Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
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Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Teacher Education, Professor
Research interests
My research foci include individual, family, and teacher factors contributing to childrens academic learning and motivation in preschool and early school years. In particular, I have been interested in developmental trajectories of young childrens reading and math skills and the effects of motivation, teacher-student relationships and teacher-parents partnership to childs learning. I am involved in interventions for supporting literacy skills development by computer games and iPad apps and also teacher interventions supporting teacher-child interaction, motivation and engagement in classrooms.
Fields of science
Projects as Principal investigator
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- Resilient schools and the education system
- Academy of Finland
- LUKILOKI 2: learning and teaching literacy skills
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Teacher assessment skills for supporting learning, participation and providing support
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- The effects of teacher-student interactions on child outcomes: Behavioral and
psychophysiological mechanisms- Academy of Finland
- LUKILOKI: training for professional development in literacy learning and teaching
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- SANORD2018 local organizing committee (LOC)
- Participants (conferences, training)
- To the World of Mathematics!
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- TESSI Understanding high-quality teacher-child interactions
- New York University Abu Dhabi
- The role of teacher stress and wellbeing on the quality of pedagogical interactions
- Finnish Work Environment Fund
- Two teachers in the class: Increasing the Opportunities to Differentiate Literacy instruction
- The Research Council of Norway
Projects as Team Member
- Teacher assessment skills for supporting learning, participation and providing support
- Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- How to tackle boys’ underachievement in comprehensive school?
- Rautopuro, Juhani
- Prime Minister's Office
- Is stress contagious in a classroom? Reciprocal relations between teacher and student well-being
- Pakarinen, Eija
- Ella ja Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation
- Competitive funding to strengthen universities’ research profiles. Profiling actions at the JYU, round 1
- Hämäläinen, Keijo
- Academy of Finland
- Special funding for research on COVID-19 epidemic and the mitigation of its effects
- Sivula, Leena
- Academy of Finland
Publications
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