The work of the development group set up by the Finnish National Agency for Education to formulate suggestions for reforming religious, worldview and ethics education (in Finnish “katsomusaineet”) has been completed and final report was published on March 5th. The development group consisted of experts in education, educational organisations and religious, worldview and ethics subjects. […]

At the beginning of 2025, university researcher Tuukka Tomperi from the DELIBERATE Consortium (together with writer and teacher Severi Hämäri, who served as the course’s online moderator) created an online course “Using debate to build critical thinking and communication skills” for the European School Education Platform (EU Academy, European Commission). The course was directed for […]

Doctoral researcher Julia Jaakkola and professor Jan Löfström attended the Annual Symposium of Subject Didactics organized by The Finnish Association for Subject Didactic Research on Friday 14th of February, 2025. The topic of Julia’s presentation was about her doctoral research with the title “Deliberative democratic education in Finnish schools: Teachers’ conceptions and experiences”. Professor Jan […]

The Research Council of Finland funded research consortium “DELIBERATE: Education for deliberation: Practices of inquiry in dialogue-based democratic education” was launched Sep 1st 2024. DELIBERATE seeks a novel understanding of the practice of deliberation in democratic education with three sub-projects focused on philosophical, empirical and pedagogical questions of dialogue-based democratic education. The project team consists of six members from three universities: professor Katariina Holma (consortium leader) and postdoctoral researcher Hanna-Maija Huhtala at the University of Oulu, professor Jan Löfström and doctoral researcher Julia Jaakkola at the University of Turku, and professor emeritus Veli-Matti Värri and university researcher Tuukka Tomperi at the Tampere University. ...