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.
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 VÀrri and university researcher Tuukka Tomperi at the Tampere University.
The project team is pleased to have a distinguished group of international collaborators supporting our work: Nicholas C. Burbules, Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the editor-in-chief of Educational Theory; Silvia Edling, Professor of Curriculum Theory at the University of GÀvle; Andrea R. English, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; Maughn Gregory, Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University (USA), and successor of Matthew Lipman as the director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC); Walter Kohan, Professor of Philosophy of Education and the Director of the Center of Studies in Philosophy and Childhood at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and co-editor of the journal Childhood & Philosophy; and Dina Mendonça, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Nova University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA) and coordinator of the research group on Philosophy and Argumentation in Society (PAIS).
The consortium team held one-day workshops at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki on Sep 6th and at the Tampere University on Oct 31st, for planning the implementation and tuning the sub-projects.
The consortium held a semi-public kick-off workshop at the University of Turku on Nov 20th, on the pre-seminar day of the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA) Conference of Education 2024, with participation of two European collaborators, Professor Andrea English and Professor Silvia Edling, and with invited guests from Finnish universities.
