiedän millainen vastuu mulla on Suomen yhteiskunnassa, tämän yhteiskunnan kehittämisessä”: Oman äidinkielen opettajien yhteiskunnalliset tavoitteet ja yhteiskunnallinen toiminta
Yli-Jokipii, M., Rissanen, I. & Kuusisto, E., 2024, julkaisussa: Kasvatus ja Aika. 18, 3, s. 24–42Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Civic Purpose among Higher Education Students – A Study of Four Dutch and Finnish Institutions
Kuusisto, E., de Groot, I., Schutte, I. & Rissanen, I., 27 heinäk. 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) julkaisussa: Journal of Empirical Theology. s. 1-18 18 SivumääräTutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Diversity beliefs are associated with orientations to teaching for diversity and social justice: A study among German and Finnish student teachers
Rissanen, I., Kuusisto, E., Timm, S. & Kaukko, M., maalisk. 2023, julkaisussa: TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION. 123, 103996.Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Finland and Sweden: Muslim Teachers as Cultural Brokers
Rissanen, I., 2023, To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture: Empirical Evidence from an International Perspective. Gutman, M., Jayusi, W., Beck, M. & Bekerman, Z. (toim.). Springer, s. 425-438Tutkimustuotos: Luku › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Finnish Teacher-students’ Mindsets and Intercultural Competences
Häärä, M., Rissanen, I. & Kuusisto, E., 2023, Critical and Creative Engagements with Diversity in Nordic Education. Tavares, V. & Skrefsrud, T.-A. (toim.). LEXINGTON BOOKS, s. 67-87Tutkimustuotos: Luku › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
How Do Teachers of Plurilingual Learner’s Mother Tongue (PLMT) Implement Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy?
Yli-Jokipii, M., Rissanen, I. & Kuusisto, E., 2023, Critical and Creative Engagements with Diversity in Nordic Education. Tavares, V. & Skefsrud, T.-A. (toim.). LEXINGTON BOOKS, s. 131-150Tutkimustuotos: Luku › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Identifying core beliefs of an intercultural educator: How polyculturalism and group malleability beliefs shape teachers’ pedagogical thinking and practice
Rissanen, I., Kuusisto, E. & McMullen, J., 2023, julkaisussa: Social Psychology of Education. 26, s. 1201-1225Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli › Tieteellinen › vertaisarvioitu
Researchers
Raili Keränen-Pantsu
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- raili.keranen-pantsu@tuni.fi
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Field of expertise
Narrative theory, narrative and transformative learning, teacher training, worldview education, planetary good life
Research topics
Narrative theory, narrative and transformative learning, teacher education, the role of teachers as agents of cultural sustainability change, learning related to cultures, values and beliefs
Research unit
Faculty of Education and Culture
Selected publications
Keränen-Pantsu, R. (2023). Stories that shape our world: Cultural narratives in the Finnish worldview education (Doctoral dissertation, Itä-Suomen yliopisto).
Keränen-Pantsu, R., & Heikkinen, H. (2019). Pedagogical purposes of narratives in worldview education: Teachers’ conceptions. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 18(5), 58-72.
Keränen-Pantsu, R., Huttunen, R., & Heikkinen, H. L. (2023). Kohti reflektiivistä katsomuskasvatusta. Kasvatus ja aika, 17(1).
Heikkinen, H. L., & Keränen-Pantsu, R. (2024). Making Sense of Narrativity. In Narratives in Educational Research: Methodological Perspectives (pp. 179-200). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Ikonen, E., Keränen-Pantsu, R., & Welz, C. (2024). Imagining sustainable worlds: the potential of mythical stories in environmental education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, qhae021.
Keränen-Pantsu, R., & Rissanen, I. (2018). What kind of tensions are involved in the pedagogical use of religious narratives? Perspectives from Finnish Evangelic Lutheran and Islamic religious education. Journal of Beliefs & Values, 39(2), 157-168.
Kavonius, M., Ikonen, E., Keränen-Pantsu, R., Lamminmäki-Vartia, S., Poulter, S., & Putkonen, N. (2025). Maailmakeskeinen kasvatus katsomusten kohtaamisen tukena. In Erimielisten tila: Vaikeiden aiheiden käsittely opetuksessa. Gaudeamus.
Elina Vilenius
- Researcher
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- +358504130631
- elina.vilenius@tuni.fi
Essi Aarnio-Linnanvuori
- University Lecturer
- ympäristökasvatus ja kestävä kehitys
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- +358503461567
- essi.aarnio-linnanvuori@tuni.fi
Elina Kuusisto
- University Lecturer
- University Lecturer (diversity and inclusive education)
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Tampere University
- +358503182483
- elina.kuusisto@tuni.fi
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About me
Dr. Elina Kuusisto works as a Senior Research Fellow at Tampere Institute for Advanced Study. She is also an University Lecturer in the domain of diversity and inclusive education at the Tampere University, and she holds a Title of Docent at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include teacher ethics and school pedagogy. More particularly, through her studies she aims to enhance 1) civic purpose and purposeful teaching among students and teachers; 2) ethical sensitivity and moral education in schools; 3) talent development and growth mindset pedagogy to increase meaningful learning experiences of every student.
Selected publications
PURPOSE AND PURPSEFUL EDUCATION
Kuusisto, E., Gholami, K., & Tirri, K. (2016). Finnish and Iranian teachers’ views on their competence to teach purpose. Journal of Education for Teaching, 42 (5), 541-555. doi: 10.1080/02607476.2016.1226553
Kuusisto, E., de Groot, I., de Ruyter, D., Schutte, I., Rissanen, I., & Suransky, C. (2023). Life purposes: Comparing higher education students in four institutions in the Netherlands and Finland. Journal of Moral Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2022.2159347
Kuusisto, E., & Schutte, I. (2022). Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2022.2107617
Kuusisto, E., & Rissanen, I. (2023). Kohti päämäärätietoista yhteiskunnallista opettajuutta? Opettajaopiskelijoiden tulevalle työlleen asettamat päämäärät [Towards a purposeful, societal teaching profession? Student teachers’ work-related purposes]. Kasvatus, 54(4).
Kuusisto, E., & Tirri, K. (2021). The challenge of educating purposeful teachers in Finland. Education Sciences, 11(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11010029
TEACHER ETHICS
Kuusisto, E., Ubani, M., Nokelainen, P. & Toom, A. (Eds.) (2021). Good teachers for tomorrow’s schools – Purpose, values and talents in education. Brill Sense.
Tirri, K., & Kuusisto, E. (2022). Teachers’ professional ethics: Theoretical frameworks and empirical research from Finland. Brill.
Tirri, K., & Kuusisto, E. (2019). Opettajan ammattietiikkaa oppimassa [Learning teachers’ professional ethics]. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
Gholami, K., Kuusisto, E., & Tirri, K. (2015). Is ethical sensitivity in teaching culturally bound? Comparing Finnish and Iranian teachers’ ethical sensitivity. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 45 (6), 886-907. doi: 10.1080/03057925.2014.984588
GROWTH MINDSET
Kuusisto, E., Laine, S., & Tirri, K. (2017). How do school children and adolescents perceive the nature of talent development? A case study from Finland. Education Research International, 2017. doi: 10.1155/2017/4162957
Rissanen, I., Kuusisto, E., Tuominen, M., & Tirri, K. (2019). In search of a growth mindset pedagogy: A case study of one teacher’s classroom practices in a Finnish elementary school. Teaching and Teacher Education, 77, 204-213. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2018.10.002
Rissanen, I., Laine, S., Puusepp, I., Kuusisto, E., & Tirri, K. (2021). Implementing and evaluating growth mindset pedagogy -A study of Finnish elementary school teachers. Frontiers in Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.753698
INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY
Kuusisto, E., Kuusisto, A., Rissanen, I., Holm, K., & Tirri, K. (2015). Finnish teachers’ and students’ intercultural sensitivity. Journal of Religious Education, 63 (29), 65–77. doi: 10.1007/s40839-016-0018-0
Rissanen, I., Kuusisto, E., & Kuusisto, A. (2016). Developing teachers’ intercultural sensitivity: Case study on a pilot course in Finnish teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 59, 446-456. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2016.07.018
GIFTEDNESS
Kuusisto, E., Laine, S., & Rissanen, I. (2021). Education of the gifted and talented in Finland. In E. Kuusisto, M. Ubani, P. Nokelainen, & A. Toom (Eds.), Good teachers for tomorrow’s schools – Purpose, values and talents in education (pp. 195–216). Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004465008_011
Tirri, K., & Kuusisto, E. (2013). How Finland serves gifted and talented pupils. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 36(1), 84– 96. doi: 10.1177/0162353212468066