GINTL India & NCI Winter School 2022: Strengthening children’s and teachers’ social and emotional skills

TypeOpen for all

When

WhereOnline

Organiser GINTL India & Nordic Centre in India

TopicsIndo-Finnish Collaboration

GINTL India & Nordic Centre in India organise a week long (2 hours a day) Winter School on 28 November - 2 December that provides insights on children's and teachers' social and emotional skills. During the week Finnish and Indian experts share about their research and experiences to Finnish and Indian upcoming teachers and in-service teachers. Winter school is open for all master's level students, degree and non-degree, who are interested in social and emotional skills in the educational context. Winter school is organised completely online and participants can choose to join the programme each day or pick the most interesting sessions. 

28 November – 2 December, 2022
14:00-16:00 Finnish time (EET) | 17:30-19:30 Indian time (IST)

Participation

Participants can receive a certificate for participation (Indian and non-JYU participants) or 1 ECTS (JYU participants) by participating in all the sessions and returning a learning diary by 23 December, 2022. If you don’t need study credits or certificate for participation, you can just participate the programme without any extra work.

If you are not able to attend each session, you can also watch the recordings afterwards until the end of year 2022. Links to recordings will be shared with the registered participants.

JYU, EDUPSY participants

As a JYU, EDUPSY student you can get study credits (1 ECTS) by participating in all the sessions and returning a learning diary. This study credit will go under elective studies.

Non-JYU participants

Non-JYU participants or students outside of Finland can receive a certificate for participation by participating in all the sessions and returning a learning diary.

Programme

All times are in Finnish time, followed by Indian time in parentheses.

Monday, 28 November
Social & emotional learning in higher education

14:00-14:45 (17:30-18:15)

Social and emotional learning in higher education

Tommi Mäkinen, University teacher, Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä

15:00-16:00 (18:30-19:30)

Social and emotional learning in India

Dr. Chetna Duggal, Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology (SHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai

Tuesday, 29 November
Teachers as a source of support for children’s social & emotional skill development in educational settings

14:00-14:45 (17:30-18:15)

Children’s socio-emotional development

Shipra Suneja, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Azim Premji University

15:00-16:15 (18:30-19:45)

Teachers as a source of support for children’s social & emotional skill development in educational settings

Dr. Jenni Salminen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä

Dr. Sanni Pöysä, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä

Wednesday, 30 November
Children’s social & emotional development

14:00-14:50 (17:30-18:20)

Children’s social & emotional development

Dr. Merja Koivula, Senior Lecturer, Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä

15:00-16:00 (18:30-19:30)

Emotions inside school classrooms

Kinnari Pandya, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Prem

Thursday, 1 December
Bullying prevention & peer relations at schools

14:00-14:50 (17:30-18:20)

Bullying and peer relations

Dr. Miia Sainio, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä

15:00-16:00 (18:30-19:30)

Bullying in schools

Dr. Rajani Mohan Konantambigi, Professor, Mumbai Campus, Centre for Human Ecology, School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Friday, 2 December
Panel discussion: Strengthening children’s and teachers’ social and emotional skills

14:00-15:15 (17:30-18:45)

Panelists:

  • Dr. Miia Sainio, Senior lecturer, University of Jyväskylä
  • Dr. Jenni Salminen, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä
  • Dr. Jenni Salminen, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä
  • Dr. Rajashree Srinivasan, Professor, School of Education, Azim Premji University
  • Dr. Aneesh Kumar P, Assistant Professor, Department Of Psychology, School Of Social Sciences, Christ University, Bengaluru

Panel moderator:

  • Dr. Chetna Duggal, Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology (SHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai

Learning diary

Learning diary is a coherent text of roughly five (A4) pages of text. Detailed instructions for writing a learning diary are available here.

Inquiries

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