Life as Learning, LEARN

Life as Learning (LEARN) is a multi-scientific national research programme on learning. The themes studied in the programme include developing teaching and learning in the school system, new challenges of learning in the working life, new forms of learning, and new teachership and teacher education.

The Academy of Finland choose Hannele Niemi as the Scientific Director and Raija Latva-Karjanmaa as the Coordinator of the programme in February 2002. Niemi was chosen as the 1st Vice-Rector at the University of Helsinki in 2003.

The aim of the research programme is to:

encourage the development of a new research culture and new research partnerships and the creation of interdisciplinary and international research projects around the problems of learning;

find a way of managing the challenges of lifelong and lifewide learning in order to avoid a new kind of exclusion:

create a solid quality interdisciplinary research base for developing teaching and learning in different educational and working-life contexts; and

anticipate future learning needs from the point of view of society, culture and the individual

Tutkimusohjelman puitteissa ON TÄHÄN MENNESSÄ JULKAISTU neljä kotimaista kirjaa oppimistutkimuksen alalta
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Scientific Director
Hannele Niemi
Professor, Vice Rector of the University of Helsinki
hannele.niemi@helsinki.fi

Coordinator of the programme
MA Raija Latva-Karjanmaa
+358 40 563 8929
raija.latva-karjanmaa@helsinki.fi

Programme Assistant
Kirsikka Mattila

Academy of Finland
Science Advisor
Kustaa Multamäki
Culture and Society Research Unit
tel. +358 (0)9 7748 8349
kustaa.multamaki@aka.fi