Merja Koivula
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General description
I have been awarded PhD degree in education 2010 from University of Jyväskylä. I received title of docent from Faculty of Education and Psychology, Jyväskylä 2022. The area of my docentship is early childhood education, particularly social-emotional learning. Currently, I work as a is a senior lecturer in early childhood education at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Education, Senior Lecturer
Research interests
My research is founded on the pedagogy of early childhood education and the development of young children, especially to themes relating to children's social-emotional skills. Currently my research is focused on the supporting of children's social-emotional competence and the pedagogical use of digital technologies in the context of early childhood education and care. These both themes are essential to the personnel in the day care centres as well as to researchers in the field of early childhood education
Fields of science
Projects as Team Member
- Language pedagogy developmental project: An innovative language pedagogy map and compass
- Moate, Josephine
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- Joint leap in language learning and identities in early childhood education
- Rutanen, Niina
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- Kohti parempaa sosioemotionaalisten taitojen
tukemista varhaiskasvatuksessa- Närhi, Vesa
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Sosiaalisten taitojen tukeminen päiväkodin toimintakulttuuria kehittämällä
- Närhi, Vesa
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Osaamisen yhteisloikka - pedagogista ammattitaitoa lastentarhanopettajien koulutuksen ja työelämän uudistuvalla yhteistyöllä
- Laakso, Marja-Leena
- Ministry of Education and Culture
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