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
Follow-up groups
Projects as Principal investigator
- 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
- Understanding high-quality teacher-child
- New York University Abu Dhabi
- CARE Curriculum Quality Analysis and Imp
- European Commission
- Luokkahuoneen vuorovaikutusprosessien
- Research Council of Finland
Projects as Team Member
- EDUCA Flagship Education for the Future
- Kunttu, Henrik
- Research Council of Finland
- VUORO – Arviointivuorovaikutuksen yhteisöllinen koulutus
- Ketonen, Laura
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Copy/Kopio-Right to Belong: Tackling loneliness and ostracism during childhood and youth
- Kiuru, Noona
- Research Council of Finland
- 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
- Research Council of Finland
- Special funding for research on COVID-19 epidemic and the mitigation of its effects
- Sivula, Leena
- Research Council of Finland