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Niina Putkonen

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ID1048438
NAMENiina Putkonen
GIVEN NAMESNiina
FAMILY NAMEPutkonen
SIGNATUREPUTKONEN N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0001-7028-6030
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0
  • Letters to researcher: Parents’ ideals concerning Islamic religious education in Finnish schools

    Open Access•Niina Putkonen, Inkeri Rissanen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Intercultural…•2026•References: 8

  • Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education

    Open Access•Niina Putkonen, Saila Poulter et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Religious…•2025

    In this paper, we explore the educational purposes of Islamic religious education (IRE) and discuss IRE as a place for navigating the existential. We aim to explore the functions of IRE outside of identity policies or of instrumental use, such as inclusion in society or competences for the future. Towards this goal, we employ the conceptualisation of the three domains of educational purpose, subjectification, socialization and qualification, conc…

  • Allah, God, YHWH, Gott: Language-Aware Perspectives on References to God in Religious and Worldview Education. A Comparative Study of Finnish and German School Textbooks

    Niina Putkonen, Lena Tacke•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Theology•2024

    Language awareness is part of religious and worldview education. In this study, we understand religious and worldview education as language-sensitive and argue that it is necessary to investigate the perspectives on religious language in language-aware school pedagogy. In our view, religious language can be an identity marker which navigates and reflects one’s position. We analysed the language used in Finnish and German secondary school textbook…

  • Balancing Differences through Highlighting the Common: Religious Education Teachers' Perceptions of the Diversity of Islam in Islamic Religious Education in Finnish State Schools

    Open Access•Niina Putkonen, Saila Poulter•ARTICLE•Religions•2023•References: 41

    Muslims are Finland's largest and fastest-growing religious minority. In Finnish state schools, the number of pupils studying Islamic religious education (IRE) has almost doubled in a decade, and IRE has its own national curriculum, which is based on the general principles of Islam. Pupils are diverse in terms of their languages, cultures, ethnicities and in their religious and worldview backgrounds, religious diversity being reflected in the rel…

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  • Balancing Differences through Highlighting the Common: Religious Education Teachers' Perceptions of the Diversity of Islam in Islamic Religious Education in Finnish State Schools

    Open Access•Niina Putkonen, Saila Poulter•ARTICLE•Religions•2023•References: 41

    Muslims are Finland's largest and fastest-growing religious minority. In Finnish state schools, the number of pupils studying Islamic religious education (IRE) has almost doubled in a decade, and IRE has its own national curriculum, which is based on the general principles of Islam. Pupils are diverse in terms of their languages, cultures, ethnicities and in their religious and worldview backgrounds, religious diversity being reflected in the rel…

  • Allah, God, YHWH, Gott: Language-Aware Perspectives on References to God in Religious and Worldview Education. A Comparative Study of Finnish and German School Textbooks

    Niina Putkonen, Lena Tacke•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Theology•2024

    Language awareness is part of religious and worldview education. In this study, we understand religious and worldview education as language-sensitive and argue that it is necessary to investigate the perspectives on religious language in language-aware school pedagogy. In our view, religious language can be an identity marker which navigates and reflects one’s position. We analysed the language used in Finnish and German secondary school textbook…

  • Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education

    Open Access•Niina Putkonen, Saila Poulter et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Religious…•2025

    In this paper, we explore the educational purposes of Islamic religious education (IRE) and discuss IRE as a place for navigating the existential. We aim to explore the functions of IRE outside of identity policies or of instrumental use, such as inclusion in society or competences for the future. Towards this goal, we employ the conceptualisation of the three domains of educational purpose, subjectification, socialization and qualification, conc…

  • Letters to researcher: Parents’ ideals concerning Islamic religious education in Finnish schools

    Open Access•Niina Putkonen, Inkeri Rissanen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Intercultural…•2026•References: 8

Islam (4 works) · Religious education (4 works) · Religious Education and Schools (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religion, Theology, and Education (2 works) · Religious diversity (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works)

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