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Sustainability Science Days 2023: Attendee experiences
Africa, Global
From 21 May to 2 June 2023, the annual Sustainability Science Days (SSD) were hosted at the University of Helsinki. Two guests, Salma Khatibu and Vedasto Hamza, received a Ministry of Education & Culture (MEC) Grant, supported by GINTL coordination efforts and minor cost-funding, to attend the 2023 edition of the SSD. In this blog post, they share their experiences as participants of the conference.
Haaga-Helia’s collaboration network on teaching and learning with Southern African universities
Africa
During the ongoing year, Haaga-Helia has formed a network of seven partner HEIs in Southern Africa. In this phase of the collaboration network, the HEIs are interested in projects with focus areas in relation to the partnership between higher education (HE) and the world of work, entrepreneurship education in HE, innovations in HE pedagogy, sustainability in HE, as well as quality of education and leadership in HE.
Project insights: Education and research on the use of medicinal plants in Benin
Africa
With a population that holds ten times more traditional healers than doctors, the practice of traditional phytomedicine is one deeply rooted in Beninese culture – despite local scientific researchers’ views on the quality of a share of that practice. In an attempt to strengthen the bond between traditional healers and scientific researchers in Benin and to improve both their practices and Beninese medicine more widely, a knowledge-sharing collaboration was construed between the University of Helsinki and a group of Beninese researchers. For this project spotlight, GINTL research assistant Luna Erica met with Leena Hanski, Victorien Dougnon, and Jean-Robert Klotoe to discuss their team’s research.
Project insights: Teacher education for equality and equity in China
China
In June 2023, Saara Loukola visited China with the help of a GINTL travel grant from the University of Helsinki in order to visit two universities, a high school, and a daycare center for her research as well as to participate in two workshops on teacher training and teaching more generally. In this blog post, Loukola summarises her experiences and takeaways from the trip.
Imagining global education and learning for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world
Global
The Academic Network of Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) Conference in Paris, France, which took place from 19 to 20 June 2023, is a venue for creating ties among researchers and scholars in the field of global education. Dr. Marika Matengu, Ms. Richardine Poulton-Busler, and Ms. Frieda Shingenge participated in the conference - at which Ms. Shingenge and Hanna Posti-Ahokas (GINTL) also had the opportunity to present a paper - with the help of GINTL funding. This article is a summary of their experiences and lessons learned from the conference.
Project insights: How best to support Kenyan higher education institutions
Africa
This article is a summary of Franklin Nyairo’s educational research in his native Kenya, which he completed with the help of a GINTL travel grant. It discusses the Kenyan education system and how research thereon could help development of education both in Kenya and at HEIs all over the world. The article focuses on Nyairo’s research and its context, but it also hopes to show the value of going returning to one’s native country to do research.
GINTL in the 2023 Sustainability Science Days
Global
The Sustainability Science Days (SSD) is an annual conference for transdiscipilinary research. In 2023, the event was hosted at the University of Helsinki with as its theme ‘Pathways of Hope – Knowledge, Actions, Solutions’. This article is an overview of the part the Global Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL) played in this year’s conference, written by Jenny Shuanghong Niu, postdoctoral researcher at GINTL.
Project insights: Imaginative drawing as a way of revealing student well-being
In the midst of a global learning crisis, the future of education is a hot topic in research. But where does a concept as abstract as the future of education begin, and how can we begin to approach it in order to realise a future as bright as possible? Hanna Lampi is a university lecturer at the University of Helsinki who has spent nearly twenty years doing just that: approaching the future of education from a novel perspective, namely, that of the future of the students themselves. Supported by a GINTL travel grant, Hanna recently visited Tanzania to build on her research. She shared all the highlights of that trip and her studies at large in an interview with Luna Erica, a research assistant at GINTL, for this article.
Internationationality in transition: What’s in it for GINTL?
Africa, China, India, Global
GINTL participated in the annual Spring Forum for Higher Education Institutions to share and learn about current discussions around internationalisation. The coordination teams from University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskylä wish to share a few key takeaways for the future work of GINTL.
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