M Lanas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 37335 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Lanas |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Lanas |
| ASSINATURA | LANAS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5563-636X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
‘Do you want to be a bully?’ Critical school textbook analysis on friendship and bullying
The aim of primary school relationship education is to enhance the safety of children’s relationships and prevent discrimination. School textbooks not only teach about bullying and friendships but also construct norms for relationships and behavior. In this study, we apply ‘concept as method’ analysis to 30 Finnish textbooks for grades 4–6, combining critical peer relationship research and Michel Foucault’s concepts. We ask: what categorizations,…
What makes bullying complicated - teachers’ perceptions of bullying-related issues in school
This paper examines what makes bullying challenging for teachers. We draw on scholarship that conceptualises bullying as a socially, culturally, and institutionally produced phenomenon, shaped by group dynamics, structural inequalities, and the material-discursive conditions of school life. The study investigates what teachers recognise as peer related challenges that fall outside the dominant psychology-driven definition of bullying. Using itera…
What’s love got to do with it? Thinking touch in education with theories of love
Love and touch are commonly considered irrelevant, soft or unprofessional topics in education. Touch has a difficult history in educational institutions across international contexts. There is a strong body of research looking into violent touch in education. In this paper, we explore touch in educational institutions through the theory of love. Taking a diffractive approach, we present three cases showing, first, how love might be lacking in mom…
In the best interest of the child
This article examines misopedy – hatred of children – in educational settings. Drawing on nine qualitative datasets, including interviews, ethnographic observations, questionnaire responses and literature, it argues that misopedy is a socially, collectively, and structurally produced system. The paper analyses discursive practices embedded in educational frameworks, showing how children are positioned as fundamentally flawed, lacking agency, and …
Relaxed and flexible - what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools
School environments in Finland are changing from traditional classrooms towards more flexible architectures. This change invites designers and commercial organizations to take part in re-thinking these environments by creating narratives of desirable educational environments. Their comprehensive furniture solutions promise flexible entities, including components that facilitate sharing and joining together. This article describes the school archi…
The production of a child in conflict in teacher education – research on available storylines
Teacher education takes part in producing childhood. This is rarely discussed in teacher education. In this study, we are interested in what kinds of positions become normalised for children and youth in the discourses in teacher education. We utilise the concepts of narrative resources and storylines, looking into the storylines in which student teachers take themselves to be in, and in the positions that are opened for pupils in these storyline…
Cultural practices, young people and the ethos of vulnerability in Finland
In this article, we delve into an examination of how the ethos of vulnerability is manifested within cultural practices related to young people in Finland, thereby shaping and determining the conditions of what is possible for the kinds of subjects that young people can become. We employed the term ‘affective subjectivation’ to elucidate the processes through which young people from diverse life situations are inclined to turn themselves into vul…
(Im)possibilities of parity of participation in school settings in the lives of unaccompanied youth
Despite the rhetoric of inclusion and equal participation, educational practices end up producing social exclusion. In this research, we are interested in practices where outcomes fail to match efforts with respect to students’ opportunities to participate equally. The research was carried out as a focused ethnography with young people who arrived in Finland as unaccompanied asylum-seeking youths. The results show that separated learning environm…
Pockets of love. Unaccompanied children in institutional care in Finland
This article discusses how needs for loving relationships are met for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. The data was collected through a focused ethnography with 13 unaccompanied children. The findings show that institutional protocols and practices fail to consider the need for love of these children, hindering their possibilities to create or maintain loving relationships. The findings also suggest that new loving ties could be …
How to be a ‘Good Asylum Seeker’? The Subjectification of Young Men Seeking Asylum
This research focuses on the subjectification of young asylum-seeking men. By subjectification, we mean the effort an individual invests in detecting, negotiating, meeting and contesting the surrounding discursive expectations. The underlying question is: if someone wants to fulfil the position ascribed to them, that is be a ‘good asylum seeker’ and respond to the surrounding demands as much as possible, what would then, in fact, be a ‘good asylu…
The discursive production of misbehaviour in professional literature
Bad student behaviour is argued to be one of the major challenges for schools today. In response to the challenge, there is a strong body of literature aiming at fixing student behaviour. In this paper, we look into professional knowledge discourses regarding ‘bad student behaviour,’ focusing on one national context, Finland, to explore how disturbing behaviour is discursively established in the professional literature for teachers seeking help w…
Confined in Waiting
This research considers the waiting and confinement experienced by young asylum seekers during and after their stay at a temporary shelter in Finland. The data for this research consists of interviews and ethnographic ‘hanging out’ with nine young asylum seekers throughout their asylum process. In order to generate new knowledge about the situated and fluid experiences of young adult asylum seekers’ confinement, this article focuses on four in-de…
Bad behaviour in school
Disturbing, problematic, or challenging student behaviour is said to be among the greatest challenges facing today’s school life. However, despite the apparent commonsensical nature of the issue, there is no commonly agreed upon definition for such events, and there is often very thin analysis of what actually becomes disturbed, challenged, or problematised in such instances. In this article, disturbing behaviour is seen as a discursive practice …
Can performing happy childhood be an occupational skill required of students
School takes part in producing childhood through its requirements for students. Becoming a student takes place in the intersections of various power-related discourses. This article explores how the idea of a proper student becomes discursively produced. It is based on how one Finnish girl's perception of herself as a proper student changed as her life circumstances changed. The article concludes by suggesting that a significant occupational skil…
An argument for love in intercultural education for teacher education
This paper proposes rethinking intercultural education in teacher education, arguing that any discussion of student teachers’ intercultural education should be connected more explicitly to a theoretical conceptualisation of love. The first part of the paper focuses on identifying discursive boundaries in engaging with intercultural education in teacher education. It is argued that if we are to develop intercultural education, we need to conscious…
Giving up the lottery ticket
Retracted Article
This article refers to:RETRACTED ARTICLE: Engaging in theoretical reflection with students in teacher education Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the Academy of Finland, projects (1) 267166 and (2) 2643070
Engaging with theoretical diffraction in teacher education
This article presents a study in which we began with a question ‘how to teach theoretical reflectivity in teacher education’, and ended with a sentence ‘there is theoretical diffraction in teacher education’. The research presented in this paper took place in the context of a university course in which we have been involved for the past two years. During the course we simultaneously aimed to teach theoretical reflection and to analyse what was ha…
Towards a Transformational Political Concept of Love in Critical Education
This has more to do with who I am than with my skills” – Student teacher subjectification in Finnish teacher education
Disaggregating Student Resistances
In this article, we look into student agency which challenges the existing structures and find that students assume such agency for a purpose: there is something they pursue instead of just resisting something. We raise some critical questions about the concept of resistance in educational thought based upon findings from two dif-ferent qualitative research projects: one in Arctic Finland; and the other in coastal Atlantic Canada. In our research…
This has more to do with who I am than with my skills” – Student teacher subjectification in Finnish teacher education
Disaggregating Student Resistances
In this article, we look into student agency which challenges the existing structures and find that students assume such agency for a purpose: there is something they pursue instead of just resisting something. We raise some critical questions about the concept of resistance in educational thought based upon findings from two dif-ferent qualitative research projects: one in Arctic Finland; and the other in coastal Atlantic Canada. In our research…
Confined in Waiting
This research considers the waiting and confinement experienced by young asylum seekers during and after their stay at a temporary shelter in Finland. The data for this research consists of interviews and ethnographic ‘hanging out’ with nine young asylum seekers throughout their asylum process. In order to generate new knowledge about the situated and fluid experiences of young adult asylum seekers’ confinement, this article focuses on four in-de…
Towards a Transformational Political Concept of Love in Critical Education
Can performing happy childhood be an occupational skill required of students
School takes part in producing childhood through its requirements for students. Becoming a student takes place in the intersections of various power-related discourses. This article explores how the idea of a proper student becomes discursively produced. It is based on how one Finnish girl's perception of herself as a proper student changed as her life circumstances changed. The article concludes by suggesting that a significant occupational skil…
An argument for love in intercultural education for teacher education
This paper proposes rethinking intercultural education in teacher education, arguing that any discussion of student teachers’ intercultural education should be connected more explicitly to a theoretical conceptualisation of love. The first part of the paper focuses on identifying discursive boundaries in engaging with intercultural education in teacher education. It is argued that if we are to develop intercultural education, we need to conscious…
Cultural practices, young people and the ethos of vulnerability in Finland
In this article, we delve into an examination of how the ethos of vulnerability is manifested within cultural practices related to young people in Finland, thereby shaping and determining the conditions of what is possible for the kinds of subjects that young people can become. We employed the term ‘affective subjectivation’ to elucidate the processes through which young people from diverse life situations are inclined to turn themselves into vul…
Bad behaviour in school
Disturbing, problematic, or challenging student behaviour is said to be among the greatest challenges facing today’s school life. However, despite the apparent commonsensical nature of the issue, there is no commonly agreed upon definition for such events, and there is often very thin analysis of what actually becomes disturbed, challenged, or problematised in such instances. In this article, disturbing behaviour is seen as a discursive practice …
Engaging with theoretical diffraction in teacher education
This article presents a study in which we began with a question ‘how to teach theoretical reflectivity in teacher education’, and ended with a sentence ‘there is theoretical diffraction in teacher education’. The research presented in this paper took place in the context of a university course in which we have been involved for the past two years. During the course we simultaneously aimed to teach theoretical reflection and to analyse what was ha…
In the best interest of the child
This article examines misopedy – hatred of children – in educational settings. Drawing on nine qualitative datasets, including interviews, ethnographic observations, questionnaire responses and literature, it argues that misopedy is a socially, collectively, and structurally produced system. The paper analyses discursive practices embedded in educational frameworks, showing how children are positioned as fundamentally flawed, lacking agency, and …
Relaxed and flexible - what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools
School environments in Finland are changing from traditional classrooms towards more flexible architectures. This change invites designers and commercial organizations to take part in re-thinking these environments by creating narratives of desirable educational environments. Their comprehensive furniture solutions promise flexible entities, including components that facilitate sharing and joining together. This article describes the school archi…
(Im)possibilities of parity of participation in school settings in the lives of unaccompanied youth
Despite the rhetoric of inclusion and equal participation, educational practices end up producing social exclusion. In this research, we are interested in practices where outcomes fail to match efforts with respect to students’ opportunities to participate equally. The research was carried out as a focused ethnography with young people who arrived in Finland as unaccompanied asylum-seeking youths. The results show that separated learning environm…
Pockets of love. Unaccompanied children in institutional care in Finland
This article discusses how needs for loving relationships are met for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. The data was collected through a focused ethnography with 13 unaccompanied children. The findings show that institutional protocols and practices fail to consider the need for love of these children, hindering their possibilities to create or maintain loving relationships. The findings also suggest that new loving ties could be …
Giving up the lottery ticket
Disaggregating Student Resistances
In this article, we look into student agency which challenges the existing structures and find that students assume such agency for a purpose: there is something they pursue instead of just resisting something. We raise some critical questions about the concept of resistance in educational thought based upon findings from two dif-ferent qualitative research projects: one in Arctic Finland; and the other in coastal Atlantic Canada. In our research…
This has more to do with who I am than with my skills” – Student teacher subjectification in Finnish teacher education
Towards a Transformational Political Concept of Love in Critical Education
An argument for love in intercultural education for teacher education
This paper proposes rethinking intercultural education in teacher education, arguing that any discussion of student teachers’ intercultural education should be connected more explicitly to a theoretical conceptualisation of love. The first part of the paper focuses on identifying discursive boundaries in engaging with intercultural education in teacher education. It is argued that if we are to develop intercultural education, we need to conscious…
Giving up the lottery ticket
Retracted Article
This article refers to:RETRACTED ARTICLE: Engaging in theoretical reflection with students in teacher education Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the Academy of Finland, projects (1) 267166 and (2) 2643070
Engaging with theoretical diffraction in teacher education
This article presents a study in which we began with a question ‘how to teach theoretical reflectivity in teacher education’, and ended with a sentence ‘there is theoretical diffraction in teacher education’. The research presented in this paper took place in the context of a university course in which we have been involved for the past two years. During the course we simultaneously aimed to teach theoretical reflection and to analyse what was ha…
Bad behaviour in school
Disturbing, problematic, or challenging student behaviour is said to be among the greatest challenges facing today’s school life. However, despite the apparent commonsensical nature of the issue, there is no commonly agreed upon definition for such events, and there is often very thin analysis of what actually becomes disturbed, challenged, or problematised in such instances. In this article, disturbing behaviour is seen as a discursive practice …
Can performing happy childhood be an occupational skill required of students
School takes part in producing childhood through its requirements for students. Becoming a student takes place in the intersections of various power-related discourses. This article explores how the idea of a proper student becomes discursively produced. It is based on how one Finnish girl's perception of herself as a proper student changed as her life circumstances changed. The article concludes by suggesting that a significant occupational skil…
The discursive production of misbehaviour in professional literature
Bad student behaviour is argued to be one of the major challenges for schools today. In response to the challenge, there is a strong body of literature aiming at fixing student behaviour. In this paper, we look into professional knowledge discourses regarding ‘bad student behaviour,’ focusing on one national context, Finland, to explore how disturbing behaviour is discursively established in the professional literature for teachers seeking help w…
Confined in Waiting
This research considers the waiting and confinement experienced by young asylum seekers during and after their stay at a temporary shelter in Finland. The data for this research consists of interviews and ethnographic ‘hanging out’ with nine young asylum seekers throughout their asylum process. In order to generate new knowledge about the situated and fluid experiences of young adult asylum seekers’ confinement, this article focuses on four in-de…
How to be a ‘Good Asylum Seeker’? The Subjectification of Young Men Seeking Asylum
This research focuses on the subjectification of young asylum-seeking men. By subjectification, we mean the effort an individual invests in detecting, negotiating, meeting and contesting the surrounding discursive expectations. The underlying question is: if someone wants to fulfil the position ascribed to them, that is be a ‘good asylum seeker’ and respond to the surrounding demands as much as possible, what would then, in fact, be a ‘good asylu…
Pockets of love. Unaccompanied children in institutional care in Finland
This article discusses how needs for loving relationships are met for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. The data was collected through a focused ethnography with 13 unaccompanied children. The findings show that institutional protocols and practices fail to consider the need for love of these children, hindering their possibilities to create or maintain loving relationships. The findings also suggest that new loving ties could be …
(Im)possibilities of parity of participation in school settings in the lives of unaccompanied youth
Despite the rhetoric of inclusion and equal participation, educational practices end up producing social exclusion. In this research, we are interested in practices where outcomes fail to match efforts with respect to students’ opportunities to participate equally. The research was carried out as a focused ethnography with young people who arrived in Finland as unaccompanied asylum-seeking youths. The results show that separated learning environm…
The production of a child in conflict in teacher education – research on available storylines
Teacher education takes part in producing childhood. This is rarely discussed in teacher education. In this study, we are interested in what kinds of positions become normalised for children and youth in the discourses in teacher education. We utilise the concepts of narrative resources and storylines, looking into the storylines in which student teachers take themselves to be in, and in the positions that are opened for pupils in these storyline…
Cultural practices, young people and the ethos of vulnerability in Finland
In this article, we delve into an examination of how the ethos of vulnerability is manifested within cultural practices related to young people in Finland, thereby shaping and determining the conditions of what is possible for the kinds of subjects that young people can become. We employed the term ‘affective subjectivation’ to elucidate the processes through which young people from diverse life situations are inclined to turn themselves into vul…
What’s love got to do with it? Thinking touch in education with theories of love
Love and touch are commonly considered irrelevant, soft or unprofessional topics in education. Touch has a difficult history in educational institutions across international contexts. There is a strong body of research looking into violent touch in education. In this paper, we explore touch in educational institutions through the theory of love. Taking a diffractive approach, we present three cases showing, first, how love might be lacking in mom…
In the best interest of the child
This article examines misopedy – hatred of children – in educational settings. Drawing on nine qualitative datasets, including interviews, ethnographic observations, questionnaire responses and literature, it argues that misopedy is a socially, collectively, and structurally produced system. The paper analyses discursive practices embedded in educational frameworks, showing how children are positioned as fundamentally flawed, lacking agency, and …
Relaxed and flexible - what (else) happens when sofas enter everyday lives of schools
School environments in Finland are changing from traditional classrooms towards more flexible architectures. This change invites designers and commercial organizations to take part in re-thinking these environments by creating narratives of desirable educational environments. Their comprehensive furniture solutions promise flexible entities, including components that facilitate sharing and joining together. This article describes the school archi…
‘Do you want to be a bully?’ Critical school textbook analysis on friendship and bullying
The aim of primary school relationship education is to enhance the safety of children’s relationships and prevent discrimination. School textbooks not only teach about bullying and friendships but also construct norms for relationships and behavior. In this study, we apply ‘concept as method’ analysis to 30 Finnish textbooks for grades 4–6, combining critical peer relationship research and Michel Foucault’s concepts. We ask: what categorizations,…
What makes bullying complicated - teachers’ perceptions of bullying-related issues in school
This paper examines what makes bullying challenging for teachers. We draw on scholarship that conceptualises bullying as a socially, culturally, and institutionally produced phenomenon, shaped by group dynamics, structural inequalities, and the material-discursive conditions of school life. The study investigates what teachers recognise as peer related challenges that fall outside the dominant psychology-driven definition of bullying. Using itera…
Sociology (16 obras) · Pedagogy (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 obras) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Ethnography (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras)