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Student travel grants to the 2022 SDG4 Seminar at the University of Jyväskylä
Open call for institutional travel grants for GINTL-related activities
UH has a continuous call for travel grants to and from the three GINTL regions. Students, staff and their collaborators can submit applications related to GINTL activities requiring travel.
Knowledge of interculturality ‘otherwise’: Developing a research-based international partnership between universities in China, Finland, and Morocco
Knowledge of interculturality is often too ‘Euro- and western-centric’ in global scholarship and education, leaving little space for the Global South to speak in its own (negotiated) terms about the notion. Based on our former GINTL online exchange project between universities in China and Finland, this research-based international cooperation links up scholars and students from different parts of the world (China, Finland, and Morocco) to ‘expand the horizons of knowledge production’ about interculturality. A series of videos will be produced by world experts from the participating institutions about interculturality to help students unthink and rethink their knowledge of the topic in long-term virtual exchanges. This important project thus explores ways of rebalancing power imbalances between Global North and Global South voices in the production of knowledge about interculturality ‘otherwise’.
Teacher education for social justice in the post-pandemic era: Examples from China and Finland
Educational inequality has become a persistent and complex international issue nowadays. Discrepancies and gaps exist between economic, regional, gender, racial/ethnic, and language backgrounds regarding educational opportunities and outcomes. Teacher education with a stand on social justice and diversity prepares teachers and creates contexts to effect real change towards attaining a vision of a more just education and society. This project tries to explore how to prepare future teachers to contribute to reducing inequality in education. Three specific tasks are going to be addressed in this project: (1) conceptualising the broad problems of educational inequality and the role of teacher education in challenging these problems in the Finnish and Chinese contexts; (2) exploring the nature of “practice for equality,” especially focus on the training mode of the teacher education; (3) designing teacher education curricula and program structures that are equality-centered and characterising particular local histories and contexts.
A comparative study of Chinese and Finnish teacher educators’ quality requirements and professional standards
The lecture series “Competence based teacher education in Finland” is organized by the Faculty of Educational Science s of the University of Helsinki and the Faculty of Education of the Northeast Normal University in China , and co organized with the Pedagogy Finland ry. The aim of the event is to provide a communication channel for teachers and students on how to develop teacher competence to face the challenges in teaching. The event has invited five excellent teachers working at the Viikki Teacher Training School and the University of Helsinki to give a series of intensive speeches about their knowledge and experience in developing teachers’ competence in Finnish teacher education. The lecture series is publicized to teachers/teacher educators and students in China and Finland. The event has broadened the scope of participation of the audience from various institutions in China and Finland. We have had over 940 participants from 29 institutions in China and 6 institutions in Finland in the total four lectures. It has provided a good chance for teachers/teacher educators and students with various background s to exchange ideas and thoughts. The lecture series has broadened their knowledge, understanding, and vision with an inspiring global mindedness.The event has strengthened the relationship and collaboration between the University of Helsinki and the Northeast Normal University. Based on these experiences, we have started to plan other event s in the future to involve more universities.
Auditory neurocognition and learning – Implications for improved learning practices
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-foreign-languages-affect-music-brain.html is one of several online news reporting the first result of our collaboration with BNU, China/Professor TAO. We're confident that our GINTL-based research outcome will also attract media attention in future in a similar manner.
Unthinking culture, language and interculturality: Together for a shared future
Reflections on the GINTL symposium at the 2023 FERA Conference: ‘Bridging education research, practice and global education development’
Africa, China, India, Global
This year, just like last year, Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL) organised a symposium at the FERA conference centred around the theme ‘Bridging education research, practice and global education development’. In this blogpost, we present highlights from the symposium presentations, emphasise the significance of collaboration as core principle in closing the research-practice gap in education development, and present some key takeaways.
Conference: “Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for our Futures”
Africa, China, India, GlobalOpen for all
Main topic: Conferences and workshops
The “Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures” conference will explore the future of the teaching profession and teachers’ work, and the crucial role that teachers have in shaping the critical, transversal skills that are necessary for our futures as outlined in the seminal report “Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education” by The UNESCO International Commission on the Futures of Education (2021). We aim to gather researchers, teacher educators, teachers, representatives of civil organizations, policy makers and all actors involved in building a sustainable society through education. The Conference will be held at the University of Helsinki, City Center Campus.
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