Hannele Niemi 18.11.2003 LEARN Conference LIFE AS LEARNING, LEARN National Research Programme of The Academy of Finland Scientific Director Hannele Niemi

Hannele Niemi 18.11.2003 LEARN Conference

LIFE AS LEARNING, LEARNNational Research Programme of

The Academy of Finland

Scientific Director Hannele NiemiCo-ordinator Raija Latva-Karjanmaa

Life as Learning, LEARN


Life as Learning, LEARN

LIFE AS LEARNING, LEARN

A National Research Programme, funded by the

Academy of Finland, 2002-2006, EUR 5.1 Million


The Academy of Finland has financed ca. ten research programmes on the research of culture and society.

-Economic Crisis of the 1990s: Reasons, Events and Consequences, LAMA 1998-2001- Effectiveness of the Education 1994-1998- Information Research, TIETO (1996-2001)- Science and Science Policy Research Programme 1997-1999 - Russia and Eastern Europe Research Programme 1995-2000- On both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia /Svenskt i Finland - finskt i Sverige (2000-2003)

Research Programmes


Research Programmes

- Life as Learning, LEARN, 2002-2006- Media Culture Research Programme (1999-2002)- Marginalisation, Inequality and Ethnic Relations in Finland, SYREENI (2000-2003)- Finnish Companies and the Challenges of Globalization, LIIKE (2001-2004)

The first research programme financed by the Academy of Finland was in biosciences and environment 1990.


Research programmes- many projects linked in each other on

the same problem field of the research- co-ordination

Targeted calls- funds are allocated to some special field

of the research - no co-ordination

Research programme vs. targeted call


The aim of the research programme is• a new research culture and new research

partnerships• interdisciplinary and international

research projects around the problems of learning;

• lifelong and lifewide learning in order to avoid a new kind of exclusion:

• interdisciplinary research base for developing teaching and learning in different educational and working-life contexts; and

• to anticipate future learning needs from the point of view of society, culture and the individual.

Aims of LEARN


To redefine and to examine

• the concept of learning,• the social and cultural contexts of

learning, • the knowledge creation, • working environments, and• new teachership

Thematics of LEARN


’External’ goal…• to inform researchers, partners and

private persons interested in the programme

… and the ’internal’ goal of the programme

• to keep the various projects together in the programme

Informing about the Programme


Channels of informing• Web: www.aka.fi/learn/

- presentations of the projects and contact information

- history of the programme: Programme Memorandum, etc.

• LEARN Periodical (also .pdf)- news, coming events

- short features about projects and the co-operation in programme, etc. - Learn Periodical will be the first page of the websites

• E-mail lists• Intranet for the project leaders


Informing about the results

For larger public- stories in newspapers and magazines- information in education programmes of YLE (Finnish broadcasting company), tv/radio


University of Helsinki, Dept. of Education P.O.Box 39 (Bulevardi 18)FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

• Scientific Director of the programme: Professor Hannele Niemi

• Coordinator of the programme: MA Raija Latva-Karjanmaa

• Programme Assistant:MA Johanna Ketola

www.aka.fi/learn/

Coordination of LEARN


www.aka.fi/learn/

– Johanna Ketola, [email protected]

– Raija Latva-Karjanmaa, [email protected]

phone: +358-(0)9-191 28305

Information


• 17 projects, • of which 3 consortia

alltogether 23 projects

Projects in LEARN


Ecology of Collaboration (ECOL): Collaboration as Motivated and Co-ordinated Activity in Learning at Higher Education and Work-Place Contexts

Prof. Päivi Häkkinen, University of Jyväskylä

Prof. Sanna Järvelä, University of Oulu


EMERGING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: the Institutionalisation of Learning at Work (EcoP)

Prof. Kari Lilja,

Helsinki School of Economics


Facilitating Social Creativity through Collaborative designing

Prof. Minna Uotila, University of Lapland

Prof. Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, University of Joensuu


From Teaching Society to Learning Society. Generations and their possibilities of learning and coping in postmodern network and risk society.

Prof. Erkki Olkinuora, University of Turku


HELMI: Holistic Development of e-Learning and Business Models

Prof. Riitta Smeds,

Helsinki University of Technology


The L2 factor - Learning-to-learn at School: a Key to Life-Long Learning

Prof. Jarkko Hautamäki,

University of Helsinki


Learning Intercultural Competency in the Workplace

Senior Research Fellow Pirkko Pitkänen, University of Joensuu


Mathematics Teacher Learning in the Information Society (MATIS)

Academy Fellow Kristiina Kumpulainen, University of Oulu


Merging fields of high and low technologies as strategic learning environments: The case of the evolving field of functional food

Prof. Osmo Kivinen, University of Turku


The MOMENTS Project – Models and Methods for Future Knowledge Construction: Interdisciplinary Implementations with Mobile Technologies

• Prof. Jari Multisilta, Pori School of Technology and Economics

• Prof. Raine Koskimaa, University of Turku• Prof. Heli Ruokamo, University of Lapland• Prof. Seppo Tella, University of Helsinki

http://www.aka.fi/users/444/3831.cfm


Motivation, self-regulation and learning (MRL)

Prof. Marja Vauras, University of Turku

Prof. Jari-Erik Nurmi, University of Jyväskylä


Neurocognition of Language Learning and Re-Learning

Prof. Matti Laine,

Åbo Akademi University


New forms of expansive learning at work: the landscape of co-configuration

Prof. Yrjö Engeström,

University of Helsinki


Problem-based learning as a strategy for developing knowledge and competence in the context of education and work

Prof. Anna Raija Nummenmaa, University of Tampere


Societal Choices in promoting Life Wide Learning

Prof. Asko Suikkanen,

University of Lapland


Strategies for Cooperation and Learning in Public and Private Sector Networks

Senior researcher Tuula Heiskanen, University of Tampere


Teachership - Lifelong Learning (TeLL): Supporting Teachership in a Changing Work Environment

Prof. Jouni Välijärvi,

University of Jyväskylä

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Hannele Niemi 18.11.2003 LEARN Conference LIFE AS LEARNING, LEARN National Research Programme of The Academy of Finland Scientific Director Hannele Niemi