Pia Mikander
Biographic Data
| ID | 5994036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pia Mikander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikander |
| SIGNATURE | MIKANDER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6469-5230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Racism and anti-racism in medical education
BACKGROUND: Racism negatively impacts health, and it has both structural and interpersonal manifestations in medicine. In Finnish medical education, diversity, equity, and inclusion work is still in its infancy. This is the first study examining Finnish medical students' perspectives on racism and anti-racism during their studies. METHODS: An online survey was distributed to medical students across Finland. The responses (N = 150) were analyzed u…
Hegemonic representations of democracy as a straitjacket for social studies education
In a time where democracy is threatened, and authoritarianism spreading into different sectors of society, we find there to be an urgent need to disentangle education about society from a narrow discourse of democracy. Departing from research on Finnish social studies textbooks, we argue in this conceptual article that hegemonic representations of democracy restrict citizenship education and hinder social and political imagination – and thereby l…
Resisting solutionism and apathy
Nordic exceptionalism conveys a perception of innocence whereby Nordic states are exemplary in regard to justice, as exemplary states, including a strong dedication in education to action competence around sustainable development. Yet, Nordic countries are embedded in, not outside, longstanding global power inequalities. This necessitates a critically reflective approach to global citizenship education (GCE). This paper explores corresponding ten…
Constructing Agency in the Climate Crisis
The climate crisis is an urgent issue that requires immediate and significant international action and is tightly connected to several other global problems such as biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and countercurrents to democracy. Therefore, enabling the construction of an agentive role in relation to the crisis is a crucial task for education. According to the national core curriculum, Finnish social studies teaching should aim for activ…
Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in Därför demokrati. Om kunskapen och folkstyret [Because of this, democracy. On knowledge and people’s rule] Fri Tanke, 2021; Svolik et al. in J Democr 34(1):5–20, 2023). This article draws upon a theoretical discussion about democracy, p…
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool
This study investigates how the staff in one preschool group in Finland deals with questions of social class. Despite a lack of reference to class in policy documents, social class emerges in three ways in the discussions among the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals: regarding how they view their group of children, in relation to their own inter‐relational dynamics, and in their perception of the practice in another less priv…
Intercultural education in transition
Over the last several decades intercultural education has played a key role in many educational policies and practices, both across the Nordic countries and internationally. In this article we examine current conceptual discourses on intercultural education with an emphasis on developments in the Nordic research context. The analysis shows how the concept of intercultural education and its focus on “culture” has been criticised in the Nordic coun…
Intercultural education in transition
Over the last several decades intercultural education has played a key role in many educational policies and practices, both across the Nordic countries and internationally. In this article we examine current conceptual discourses on intercultural education with an emphasis on developments in the Nordic research context. The analysis shows how the concept of intercultural education and its focus on “culture” has been criticised in the Nordic coun…
Intercultural education in transition
Over the last several decades intercultural education has played a key role in many educational policies and practices, both across the Nordic countries and internationally. In this article we examine current conceptual discourses on intercultural education with an emphasis on developments in the Nordic research context. The analysis shows how the concept of intercultural education and its focus on “culture” has been criticised in the Nordic coun…
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool
This study investigates how the staff in one preschool group in Finland deals with questions of social class. Despite a lack of reference to class in policy documents, social class emerges in three ways in the discussions among the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals: regarding how they view their group of children, in relation to their own inter‐relational dynamics, and in their perception of the practice in another less priv…
Constructing Agency in the Climate Crisis
The climate crisis is an urgent issue that requires immediate and significant international action and is tightly connected to several other global problems such as biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and countercurrents to democracy. Therefore, enabling the construction of an agentive role in relation to the crisis is a crucial task for education. According to the national core curriculum, Finnish social studies teaching should aim for activ…
Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in Därför demokrati. Om kunskapen och folkstyret [Because of this, democracy. On knowledge and people’s rule] Fri Tanke, 2021; Svolik et al. in J Democr 34(1):5–20, 2023). This article draws upon a theoretical discussion about democracy, p…
Racism and anti-racism in medical education
BACKGROUND: Racism negatively impacts health, and it has both structural and interpersonal manifestations in medicine. In Finnish medical education, diversity, equity, and inclusion work is still in its infancy. This is the first study examining Finnish medical students' perspectives on racism and anti-racism during their studies. METHODS: An online survey was distributed to medical students across Finland. The responses (N = 150) were analyzed u…
Hegemonic representations of democracy as a straitjacket for social studies education
In a time where democracy is threatened, and authoritarianism spreading into different sectors of society, we find there to be an urgent need to disentangle education about society from a narrow discourse of democracy. Departing from research on Finnish social studies textbooks, we argue in this conceptual article that hegemonic representations of democracy restrict citizenship education and hinder social and political imagination – and thereby l…
Resisting solutionism and apathy
Nordic exceptionalism conveys a perception of innocence whereby Nordic states are exemplary in regard to justice, as exemplary states, including a strong dedication in education to action competence around sustainable development. Yet, Nordic countries are embedded in, not outside, longstanding global power inequalities. This necessitates a critically reflective approach to global citizenship education (GCE). This paper explores corresponding ten…
Global Education and Multiculturalism (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)