The workshops are part of the ongoing FORTHEM Campus period hosted by the University of Jyväskylä
These workshops are offered as a part of researcher training; however, they are suitable for students of all levels as well as in-service teachers. You are welcome to participate in two sessions:
- Tuesday, 10 October 2023 from 14:15 to 15:45 EET in P 302 Lyhty
Petteri Laihonen and Venla Rantanen (University of Jyväskylä): Theoretical foundations of Citizen Science - Session 10: Tuesday, 31 October 2023 from 14:15 to 15:45 EET in B 248 Väite
Petteri Laihonen and Venla Rantanen (University of Jyväskylä): How to design and implement a Citizen Science project on multilingualism in school?
The workshop languages will be English and Finnish; however the use of other languages will be encouraged and supported as well.
Petteri Laihonen (PhD) serves as Senior Researcher in the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU). His current research deals with multilingual learning environments which include minority languages. Between 2021 and 2023, he served as the JYU Principal Investigator for the project ‘A European multilingual citizen science research project in co-located schools in Finland and Italy’. He also represents JYU in the project ‘Nordic Basic Schools as Past, Present and Future Sites for Solving the Challenges of Making Diverse Inclusive Knowledge-Based Societies’. In the FORTHEM Alliance, he serves as Alliance level Coordinator for the Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab and a Principal Investigator for the Lab’s project Modelling Citizen Science for Education, where he develops extreme citizen science methods to study multilingualism in schools.
Venla Rantanen (MA) is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research interests include e.g., multilingualism, multilingual/-cultural pedagogy, equity in education, linguistic ethnography, discourse studies and inclusive research. Venla has also worked as a classroom teacher in primary education in the multicultural schools of East Helsinki. During the academic year 2022–2023, she conducted a Citizen Science based research project with 8-year-olds as part of her doctoral dissertation.
The workshops are part of the FORTHEM Campus course Approaches to Multilingualism developed by contributors of Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab.
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Tamás Péter Szabó
Senior Lecturer, Adjunct Professor
Department of Teacher Education