DELIBERATE consortium launched

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. …