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6th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning, 25-28 March
SESSION PROGRAMME (24.3.2015)
THURSDAY
10.00
10.30
11.00
11.30
14.00
14.30
15.00
ADULT EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
Room 113, chair Anja Heikkinen
Theory and research on the professionalisation
of adult educators
Eero Pantzar
We don’t need another hero! – Organization
culture and professional self-perception as
challenges for pre-primary teachers’ ICTpedagogical development
Pekka Mertala
Time squeezed teachers? Structural patterns in
the time use of teachers’ in folk high schools
Per Andersson, Kajsa Ellegård
Immigrant University of Applied Sciences
(UAS) teachers' professional development in
Finland
Anne Tornberg
MULTICULTURAL ADULT EDUCATION
Room 113, chair Karin Filander
Globalization of Norwegian workplaces – how
well are foreign-born workers assimilated into
Norwegian workplaces – what can PIAAC tell
us?
Mary Genevieve Billington
In-between different cultures - International
degree students’ integration experiences and
future career expectations in Higher Education
in Finland.
Vesa Korhonen
Culture-sensitive Research on Cooperation for
the Establishment of an Advanced Training
Academy in China
Steffi Robak, Lisa Marie Lorenz
HIGHER EDUCATION
Room 112, chair Vesa Korhonen
Adult education, opportunity for higher
education
Joo Hyun Park
An Analysis of the Trainings for Adults
Conducted by ‘Continuing Education Centers’
of the Universities in Turkey
Kyymet Selvi, Betül Baldan, Yaprak Alagöz
Analyzing the cooperation between university
and sector: strengths, weaknesses, obstacles
and solution proposals
Dilruba Kürüm Yapicioglu, Ayse Dilek Keser
Institutional perspective on the transition of
mature students to higher education – the
Finnish open university gateway as a case
Nina Haltia
CONTINUING EDUCATION & LLL
Auditorium, chair SoongHee Han
Towards a comprehensive account of adult
learning and development
Stephen Billett
Designing A Comprehensive Higher Level
Lifelong Learning System
Youjin Nam, SoongHee Han, Euitae Kim
SYMPOSIUM
Room 120
Moments of dialogue between theory and
practice – a few cases for reflection
16.30
17.00
Liberal or popular? An empirical and
conceptual analysis of non-vocational adult
Education in Europe
Jyri Manninen
Karin Filander
Tuula Heiskanen
Hanna Ylöstalo
Satu Kalliola
Heidi Kervinen
The emergence of transnational courses on
global justice at the Swedish Folk High Schools
Sofia Österborg Wiklund
NETWORKING IN ADULT EDUCATION
Edu’s Café, chair Jyri Manninen
PHILOSOPHY & POLITICS OF ADULT
EDUCATION
Room 114, chair Per Anderson
Global Justice in Educational Support: For
Whom and Why?
Bryson Kinyaduka
In search of sustainable "peerness"
Katinka Käyhkö
Communities collaborating and learning
together
Sari Poikela
An ideology of economism as educational and
moral phenomena
Jani Pulkki
The Priorities of Lifelong Learning – How
economic and ecological issues are addressed
in the policy texts on lifelong learning from the
1970’s to 2010’s?
Heikki Kinnari, Heikki Silvennoinen
Learning Networks in the Tension-field of Local
and Global
Hanna Toiviainen, Hannele Kerosuo
The Responsibility of Nordic Adult Education
Research and the Planetary Condition
Anja Heikkinen, Jenni Pätäri, Sini Teräsahde
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Zen and the Art of Everything: Governing
Spirituality in Adult Education
Antti Saari, Esko Harni
ICT & ADULT EDUCATION
Room 113, chair Nina Haltia
Planning to design a MOOC? Think first!
Alaa Al Dahdouh, António J. Osório
A Few Key Aspects of Adult Learning Reflected
in the Analysis of the Survey of Adult Skills
(PIAAC): Comparison between Nordic
Countries and the Republic of Korea
Seon Joo Choi, HyunSoo Kim
Perspectives on numeracy in PIAAC– focus on
older workers in Norway
Mary Genevieve Billington
ADULT LEARNING
Edu’s Cafe, chair Annika Turunen
Exploring Learning Processes of Migrants in
Transnational Spaces of Learning
Pauliina Alenius
Adult learning as a creative process
Hróbjartur Árnason
15.30
16.00
LIBERAL ADULT EDUCATION
Room 114, chair Hróbjartur Árnason
Citizenship in a philosophy study circle
Annika Turunen
MOOC and OER for lifelong learning between
formal and informal
Giorgio Poletti
Learning of professionals and innovation
generation in virtual communities
Helena Kantanen, Jyri Manninen
Learning the Alexander Technique: path to
mental-sensory awareness poised in action
Enni Lakkala
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International Unesco summits on adult
education since 1949
Eero Pantzar
Comparative political perspectives of adult
education – subsuming to qualification and
competence strategies or searching for new
missions?
Lorenz Lassnigg
FRIDAY
ADULT EDUCATION IN WORKPLACE
Room 120, chair Jorun M. Stenøien
CONTINUING EDUCATION & LLL
Auditorium, chair Henrik Nordvall
WORKSHOP
Room 113
10.00
Strategies for promoting inclusive learning in
workplaces
Gunn Vedøy, Mary Billington
Becoming an educable lifelong learning adult
subject. Adult graduates' transitions in
education and working life
Päivi Siivonen
Reinforcing the labour market efficiency of
tertiary lifelong learning programs
Yuzhuo Cai, Karsten Krüger, Muir Houston,
Andreas Saniter
10.30
Discretion, work and learning: Contemporary
requirements and processes for worklife
learning and development
Stephen Billett
11.00
The benefits of the University of Applied
Sciences Master's degree (UAS Master's
degree) in working life
Kristiina Ojala
Skills and participation in lifelong learning
among adults with tertiary education. A
comparison between Denmark, Finland,
Norway, Sweden
Tarja Tikkanen, Heikki Silvennoinen,
Per Andersson, Kari Nissinen
Low Performing Readers in the Nordic
Countries
Egil Gabrielsen
11.30
Knowledge workers' professional growth and
learning in digital era
Kirsi Hanhisalo
Nordic cross sectoral further adult education for
sustainable development
Tove Holm, Ellen Stavlund, Kirsten Paaby
chair Vesa Korhonen
chair Annika Turunen
13.30
Manifestations of contradictions in actions
A methodological proposal
Liubov Vetoshkina
14.00
Mapping out a method for enhancing learning of
interpretative practice in robotic surgery
Laura Seppänen, Iina Aaltonen, Leena Norros,
Marika Schaupp, Mikael Wahlström
“Win- win- win” apprentices succeeding through
school industry collaboration
Mary Genevieve Billington, Ann Karin Tennås
Holmen, Ida Holth Mathiesen
Adult education and training: How is it
associated with key information processing
skills in the Nordic countries?
Antero Malin, Sari Sulkunen
Poster Presentation - what to do with the
'elephant in the room'?
Nicholas Rowe
14.30
15.00
The value of knowledge and education when
making a career as a social democratic
parliamentarian in Sweden
Henrik Nordvall
PHILOSOPHY & POLITICS OF ADULT
EDUCATION
Room 114, chair Antti Saari
Can Different Governance Structures Explain
Literacy Outcomes? Evidence From Three
European Country Case Studies
Carolin Knauber, Christina Weiss, Klaus
Schoemann
The Adult Education for What and for Whom?;
The Competence(y)-based Education Policy in
Finland & South Korea
Dong Seob Lee
ADULT EDUCATION PRACTICES
Room 113, chair SoongHee Han
Master-Apprentice Program Empowering the
Learning of Aanar Saami Language
Irmeli Moilanen, Sari Poikela
Lifelong education as a condition for sustainable
development of indigenous peoples of the North
of Russia
Sergey Borgoyakov
ADULT EDUCATION PRACTICES
Edu’s Café, chair Tarja Lang
Adult education and training: participation in the
Nordic countries
Sari Sulkunen, Antero Malin
Literacy and Adult education in Jordan
Nimeh Al-Banna
Main shifts in the politics, economy and
education and the gendered division of work in
East-Africa
Perpetua Kalimasi, Elizabeth Opit
Transcultural Competence: Beyond Care for
Social Inclusion
Lucia Ientile, Giorgia Rossani
Bodily mediation for ecological adult education
Alba Giovanna Anna Naccari
chair Hróbjartur Árnason
Utilising Secondary School Facilities for Adult
Learning Programmes in Tanzania: A Veracity
of Trances
Haruni J. Machumu, Dominick T. Msabila
Perpetua Kalimasi
The impact of adult education systems and
welfare state policies on persons with low
reading levels. A two-level analysis using
PIAAC-data
Klaus Schoemann, Christina Weiss,
Carolin Knauber, Elisabeth Reichart
Triggering Identity Explorations Amongst
Finnish Cadets
Juha Mäkinen
“The Secluded and Threatened Utopia” Transformation of Nordic Equality Politics
Facing Global Reality
Leena Lietzén, Johanna Lätti, Anja Heikkinen