Mirja Tarnanen
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General description
I work as a professor of language education at the Department of teacher education and serve as the vice dean responsible for education at the Faculty of education and psychology.
My key roles in societal interaction are:
- Chair of the Opinkirjo Development Center's board
- Chair of the National Certificate of Language Proficiency Committee, Finnish National Agency for Education
- Member of the Teacher Education Forum, Ministry of Education and Culture
- Assistant member of the Matriculation Examination Board, censor of Finnish language and literature.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Teacher Education, Professor
Research interests
My research areas include language issues in education, culturally and linguistically diverse school communities, professional development of teachers, development of teacher education, and the development of pedagogy that utilizes active learning approaches and multidisciplinarity/phenomenon-based learning.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Projects as Principal investigator
- Uutta luova asiantuntijuus - opettajien perus- ja täydennyskoulutusta siltaamassa
- Ministry of Education and Culture
Projects as Team Member
- Imagining possible futures: Multidisciplinary engagements with access, agency and participation
- Sulkunen, Sari
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students: Understanding Levers of Integration in Scotland, Finland and Sweden
- Hökkä, Päivi
- NordForsk
- LUKILOKI 2: learning and teaching literacy skills
- Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Competitive funding to strengthen universities’ research profiles. Profiling actions at the JYU, round 5
- Hämäläinen, Keijo
- Research Council of Finland