Mikko Aro
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General description
I am a professor of Special Education, and the co-director of the Center of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention research (InterLearn; Academy of Finland, 2022-2029). Within the multidisciplinary InterLearn consortium I lead the research team of Educational Sciences. My main research interests relate to typical and atypical development of learning skills (esp. literacy and math), as well as educational interventions of learning problems.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Education, Professor
Research interests
Tällä hetkellä toimin yhtenä vastuullisena tutkijana ja varajohtajana Oppimisen dynamiikan ja interventiotutkimuksen huippuyksikössä (Suomen Akatemia, 2022-2028), jossa on konsortio-osapuolina Jyväskylän yliopiston Kasvatustieteiden ja Psykologian laitosten lisäksi Turun yliopiston Psykologian ja logopedian laitos. Huippuyksikön tutkimushankkeissa selvitetään oppimisen ja psykososiaalisen hyvinvoinnin välisiä kehityksellisiä yhteyksiä sekä tutkitaan millaiset tekijät vaikuttavat yksilölliseen vaihteluun opetuksellisesta tuesta hyötymisessä. Hankkeessa kertyvä tieto autaa kehittämään yksilöllisesti kohdennetumpia ja kokonaisvaltaisempia oppimisen ja koulunkäynnin tuen keinoja, joilla vaikutetaan sekä oppijoiden hyvinvointiin että oppimiseen.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
special education; educational psychology; learning disabilities; dyslexia; mathematical disabilities; support for learning; intervention research; learning motivation; learning related emotions; self-beliefs
Projects as Principal investigator
- Centre of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research
- Research Council of Finland
- Centre of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research
- Research Council of Finland
- Reading and arithmetic dysfluency in children
- Research Council of Finland
Projects as Team Member
- Centre of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research
- Leppänen, Paavo
- Research Council of Finland
- Centre of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research
- Leppänen, Paavo
- Research Council of Finland
- Teacher assessment skills for supporting learning, participation and providing support
- Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- LUKILOKI: training for professional development in literacy learning and teaching
- Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- LUKILOKI 2: learning and teaching literacy skills
- Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Neo-PRISM-C: NEurodevelopmental Optimal-Predictors, Risk factors, and Intervention from a Systems approach to Maladjustment in Children
- Leppänen, Paavo
- European Commission