Political Philosophies and Sociologies of Education
The recordings from the first three POISED Quarterly seminars with the theme ”Trouble in Education” are now available in the internet. You can access them through this link.
Please remember that we have one more installation of Trouble in Education coming up. On the 9th of April at 15-16 (UTC+2) Heikki Kinnari will be presenting on Rage against the ability-capital machine – Cognitive Capitalism, lifelong learning and acts of resistance. You are most warmly welcome to join us then!
Our POISED Quarterly seminar continues with Karin Murris, who is Professor of Early Childhood Education at University of Oulu. In her presentation, Murris proposes childing as a post-age, postqualitative research methodology that radically reconfigures agency, identity, and “the Other” in child studies.
Through a playful video clip of seven-year-old Aatu’s death-play with plasticine, Murris explores how childing unsettles human exceptionalism, adult-centrism, and the assumption that subjectivity or identity precedes research. Rather than following “the child” as a bounded subject, she asks what becomes possible when we attend to difference as differencing through Aatu’s playworlding—a practice not limited to age or the human. This ontological re-turn invites researchers to turn the gaze back on their own measuring apparatuses and agential cuts, and how these constitute “the child” as Other.
The seminar is held in Zoom and can be accessed via this link. You are warmly welcome!
Kasvatusfilosofian väitöskirjassaan filosofian maisteri Pasi Takkinen tutki, kuinka pahenevat globaalit kestävyyshaasteet vaikuttavat kasvatusajattelun filosofisiin lähtökohtiin. Katso väitöstiedote ja lataa väitöskirja täältä.
Good news for POISED! KONE foundation published its funding decisions in December 2025. Antti Saari received funding for a three year project examining subtle traces of the past in new school spaces.
Moreover, POISED researcher Jan Varpanen received funding as a post-doctoral reseacher in the project Microbial Childhood: Restor(y)ing Daycare Ecologies II led by Professor Zsuzsa Millei.
Read more about KONE funding decisions here.
Our next POISED-Quarterly seminar will take place on 20 November 2025, featuring Anni Piironen as the speaker. The session will be chaired by Jan Varpanen.
In her presentation, Piironen examines Michel Serres’ concept of the parasite and combines it with empirical data to interpret the conditions for encounter in the pedagogical relationship. By analyzing the teacher’s feelings of anger, she outlines the basis for a new theory of pedagogical relationship.
Session will be held in Zoom, and can be accessed via this link. They are open to everyone – welcome!
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