Juha Suoranta
Encyclopedia
Adult education
Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. Adult education takes place in the workplace, through 'extension' school or 'school of continuing education' . Other learning places include folk high schools, community colleges, and lifelong learning centers...
at the University of Tampere
University of Tampere
The University of Tampere is a university in Tampere, Finland. It has 15,400 degree students and 2,100 employees. It was originally founded in 1925 in Helsinki as a Civic College , and from 1930 onwards it was known as a School of Social Sciences...
. Previously he worked as Professor of Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
at the University of Lapland
University of Lapland
The University of Lapland is located in the city of Rovaniemi, Finland. It was founded in 1979.The university is divided into four faculties:* Faculty of Art and Design* Faculty of Education* Faculty of Law* Faculty of Social Sciences...
(1997–2004), and Professor of Adult Education at the University of Joensuu (2004–2006). He is also Adjunct Professor in Music Education
Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
at the Sibelius Academy
Sibelius Academy
The Sibelius Academy is a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki. The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities...
, Helsinki, and in media education
Media literacy
Media literacy is a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms.-Education:...
at the University of Tampere. In sum he has published 33 books and umpteen scientific articles .
Suoranta has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
in 1996-1997, and at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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in 2003-2004. Suoranta has served as the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professor in Finnish Studies
Finnish Studies
Finnish Studies is a research area which is part of humanities and social sciences, and usually studies Finnish language, Finnish culture and Finnish history.-Finnish Studies in North America:...
and Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
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in 2005-2006.
In 2003 he acted as Senior Scientist in the Academy of Finland
Academy of Finland
The Academy of Finland is a governmental funding body for scientific research in Finland. It is based in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Yearly, the Academy administers over 260 million euros to Finnish research activities. Over 5,000 researchers are working on the projects supported by the academy...
. He has also served as a short-term educational expert in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
, and a consultant and author for the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
' World Youth Report 2003.
Suoranta has published extensively in the fields of education, political sociology of education
Sociology of education
The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing...
, radical adult education, critical media education, and critical pedagogy belonging to the new, or second, generation of critical pedagogy scholars. In the latter area he has collaborated with Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren is a Professor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles . He is the author and editor of forty-five books and hundreds of scholarly articles and chapters...
. In his writing Suoranta has been interested in bringing together ideas and material from various disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, educational studies, literature studies and literature.
Suoranta is a member of Editorial Boards of several scientific journals, including Scientific Journals International. He has been the President of the Finnish Educational Association Citizen's Forum (SKAF), a major adult education organization in Finland, from 2007 on. Besides English and Finnish, his texts have been published in Estonian, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish.
In 2007 Suoranta helped found the Paulo Freire Research Center–Finland, the first Paulo Freire Center in the Nordic countries.
In the Spring 2009 Suoranta provided a hiding place for an afghan-born underaged asylum seeker, who was about to be deported from Finland to the streets of Athens in Greece without secure. These events are documented in his book Piilottajan päiväkirja
Piilottajan päiväkirja
Hiding a Stranger is Professor Juha Suoranta's non-fiction on helping a minor asylum seeker in Finland. The book is based on the author's journal and it is a story about his attempt to protect another person, Ashraf Sahil, and to help him from deportation to inhuman conditions.Sahil, who as a...
(Hiding a Stranger)
Major works
In English- The Integrated Media Machine I: A Theoretical Framework (Co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola, Sam Inkinen and Jari Rinne), 2000.
- The Integrated Media Machine II: Aspects of Internet Culture, Hypertechnologies, and Informal Learning (Co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola and Sam Inkinen), 2001.
- Architecture: Theory, Research, and Practice. (with Seppo Aura and Juhani Katainen), 2001.
- Children in the Information Society: The Case of Finland (with Hanna Lehtimäki), 2004. ISBN 0-8204-6829-0
- Artistic Research. Theories, Methods, and Practices (with Mika Hannula and Tere Vadén), 2005. ISBN 951-53-2743-1 Contents
- Education and the Spirit of Time. Historical, Global and Critical Reflections (co-edited with Olli-Pekka Moisio), 2006. ISBN 90-77874-17-8 Contents
- Wikiworld. Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and the Promise of Participatory Media (with Tere Vadén), 2008. ISBN 978-951-44-7281-7 Download
- Havoc of Capitalism. Educating for Social and Environmental Justice (co-edited with Gregory Martin, Donna Houston & Peter McLaren), 2010 https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=979&osCsid=f5cf466f3f49672d24b50b75d772f164.
- Wikiworld. Revisited Edition. (with Tere Vadén), 2010. ISBN 9780745328911 http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328911&
In Finnish
- Enlightening Education, 1997.
- Introduction to Qualitative Research (with Jari Eskola), 1998 (8th ed. 2008).
- Education in the Simulation Culture (with Mauri Ylä-Kotola), 2000.
- Edifying Adult Education (with Petri Salo), 2002.
- Education in the Media Culture. What Educators Need to Know, 2003.
- Radical Education. Towards a Political Sociology of Education, 2005.
- At the Crossroads of Adult Education (with Juha Kauppila and Hilkka Rekola), 2006.
- The Coming University (with Antti Salminen and Tere Vadén), 2010.
- Piilottajan päiväkirjaPiilottajan päiväkirjaHiding a Stranger is Professor Juha Suoranta's non-fiction on helping a minor asylum seeker in Finland. The book is based on the author's journal and it is a story about his attempt to protect another person, Ashraf Sahil, and to help him from deportation to inhuman conditions.Sahil, who as a...
[Hiding a Stranger], 2010.
Research articles on wikilearning by Juha Suoranta
- Leinonen, Teemu, Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén (2009) Learning in and with an open wiki project: Wikiversity’s potential in global capacity building. First Monday 14 (2). http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2252/2093
- Suoranta, Juha (2010) Learners and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Wikify! In Malott, Curry & Porfilio, Bradley (Eds.). Critical Pedagogy in the 21st Century: A New Generation of Scholars. Information Age Publishing. http://suoranta.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/suoranta_learners-and-oppressed-peoples-of-the-world.pdf
- Suoranta, Juha & Tere Vadén (2011) Wikilearning as Radical Equality. In Trifonas, Peter (ed.). Learning in the Virtual: Public Pedagogy in the Digital Age. London & New York: Routledge. http://suoranta.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/wikilearning-as-radical-equality.pdf
Links
- Juha Suoranta's profile in Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy: http://freire.mcgill.ca/Juha_Suoranta
- Paulo Freire Research Center–Finland http://paulofreirefinland.org/