Work Package 3: Capacity building of teachers for resilient schools of tomorrow and legal requirements for adaptive and sustainable education
Concern has risen during the COVID-19 pandemic about the well-being of teachers and teacher training students in unpredictable crises, their competence to support pupils regardless of the form of teaching, and the inequality of children and young people. Therefore, work package 3 aims at developing models, tools and content for teacher training which will strengthen the teacher training students' interaction and socio-emotional competence, capacity to foster diversity and guide peer interaction, and deal also with challenging teaching situations in exceptional circumstances. WP3 works in broad cooperation with stakeholders. In addition, WP3 will analyse how the existing legal rules should be interpreted and applied to ensure the children's right to equal and high-quality education and to supportive learning environment. WP3 will also examine if organizing the equal and high-quality education requires changes to the legislation.
Research group

Marja Vauras
PI of the work package
Research Director, Professor Emerita, University of Turku
Expertise: Learning, teaching and interaction
Tuulikki Mikkola
Vice-PI of the work package
Professor of private international law and family law, University of Turku
Expertise: Juridics, child law
Anu Kajamies
University Research Fellow, University of Turku
Expertise: Strengthening the interaction and emotional competence of teachers and teacher education
Piia Näykki
Associate Professor, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: research on teacher education, learning processes, learning skills, collaborative learning, digital learning
Olli-Pekka Heinimäki
Senior Researcher, University of Turku
Expertise: Learning in interaction, students' peer interaction and guiding peer interaction, collaborative learning, group processes, observational analysis
Anne-Elina Salo
Senior researcher, University of Turku; Postdoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Educators’ and learners’ socio-emotional and interaction competencies, diverse needs and inclusive practices, loneliness, and family relationships and well-being
Mikko Tiilikainen
Senior Researcher, University of Turku
Expertise: research on teacher education (esp. guided practice-based reflex and educational resilience), educational theory, qualitative research
Saara Ylisaukko-oja
Project Researcher, Doctoral Researcher, University of Turku
Expertise: Children's rights
Virve Valtonen
Project Researcher, University of Turku
Expertise: Children's rights
Janne Lepola
University of Turku
Anna Eskola
University of Turku
Janne Salminen
Expert member, professor, PI of the JuRe consortium (PANDEMICS)
University of Turku, Faculty of Law
Mirjam Rasmus
Expert member, University of Turku