Pre-service Teachers Navigate Teachers’ Changing Work and Its Relationality (NAVI)
Project information
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Other Finnish
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Project coordinator
University of Oulu
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Project leader
- Professor
- Senior research fellow
Other persons
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Project description
Teachers’ work has recently been marked by a multitude of changes, including those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes have also greatly affected relationships in educational contexts. During teacher education, pre-service teachers form their understandings of the teaching profession. The changes to teachers’ work, therefore, demand exploration of how pre-service teachers make sense of the changes and the relationality within. The research project ‘Pre-service Teachers Navigate Teachers’ Changing Work and Its Relationality’ (NAVI) will focus on this exploration by obtaining various narrative sources of data from pre- service primary school and subject teachers. The project will occur at the University of Oulu (2022–2025). The profound theoretical understanding of relationality in teachers’ work gained by this project will be utilised to support pre- and in-service teachers’ continuous professional development. NAVI-project is executed in close collaboration with the research project ‘Unpacking and Redefining Changing Relationships in Teachers’ Work’ (RELA) funded by the Research Council of Finland.
Project results
Scientific articles
Lutovac, S., & Havia, J. (2024). Prospective mathematics teachers’ collective identity work: Navigating failure experiences and concerns about relating to students. NOMAD Nordic Studies in Mathematics Education, 29(3-4), 19–40. https://doi.org/10.7146/nomad.v29i3-4.150751
Kaasila, R., & Lutovac, S. (2024). Analyzing Burkean Rhetoric in Pre-service Teachers’ Identity Narratives. In E. K. Hyry-Beihammer, O. Ylitapio-Mantyla and M. Uitto (eds.), Narratives in Educational Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68350-3_10
Kettunen, A., Uitto, M., & Lutovac, S. (2024). Exploring the use of pre-service teachers' visual narratives in the arts-based workshop to study emotions. In E. K. Hyry-Beihammer, O. Ylitapio-Mantyla and M. Uitto (eds.), Narratives in Educational Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68350-3_6
Lutovac, S., & Körkkö, M. (2024). ‘A teacher’s work is many things, but one thing it is not is easy’: pre-service teachers’ conceptions of teachers’ work. European Journal of Teacher Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2388630
Körkkö, M., Lutovac, S., & Korte, S.-M. (2024). The sense of inadequacy and uncertainty arising from teacher work: Perspectives of pre- and in-service teachers. International Journal of Educational Research, 127, 102410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102410
Körkkö, M., & Lutovac, S. (2024). Relational perplexities of today’s teachers: social-emotional competence perspective. Teaching Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2023.2298194
Kettunen, A., Lassila, E.T., Lutovac, S., & Uitto, M. (2023). Becoming a safe adult for pupils: Emotions as part of first-year student teachers' narrative identities told with photographs. European Journal of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2023.2211730
Holappa, A., Lassila, E. T., Lutovac, S., & Uitto, M. (2022). Vulnerability as an emotional dimension in student teachers’ narrative identities told with self-portraits. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 66(5), 893-906. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2021.1939144
Conference presentations
Kettunen (née Holappa), A., Uitto, M. & Lutovac, S. (2023, June). Employing visual narratives in pre-service teachers’ peer group to gain deeper insight into emotions. Paper presented at the Narrative Matters conference, Tampere.
Körkkö, M. & Lutovac, S. (2023, August). Unpacking the diversity in teachers' work: pre- and in-service teachers' conceptions, Paper presented at European Conference of Educational Research, Glasgow.
Kettunen (née Holappa), A. (2021, November). Kerrotut valokuvat ikkunana opettajaksi opiskelevien identiteetteihin ja niihin kietoutuviin tunteisiin. Paper presented at the FERA conference on education, Jyväskylä.
Holappa, A. (2021, September). Storied photographs as a window into student teacher identity construction and emotions involved. Paper presented at the The Annual Conference of Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), Warsaw.
Holappa, A. (2021, February). Valokuvin kerrotut tunteet osana opettajaksi opiskelevien identiteettejä. Paper presented at the Teaching, Teachers and Educational Communities (TTEC) Symposium on Teacher Education, Oulu.
Holappa, A. (2020, December). Valokuvin kerrotut tunteet osana opettajaksi opiskelevien identiteettejä. The Finnish Educational Research Association Conference (FERA), Helsinki.