Tapio Rasa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6631224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tapio Rasa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tapio |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasa |
| SIGNATURE | RASA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1315-5207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Postdigital Dissensus
The adoption of new technologies often concerns a range of people across and around higher education (HE) institutions, spurring the need for various, possibly dissenting voices to be heard. This paper explores the complexity of this issue through the concept of postdigital dissensus. I examine how sociotechnical stances and discourses regarding digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) in HE relate to dissensus and lack of sociotechnical c…
Education and the Future
Education is inherently entangled with the future. This argumentative review examines this entanglement and proposes a framework differentiating between four educational orientations towards the future. The orientation ‘Futures of education’ examines how education changes in the future: From rhetorical to visionary, these futures are concerned with issues such as educational technology. ‘Education to adapt to the future’ is concerned with how edu…
Agency and Transformative Potential of Technology in Students’ Images of the Future
Various current trends in education highlight the importance of pedagogies that address societal and environmental questions while preparing and inspiring students to take action. Meanwhile, how we view the future influences how we act, and how we act influences the future. Research on young people’s images of the future has shown how technology plays a central role in how we imagine the future and the changes that shape it. This suggests a need …
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics
Modelling roles of mathematics in physics has proved to be a difficult task, with previous models of the interplay between the two disciplines mainly focusing on mathematical modelling and problem solving. However, to convey a realistic view of physics as a field of science to our students, we need to do more than train them to become fluent in modelling and problem solving. In this article, we present a new characterisation of the roles mathemat…
Futurising science education
To promote students’ value-based agency, responsible science and sustainability, science education must address how students think about their personal and collective futures. However, research has shown that young people find it difficult to fully relate to the future and its possibilities, and few studies have focused on the potential of science education to foster futures thinking and agency. We report on a project that further explored this p…
Young people’s technological images of the future
Modern technology has had and continues to have various impacts on societies and human life in general. While technology in some ways defines the ‘digital age’ of today, discourses of ‘technological progress’ may dominate discussions of tomorrow. Conceptions of technology and futures seem to be intertwined, as technology has been predicted by experts to lead us anywhere between utopia and extinction within as little as a century. Understandably, …
Facilitating transformative science education through futures thinking
Purpose The aims and pedagogies in the field of science education are evolving because of global sustainability crises. School science is increasingly concerned with responsible agency and value-based transformation. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to argue that perspectives and methods from the field of futures studies are needed to meet the new transformative aims of science education for sustainable development. Design/methodology/appr…
Young people’s technological images of the future
Modern technology has had and continues to have various impacts on societies and human life in general. While technology in some ways defines the ‘digital age’ of today, discourses of ‘technological progress’ may dominate discussions of tomorrow. Conceptions of technology and futures seem to be intertwined, as technology has been predicted by experts to lead us anywhere between utopia and extinction within as little as a century. Understandably, …
Facilitating transformative science education through futures thinking
Purpose The aims and pedagogies in the field of science education are evolving because of global sustainability crises. School science is increasingly concerned with responsible agency and value-based transformation. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to argue that perspectives and methods from the field of futures studies are needed to meet the new transformative aims of science education for sustainable development. Design/methodology/appr…
Futurising science education
To promote students’ value-based agency, responsible science and sustainability, science education must address how students think about their personal and collective futures. However, research has shown that young people find it difficult to fully relate to the future and its possibilities, and few studies have focused on the potential of science education to foster futures thinking and agency. We report on a project that further explored this p…
Young people’s technological images of the future
Modern technology has had and continues to have various impacts on societies and human life in general. While technology in some ways defines the ‘digital age’ of today, discourses of ‘technological progress’ may dominate discussions of tomorrow. Conceptions of technology and futures seem to be intertwined, as technology has been predicted by experts to lead us anywhere between utopia and extinction within as little as a century. Understandably, …
Facilitating transformative science education through futures thinking
Purpose The aims and pedagogies in the field of science education are evolving because of global sustainability crises. School science is increasingly concerned with responsible agency and value-based transformation. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to argue that perspectives and methods from the field of futures studies are needed to meet the new transformative aims of science education for sustainable development. Design/methodology/appr…
Agency and Transformative Potential of Technology in Students’ Images of the Future
Various current trends in education highlight the importance of pedagogies that address societal and environmental questions while preparing and inspiring students to take action. Meanwhile, how we view the future influences how we act, and how we act influences the future. Research on young people’s images of the future has shown how technology plays a central role in how we imagine the future and the changes that shape it. This suggests a need …
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics
Modelling roles of mathematics in physics has proved to be a difficult task, with previous models of the interplay between the two disciplines mainly focusing on mathematical modelling and problem solving. However, to convey a realistic view of physics as a field of science to our students, we need to do more than train them to become fluent in modelling and problem solving. In this article, we present a new characterisation of the roles mathemat…
Postdigital Dissensus
The adoption of new technologies often concerns a range of people across and around higher education (HE) institutions, spurring the need for various, possibly dissenting voices to be heard. This paper explores the complexity of this issue through the concept of postdigital dissensus. I examine how sociotechnical stances and discourses regarding digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) in HE relate to dissensus and lack of sociotechnical c…
Education and the Future
Education is inherently entangled with the future. This argumentative review examines this entanglement and proposes a framework differentiating between four educational orientations towards the future. The orientation ‘Futures of education’ examines how education changes in the future: From rhetorical to visionary, these futures are concerned with issues such as educational technology. ‘Education to adapt to the future’ is concerned with how edu…
Engineering (6 works) · Futures contract (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)