Maarit Virolainen
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General description
Maarit Virolainen (PhD, Adult Education) is a senior researcher at the Finnish Institute of Educational Research. Her studies have focused on the combination of learning, education and work. For example, she has carried out follow-up research on experiments in youth education in the 1990s and participated in comparative research on the development of vocational education and training in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) in the 2010s. Her dissertation focused on learning from work experience in Universities of Applied Sciences, and learning from work experience has been her continuing research interest. The latest related project she is involved in concerns wisdom in practice (https://ktl.jyu.fi/en/research/esse/wisdom-in-practice). She has been involved in several national and international research projects since the beginning of her career.
Active JYU affiliations
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, Senior Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research (University of Jyväskylä), Project Researcher, Ended
Research interests
Maarit Virolainen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research. Her research has concerned organizing learning from work experience as a part of school-based learning (e.g. internships of the universities of applied sciences) and transitions from post-compulsory education to work and higher education. Recently she has studied for example the Nordic models for organizing vocational education, (in the project Nord-VET funded by NordForsk, see http:// http://nord-vet.dk/), and how various models of Nordic vocational education support transitions to higher education and to the world of work.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
adult education, vocational education and training (VET), universities of applied sciences, learning from work experience, internships,employment, world of work
Projects as Team Member
- Enhancing Research on the Integration of Formal Educational Programmes and Workplace Learning
- Tynjälä, Päivi
- European Commission
- Integrating Education and Work in Higher Education: Development of professional expertise, agancy and generic skills
- Tynjälä, Päivi
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- eAMK. The New Ecosystems of Learning.
- Heikkinen, Hannu
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- Toteemi: Combining higher education studies and work
- Tynjälä, Päivi
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- Wisdom in Practice: Developing Wisdom through Work-Integrated Higher Education
- Heikkinen, Hannu
- Research Council of Finland
- Manufacturing 4.0 - strategies for technological, economical, educational and social policy adoption/2
- Rautopuro, Juhani
- Research Council of Finland
Publications and other outputs
Recorded research activities
- Experts and learning to be wise (08/02/2024) Virolainen, Maarit, Heikkinen, Hannu L.T., Kallio, Eeva, Tynjälä, Päivi; Lectures and presentations
- Experts learn wisdom: Curiousity about different perspectives (05/06/2024) Virolainen, Maarit, Tynjälä, Päivi, Kallio, Eeva, Heikkinen, Hannu L.T.; Lectures and presentations
- Peer review for the Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training - about manuscript related to theme:"Collaborative Research Practice in VET " (2024) Virolainen, Maarit; Peer review or editorial work
- Peer review of article manuscript related to vocational teachers´ collaboration with the world of work (Ammattikasvatuksen aikakauskirja) (05/08/2024) Virolainen, Maarit; Peer review or editorial work