Tamás Szabó
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General description
Currently I work as Senior Lecturer of Multilingualism and the Internationalization of Teacher Education in the Department of Teacher Education as well as Adjunct Professor of Linguistic Landscape Studies in the Centre for Applied Language Studies. In my courses, I discuss multilingual pedagogies, translanguaging, linguistic landscapes and creativity. I also teach qualitative research methods and supervise MA and PhD theses.
Since 2019, my work has been related to the European Universities Initiative and especially FORTHEM Alliance in many ways. Being Chair of the Mission Board and serving as Scientific Manager, I had been coordinating the transnational, multidisciplinary multi-stakeholder expert network of FORTHEM Labs between 2019 and 2022. Currently I serve as Co-chair of the FORTHEM Labs and Co-creation Mission Board. Further, since 2019, I have been Alliance level Contact Person for FORTHEM Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab. I have been active in cross-alliance collaboration as well and co-chair the Forum of European Universities (FOREU) Subgroup Multilingualism since 2020.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Teacher Education, Senior Lecturer
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Teacher Education (University of Jyväskylä), Yliopistonopettaja, dosentti, Ended
- Department of Teacher Education (University of Jyväskylä), Senior Researcher, Ended
- Department of Education (University of Jyväskylä), Part-Time Teacher, Ended
- Department of Teacher Education (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended
- Department of Teacher Education (University of Jyväskylä), University Teacher, Ended
- Department of Teacher Education (University of Jyväskylä), University Teacher, Ended
Research interests
I study and develop multilingual pedagogies and the internationalization of teacher education, with a special regard to language ideologies and the agency of learners and teachers. I apply a linguistic landscape approach to learning environments and develop ethnographic research methods. Learners, teachers, policy makers and education developers make use of my results.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Personal keywords
multilingualism, teacher education, internationalization, linguistic landscapes, schoolscapes
Projects as Principal investigator
- Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities: Speaking Romani at School
- European Commission
- EVERYDAY CREATIVITY – boosting the internal creative resources of European schools with Finnish models for education for creativity
- European Commission
Projects as Team Member
- Establishing a Laboratory of Cultural Heritage in Central Romania
- Lähdesmäki, Tuuli
- European Commission
- Medborgarforskning om samlokaliserade skolor i Finland, i Italien och i sverigefinska skolor i Sverige
- Laihonen, Petteri
- Svenska Kulturfonden
- Leading multicultural learning community II: education for educational professionals leading multicultural learning communities
- Risku, Mikael
- Finnish National Agency for Education
Publications and other outputs
Author of research datasets
Recorded research activities
- AFinLA yearbook (14/08/2024) Szabó, Tamás; Peer review or editorial work
- Language Variation in Acquisition (book) published by John Benjamins) (12/08/2024) Szabó, Tamás; Peer review or editorial work
- Participatory Schoolscape Research (27/08/2024) Szabó, Tamás; Lectures and presentations
- Puhe ja Kieli (07/08/2024) Szabó, Tamás; Peer review or editorial work