Activities of the Deliberate Research Group during Spring 2025
Researchers from the DELIBERATE consortium have published texts and appeared in scientific and broader public forums on several occasions during the past months. Some of these activities have already been reported in previous blog posts, such as the most recent publication âDemokraattisen harkinnan valmiudet kasvatustieteen tutkimuskohteenaâ â a jointly written project introduction by the consortium […]
Presentation of the Deliberate Consortium in the journal Kasvatus & Aika
The latest issue (2/2025) of Kasvatus & Aika has just been published and includes an article introducing the Deliberate project, written by researchers from the consortium. The article (in Finnish) outlines the projectâs background and objectives, as well as the main plans for research and interaction. The article is openly accessible at:https://journal.fi/kasvatusjaaika/article/view/161709Full issue of Kasvatus […]
Finnish-Swedish Conference on Pedagogy and Didactics of PhilosophyÂ
Helsinki, Finland, 12th & 13th of June 2025Location: House of Science (Kirkkokatu/Kyrkogatan 6, Helsinki; Tieteiden talo) NOTE: Updated program is here. Programme Thursday 12th of June 10.00-10.30 Coffee and opening words. Tuukka Tomperi and Isabella Varricchio.Jaakko Lindfors (Finnish National Agency for Education): Welcome Address from EDUFI 10.30-12.00 Presentations and discussionsIsabella Varricchio (Stockholm University): The role […]
DELIBERATE met with DEMOED 4.4.2025 at Oulu University
The DELIBERATE consortium met with researchers from the DEMOED group at the University of Oulu in a joint workshop on April 4, 2025. The consortium was invited to Oulu and the arrangements were overseen by Katariina Holma, who is the leader of both our consortium and the DEMOED group, and Hanna-Maija Huhtala, who is a […]
Report of the development group on the reform of religious, worldview and ethics education published
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. […]
Using debate to build critical thinking and communication skills
At the beginning of 2025, university researcher Tuukka Tomperi from the DELIBERATE Consortium (together with writer and teacher Severi HĂ€mĂ€ri, who served as the courseâs 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 […]
DELIBERATE at the Symposium of Subject Didactics in Joensuu
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 âDeliberative democratic education in Finnish schools: Teachersâ conceptions and experiencesâ. Professor Jan […]
DELIBERATE consortium launched
The Research Council of Finland funded research consortium âDELIBERATE: Education for deliberation: Practices of inquiry in dialogue-based democratic educationâ 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.Â
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 VĂ€rri and university researcher Tuukka Tomperi at the Tampere University. …
