News from the Faculty of Education and Psychology

M.A. (Educ.) Soila Lemmetty defends her doctoral dissertation in subject "Self-directed workplace learning in technology-based work".

The overall aim of the current thesis is to examine reading development over time (from age 2 to 16) and investigate the key factors for the early identification and resolution of reading difficulties.

M.A. (Educ.) Tuija Leena Viirret defends her doctoral dissertation in subject "Dialogism as an Integral Element in Process Drama: Insights into a Drama Teacher’s Artistic-Pedagogical Expertise"

Master of Engineering Weiyong Xu defends his doctoral dissertation in subject "Brain activity changes related to learning of audiovisual associations in reading".

Student’s agency is now called for more than ever before.

JYU’s research in education ranked 36th in the Shanghai Ranking.

Co-authors Daria Khanolainen from the University of Jyväskylä and Elena Semenova from Kazan Federal University developed and piloted an innovative arts-based methodology for sensitive research.

Democracy and education for democracy play only a marginal role in European teacher training.

Creativity in working life can be approached as a learning process.

Research in education at the University of Jyväskylä was on the top 100 list of the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Education was positioned 51–100, which is improvement from the previous year.

Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä was placed 176–200 in the ranking of the best universities. Times Higher Education – World University Rankings listed the top 494 universities in Psychology. JYU’s position dropped slightly from the previous year.

Some of the findings in cognitive neuroscience and psychology do not seem to replicate from one study to the next. Could this also be true for commonly used brain response studies?