Current
Teaching: Course Visual Research Methodology in Educational Sciences (5 cr)
I teach the optional methodology course in English in the Faculty of educational sciences at the University of Helsinki, 30.10.-9.12.2024.
Course contents: The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to visual methods in order to acquire a deeper understanding for the use and analysis of visual materials in educational sciences. The methods include content analysis and cultural analytics, discourse analysis, semiology, audience studies, ethnographic research, and digital methods. The course presents students with the four sites of a Critical Visual Methodology initially introduced by professor Gillian Rose. The course is well-suited for master's students especially in the data collection and analysis phase of the master's thesis.
Online teaching: Course Youth transitions to work in the Middle East and North Africa (5 ECTS)
I co-teach the second time the course for YUNET – Finnish University Network for Youth Studies, 28.10.-18.12.2024.
Course contents: The 2010s and early 2020s have witnessed turbulent changes in Arab Mediterranean countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The notion of youth has garnered high levels of interest, aspirations, and concerns with regard to young people's roles in social change. In this context, their transitions and particularly transitions from education to work, are framed as a challenge, but also as an opportunity.
This course explores the issue of youth employment and school-to-work transitions in the Middle East and North Africa. The students familiarize themselves with the main social, political, economic, and cultural trends affecting the young people's transitions from education to employment in the region today.
Talk: Exhibition School + Art – Education of the Sense of Beauty, Järvenpää art museum
Researcher Oona Myllyntaus: Art in Schools in Education
Sunday October 13th, 2024, 1 o'clock
Who makes art for and within schools in Finland and what is civic education through art like? To what extent does the Taidetta kouluihin association's idea of cultivating a sense of beauty still live on? In her talk, PhD Oona Myllyntaus, who has made research on art in schools, reflects on how art in schools has changed when our culture has become strongly multicultural and visual.
The duration of the lecture is 45 minutes, places are limited. Participation with the price of a museum admission ticket (€9 / €8 / €4 / Museum card or Kaikukortti / Under 18 years free)
The talk is part of the side program of the art museum's School + Art - Education of the Sense of Beauty exhibition.
Art exhibition of art in schools from the early 20th century to the present day at Järvenpää Art Museum, 6.10.2024-23.2.2025
Press release by City of Järvenpää, October 1st 2024.