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    Country Report: Finland
    with Eero Salmenkivi, Mika Perälä, and Ilmari Hirvonen
    Journal of Didactics of Philosophy 9 1-7. 2025.
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    Open-ended and unresolved: Criticality as a practice and a process
    with Sonja Helkala and Jan Varpanen
    Educational Philosophy and Theory. forthcoming.
    How to understand educational critique and how to best promote it in educational contexts is subject to continued debate. In a seminal article, Burbules and Berk describe how the disputes between proponents of ‘critical thinking’, ‘critical pedagogy’, and various later notions of ‘critique’ often focus on highlighting the foundational inadequacies of other approaches. This may suggest that different critical traditions are mutually exclusive to the point that productive interaction is precluded.…Read more
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    Reinventing Paulo Freire’s pedagogy in Finnish non-formal education: The case of Life Skills for All model
    with Juha Suoranta, Nina Hjelt, and Anna Grant
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (13): 2228-2242. 2022.
    The article contributes to the academic discussion on Paulo Freire’s pedagogical thinking as a basis for reinventing contemporary non-formal education. In Finland, Freire’s transformational/liberatory theory of adult learning was applied as a framework for developing an adult educational model called Life Skills for All. The pilot project’s case studies were carried out with different groups of people during the model’s development phase. We describe these cases and discuss what can be learned f…Read more
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    Trayectorias de la Práctica Pedagógica de Filosofía En Finlandia
    Childhood and Philosophy 21 01-32. 2025.
    El primer propósito de este artículo es proporcionar una visión general de la historia del campo finlandés de la filosofía con niñxs, describiendo cómo estas ideas han cruzado fronteras hacia Finlandia a través de diversas rutas y en diferentes momentos. Además, ofrezco una visión sinóptica de la situación actual en Finlandia. En segundo lugar, examinaré la división dentro del sistema escolar finlandés entre la enseñanza en el aula en la escuela primaria y la enseñanza de asignaturas en la escue…Read more