Tuovi Leppänen

Project Manager/ Senior Lecturer

  • Institution Jamk University of Applied Sciences
  • Department/faculty School of Professional Teacher Education

Teacher Preparation Programme through ODL Mode for Enhancing Quality in Education jamk.fi/Nepal Community power learning process: A substantive theory about adult group learning experiences (PhD - thesis) https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/56980

Projects

Teacher Preparation Programme through ODL Mode for Enhancing Quality in Education

Henna Rinta-Kiikka

Project Researcher, Doctoral Researcher

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland
  • Department/faculty Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Project Researcher at the Fine Particle and Aerosol Technology Laboratory (FINE), specializing in small-scale combustion and its emissions. Currently, I am working on the "Technological and socio-economic solutions to reduce indoor air pollution in Nepal" project.

Tiina Seppälä

University lecturer, docent

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr. Tiina Seppälä is a university lecturer in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki and adjunct professor of International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has engaged with women’s rights and slum activists in Nepal and Bangladesh, anti-eviction movements in India, asylum seekers in Finland and anti-war activists in the UK. She is interested in development, displacement, social movements, post/decolonial and feminist theory, ethnographic research and arts-based methods.

Projects

Governance, Resistance and Neoliberal Development: Struggles against Development-Induced Displacement and Forced Evictions in South Asia

Vilma Timonen

Senior Lecturer, Researcher

  • Institution University of the Arts, Helsinki, Sibelius Academy
  • Department/faculty Folk Music Department

Timonen, V. (in review). Lessons from a Finnish and Nepali collaboration: Co-constructing an intercultural professional learning community in music education. Timonen, V., Juntunen M-L., Westerlund H. (in review). Colonialism or an invitation for utopian life-projects? On politics of reflexivity in Nepali and Finnish music teachers’ intercultural dialogue. In Kallio, A., Karlsen, S., Marsh, K., Saether, E., Westerlund, H. (Eds.), The Politics of Diversity in Music Education. Treacy D.S., Timonen V., Kallio A. A., Shah, I. (2019). Imagining Beyond Ends-in-view: The Ethics of Assessment as Valuation in Nepali Music Education. In D.J. Elliott, M. Silvermann & G. McPhearson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education. Oxford University Press. Timonen, V., Houmann, A., Sether, E. (2020). The reinvented music teacher-researcher in the making: Conducting educational development through intercultural collaboration. In Westerlund, H., Karlsen, S., Partti, H. (Eds.) Visions for intercultural music teacher education. Springer.

Danielle Treacy

Doctoral researcher

  • Institution University of the Arts Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Sibelius Academy

Danielle Treacy's doctoral research aims to examine how the process of co-constructing visions with musician-teachers in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal could contribute to the development of ethically engaged music teacher education and music education research.