Collegium for the Sociology of Education
The Collegium for the Sociology of Education is a forum for the scholarly discussion of social, cultural and political dimensions of education and teaching. Through presentations and working seminars, members and invited guests present and discuss their research activities, this including research related to ongoing and finished PhD projects, as well as other research of current interest, national and international. Theoretical, methodological and empirical developments related to the field of the sociology of education are also in focus.
Seminars at the Collegium for the Sociology of Education
2024-11-25 kl. 13.00–15.00
Saara Loukola and Mariona Farré
Place: Pedagogen house A, room A1 338, or via Zoom
Saara Loukola is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She will present her doctoral research analysing processes of racism, antiracism and racialisation in Finnish lower secondary education. As part of the larger RILSE project, Loukola conducts critical ethnographies through interviews with eighth-grade students and educational personnel. Her previous research has focused on antiracism and white normativity in early childhood education.
Mariona Farré is a PhD researcher in the Globalization, Education, and Social Policy research group within the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her thesis project examines educational choices and upper-secondary transitions in rural areas of Catalonia through the lens of social and spatial inequalities. Mariona’s main research interests include sociology of education, youth studies, critical geography, and mixed methods research.
She will present a part of her doctoral research on the impact of educational provision and planning on students’ spatial mobility, specifically on the vocational track, contributing to the discussion of the intertwining between the social construction of space, the construction of the educational field and the configuration of social classes.
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Kind regards
Anna-Maria Fjellman
Ammar Syed
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