Education, Texts and Technologies

Overview

Core fields of research

Learning, teaching and interaction

Research areas

JYU.Well

Digitalization in and for learning and interaction

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Department

Department of Teacher Education

Research group description

The Education, Texts and Technologies (ETT) research group conducts interdisciplinary research on the relationships between education and training, texts and technologies. Our research topics are diverse. At the moment, the focus in on issues such as:

• datafication of nonformal education, such as junior sports (the PARADOX project)
• datafication of institutional education and its implications for school practices and objectives (the MODALITY project),
• the technological conceptions of children and young people, and their professional educators (e.g., AI projects in the Innokas Network)
• people's everyday data literacies (Running with Data -project)

ETT also has its own master's thesis group, which produces around 10 theses a year.
 

Current

Related news

Science news

26.5.2025

Researchers explored the future of datafication in primary schools - will the machine replace the teacher?

How do experts working on digitalisation see the future of datafication in primary schools?

Projects

Related projects

Project

Resolving the Ethical Paradoxes of Data-Informed Talent Identification in Junior Sports through Data Literacy (PARADOX)

The PARADOX project investigates and addresses the ethical challenges in data-informed talent identification processes in junior sports.

Project

Movement for Data Literacy (MODALITY)

The project investigates datafication within schools and develops methods of enhancing students' data literacy.

Project

AI projects in the Innokas Network

Research on AI projects in basic education and early childhood education in the Innokas Network

Project

Running with Data

Tuotamme uutta ihmislähtöistä ymmärrystä siitä, millaista juoksu ja juokseminen on digitaalisen datan aikakaudella.

Members

Members

Pekka Mertala

Associate professor

Janne Fagerlund

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lauri Palsa

Postdoctoral Researcher

External members

Teemu Hanhela

Jyväskylän yliopisto

Publications

Publications

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Artesaaniajattelua ja itsekasvatusta

Kasvatus.

Palsa, Lauri

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Experts’ discourses of children in the context of datafication of education

Childhood.

Mertala, Pekka

Fagerlund, Janne

Palsa, Lauri

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Exploration of domains of educational purpose in K-12 data literacy education research

Educational Research Review.

Fagerlund, Janne

Palsa, Lauri

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Exploring the Futures of Datafied Welfare State Education : Thematic Analysis of Sociotechnical Imaginaries

Social Inclusion.

Palsa, Lauri

Fagerlund, Janne

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Leikin lyhyt suhteellisuusteoria

Lapsibarometri 2025. Lapsiasiavaltuutetun toimiston julkaisuja.

Mertala, Pekka

Mustola, Marleena

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Miksi medialukutaidosta tulee edelleen puhua?

Kasvatus & Aika.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2025

Available through Open Access

Technologies of and for performance : A frame analysis of recreational runners' technology use

Performance Enhancement & Health.

Palsa, Lauri

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2025

Tulevaisuudesta kehkeytyvää mediakasvatusta hahmottamassa

Futura.

Palsa, Lauri

Prusskij, Christa

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Contextualizing Everyday Data Literacies : The Case of Recreational Runners

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

Palsa, Lauri

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Datafixation of education

Datafizierung (in) der Bildung. Digitale Gesellschaft. Transcript Verlag.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Diginatiivimyytin lyhyt oppimäärä

Kasvatus ja aika.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Digital natives in the scientific literature : A topic modeling approach

Computers in Human Behavior.

Mertala, Pekka

López-Pernas, Sonsoles

Vartiainen, Henriikka

Saqr, Mohammed

Tedre, Matti

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