J Suoranta
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 46793 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Suoranta |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Suoranta |
| ASSINATURA | SUORANTA J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5206-0115 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Preconfiguring Postdigital Futures
Postdigital Imaginations as Emancipatory Practices
Koulutus digitalisaation vallassa
Suomalaisen korkeakoulutuspolitiikan tehtävälistalla on pitkään ollut taloudellisen kasvun ja tuottavuuden tavoitteet. Perinteisesti niitä on pyritty edistämään korkeakoulujen rakenteellisella kehittämisellä. Tämän ”korkeakoulutuksen tehostamisdoktriinin” keinovalikoimaan on sittemmin sisällytetty myös korkeakoulutuksen digitalisaatio. Sen myötä tehokkuusdoktriinin painopiste on siirtynyt koulutuksen rakenteista opiskelijan henkisten kapasiteetti…
Postdigital Citizen Science and Humanities
This collective article presents a theoretical kaleidoscope, the multiple lenses of which are used to examine and critique citizen science and humanities in postdigital contexts and from postdigital perspectives. It brings together 19 short theoretical and experiential contributions, organised into six loose groups which explore areas and perspectives including Indigenous and local knowledge, technology, and children and young people as citizen r…
Is There a Place for Popular Adult Education in the Managerial University
This article studies the possibilities of reclaiming and revitalising popular adult education in Finland’s neoliberally driven managerial university and addresses the place for popular adult education in it. In Finland, popular adult education has been taught at a university level since the 1920s. Currently, it has a marginal position in academia. This descriptive case study ponders the role of teaching popular adult education in Finnish universi…
Speculative Social Science Fiction of Digitalization in Higher Education
Digitalization and datafication are reshaping roles and practices in higher education. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this process through the massive increase in the use of educational technology (EdTech) (Teräs et al. 2020). As a part of this development, higher education is becoming increasingly data driven. Simultaneously, attempts to predict and prepare for future scenarios in education are driven by intergovernmental organization rep…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching
This article is a collective response to the 2020 iteration of The Manifesto for Teaching Online . Originally published in 2011 as 20 simple but provocative statements, the aim was, and continues to be, to critically challenge the normalization of education as techno-corporate enterprise and the failure to properly account for digital methods in teaching in Higher Education. The 2020 Manifesto continues in the same critically provocative fashion,…
‘Universal Suicidal Folly’ or Eliminating Human Suffering
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization
Although digitalization has become an everyday phenomenon in higher education (HE), there is still limited understanding on how HE teachers experience the digitalized work environment. In this article we utilize narrative research methodology to share HE teachers’ voices, addressing the following questions: What is the lived experience of being a teacher in digitalizing higher education? How has digitalization shaped the work environment in highe…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
Inventing Militant Scholarship for Political and Intellectual Emancipation
In this response to Mirka Koro’s article “Speculative Experimentation in (Methodological) Pluriverse,” I emphasize the need for militant scholarship as a methodological counterforce for the far-right populist and Manichean rhetorics and the ruthless economic order against the oppressed. We should not accept these provocations face value, but as militant scholars learn to conceptualize them as ideologies. As militants, we aim to overcome neolibera…
Reinventing Paulo Freire’s pedagogy in Finnish non-formal education
The article contributes to the academic discussion on Paulo Freire’s pedagogical thinking as a basis for reinventing contemporary non-formal education. In Finland, Freire’s transformational/liberatory theory of adult learning was applied as a framework for developing an adult educational model called Life Skills for All. The pilot project’s case studies were carried out with different groups of people during the model’s development phase. We desc…
Freire Na Finlândia
Neste artigo, nos perguntamos se o pensamento de Paulo Freire teve alguma influência na Finlândia. Existe uma tradição reconhecido da pedagogia freiriana neste país nórdico? Para responder a esta pergunta, traçamos a trajetória do recepção do pensamento de Freire nas últimas décadas. Concluímos finalmente que embora seu impacto direto não tenha se generalizado, houveram múltiplas e importantes conexões e repercussões. Em termos gerais, vale a pen…
Lecture as an Event in Postdigital Education
In this experimental text, we reflect in the form of a dyadic teaching diary upon a course we recently taught together on the ‘sociological imagination’. One of the main aims we set for the class was to ponder how the social scientific imagination could be enriched, and figure out ways to stress its social and political relevance. From the pedagogical point of view, we wanted to create a course which would disrupt the students’ oft-criticized rou…
The Covid-19 World
The Method of Empathy-Based Stories as a Tool for Research and Teaching
In this article we describe a qualitative research method, the “Method of Empathy-Based Stories” (MEBS) and ponder its value in classroom teaching. Our research question is as follows: What is MEBS and what are its possible uses in research and teaching? We gathered empathy-based stories written by students (N = 15) and analysed them with thematic analysis. The dominating themes in writings were the threat of climate change and various coping str…
Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology 'Solutionism
The Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing that followed have affected all walks of society, also education. In order to keep education running, educational institutions have had to quickly adapt to the situation. This has resulted in an unprecedented push to online learning. Many, including commercial digital learning platform providers, have rushed to provide their support and 'solutions', sometimes for free. The Covid-19 pandemic has ther…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Postdigital science and education
trans-, and postdisciplines between them (Berry and Dieter, 2015). Through this research, the term postdigital is slowly entering academic discourse
Postdigital Dialogue
The Silenced Students
A silenced student merely receives pedagogical messages, consumes educational goods, and is supposed to obey taken-for-granted orders of the university. In this article, we illustrate how silencing happens as a consequence of a structural change in the balance of power between the Finnish government and the universities. The universities try to play safe due to the increased directive power of the government. This has had effects on how universit…
Against the Corporate Culture Ideology
Learning in and with an open wiki project
There is a chance that Wikiversity will become the Internet's free university just as Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia on the Internet. The building of an educational entity demands considering a number of philosophical and practical questions such as pedagogy and organization. In this paper we will address some of these, starting by introducing several earlier approaches and ideas related to wikis' potential for education. We continue by prese…
A definition and criticism of cybercommunism
When Žižek (2002b) defines his idea of cybercommunism using an adaptation of the Leninist formula 'Socialism = free access to internet + the power of the soviets', he omits the crucial part about electricity. The cybercommunist idea that the information society is more 'spectral' and 'malleable' than were the previous 'crudely' economical societies conceals the question of what types of communities it favours. The political economy of cybercommun…
Postdigital science and education
trans-, and postdisciplines between them (Berry and Dieter, 2015). Through this research, the term postdigital is slowly entering academic discourse
Postdigital Dialogue
Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology 'Solutionism
The Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing that followed have affected all walks of society, also education. In order to keep education running, educational institutions have had to quickly adapt to the situation. This has resulted in an unprecedented push to online learning. Many, including commercial digital learning platform providers, have rushed to provide their support and 'solutions', sometimes for free. The Covid-19 pandemic has ther…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Reinventing Paulo Freire’s pedagogy in Finnish non-formal education
The article contributes to the academic discussion on Paulo Freire’s pedagogical thinking as a basis for reinventing contemporary non-formal education. In Finland, Freire’s transformational/liberatory theory of adult learning was applied as a framework for developing an adult educational model called Life Skills for All. The pilot project’s case studies were carried out with different groups of people during the model’s development phase. We desc…
The Method of Empathy-Based Stories as a Tool for Research and Teaching
In this article we describe a qualitative research method, the “Method of Empathy-Based Stories” (MEBS) and ponder its value in classroom teaching. Our research question is as follows: What is MEBS and what are its possible uses in research and teaching? We gathered empathy-based stories written by students (N = 15) and analysed them with thematic analysis. The dominating themes in writings were the threat of climate change and various coping str…
The Silenced Students
A silenced student merely receives pedagogical messages, consumes educational goods, and is supposed to obey taken-for-granted orders of the university. In this article, we illustrate how silencing happens as a consequence of a structural change in the balance of power between the Finnish government and the universities. The universities try to play safe due to the increased directive power of the government. This has had effects on how universit…
A definition and criticism of cybercommunism
When Žižek (2002b) defines his idea of cybercommunism using an adaptation of the Leninist formula 'Socialism = free access to internet + the power of the soviets', he omits the crucial part about electricity. The cybercommunist idea that the information society is more 'spectral' and 'malleable' than were the previous 'crudely' economical societies conceals the question of what types of communities it favours. The political economy of cybercommun…
Against the Corporate Culture Ideology
Teaching Sociology
In this article I argue that pedagogical reform is needed in the current Westernized teaching of sociology to create a new, more equal, humane and ecologically sound world. Present teaching methods encourage instrumental approaches to studying and learning. As a result, students seem to have grown indifferent to learning, becoming mere reflections of their study environment. In confronting the needed pedagogical reform, I focus on the smallest pa…
Narrating the good life
At present, the Western world is characterized by several profound crises which have meant many redefinitions of people's lifeworlds. If the crises are not a question of material reproduction but of cultural reproduction, it is imperative to know how people interpret their ordinary lives and what their conceptions of the good life are. In this article the question of the good life is dealt with from two different perspectives. The first source of…
Narrating the good life
At present, the Western world is characterized by several profound crises which have meant many redefinitions of people's lifeworlds. If the crises are not a question of material reproduction but of cultural reproduction, it is imperative to know how people interpret their ordinary lives and what their conceptions of the good life are. In this article the question of the good life is dealt with from two different perspectives. The first source of…
From Gothenburg to Everywhere
Learn the simplest things. For you Whose time has come. It is never too late! - Bertolt Brecht, "Praise of Learning" Living social reality is always faster than any attempt to document it. Documentation will always remain inevitably partial
Education and the Spirit of Time
The aim of this book is to raise current social, political, and moral issues in social theory by taking a critical stance towards historical, global, and educational themes in the context of culture, politics, and technology. All the contributors have written their texts in the spirit of critical Zeitgeist analysis, which, they believe, is a highly needed genre in social theory. Thus the focus of the book is critical Zeitgeist analysis, and its p…
Teaching Sociology
In this article I argue that pedagogical reform is needed in the current Westernized teaching of sociology to create a new, more equal, humane and ecologically sound world. Present teaching methods encourage instrumental approaches to studying and learning. As a result, students seem to have grown indifferent to learning, becoming mere reflections of their study environment. In confronting the needed pedagogical reform, I focus on the smallest pa…
Learning in and with an open wiki project
There is a chance that Wikiversity will become the Internet's free university just as Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia on the Internet. The building of an educational entity demands considering a number of philosophical and practical questions such as pedagogy and organization. In this paper we will address some of these, starting by introducing several earlier approaches and ideas related to wikis' potential for education. We continue by prese…
A definition and criticism of cybercommunism
When Žižek (2002b) defines his idea of cybercommunism using an adaptation of the Leninist formula 'Socialism = free access to internet + the power of the soviets', he omits the crucial part about electricity. The cybercommunist idea that the information society is more 'spectral' and 'malleable' than were the previous 'crudely' economical societies conceals the question of what types of communities it favours. The political economy of cybercommun…
Against the Corporate Culture Ideology
The Silenced Students
A silenced student merely receives pedagogical messages, consumes educational goods, and is supposed to obey taken-for-granted orders of the university. In this article, we illustrate how silencing happens as a consequence of a structural change in the balance of power between the Finnish government and the universities. The universities try to play safe due to the increased directive power of the government. This has had effects on how universit…
Postdigital science and education
trans-, and postdisciplines between them (Berry and Dieter, 2015). Through this research, the term postdigital is slowly entering academic discourse
Postdigital Dialogue
Lecture as an Event in Postdigital Education
In this experimental text, we reflect in the form of a dyadic teaching diary upon a course we recently taught together on the ‘sociological imagination’. One of the main aims we set for the class was to ponder how the social scientific imagination could be enriched, and figure out ways to stress its social and political relevance. From the pedagogical point of view, we wanted to create a course which would disrupt the students’ oft-criticized rou…
The Covid-19 World
The Method of Empathy-Based Stories as a Tool for Research and Teaching
In this article we describe a qualitative research method, the “Method of Empathy-Based Stories” (MEBS) and ponder its value in classroom teaching. Our research question is as follows: What is MEBS and what are its possible uses in research and teaching? We gathered empathy-based stories written by students (N = 15) and analysed them with thematic analysis. The dominating themes in writings were the threat of climate change and various coping str…
Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology 'Solutionism
The Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing that followed have affected all walks of society, also education. In order to keep education running, educational institutions have had to quickly adapt to the situation. This has resulted in an unprecedented push to online learning. Many, including commercial digital learning platform providers, have rushed to provide their support and 'solutions', sometimes for free. The Covid-19 pandemic has ther…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
Inventing Militant Scholarship for Political and Intellectual Emancipation
In this response to Mirka Koro’s article “Speculative Experimentation in (Methodological) Pluriverse,” I emphasize the need for militant scholarship as a methodological counterforce for the far-right populist and Manichean rhetorics and the ruthless economic order against the oppressed. We should not accept these provocations face value, but as militant scholars learn to conceptualize them as ideologies. As militants, we aim to overcome neolibera…
Reinventing Paulo Freire’s pedagogy in Finnish non-formal education
The article contributes to the academic discussion on Paulo Freire’s pedagogical thinking as a basis for reinventing contemporary non-formal education. In Finland, Freire’s transformational/liberatory theory of adult learning was applied as a framework for developing an adult educational model called Life Skills for All. The pilot project’s case studies were carried out with different groups of people during the model’s development phase. We desc…
Freire Na Finlândia
Neste artigo, nos perguntamos se o pensamento de Paulo Freire teve alguma influência na Finlândia. Existe uma tradição reconhecido da pedagogia freiriana neste país nórdico? Para responder a esta pergunta, traçamos a trajetória do recepção do pensamento de Freire nas últimas décadas. Concluímos finalmente que embora seu impacto direto não tenha se generalizado, houveram múltiplas e importantes conexões e repercussões. Em termos gerais, vale a pen…
Speculative Social Science Fiction of Digitalization in Higher Education
Digitalization and datafication are reshaping roles and practices in higher education. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this process through the massive increase in the use of educational technology (EdTech) (Teräs et al. 2020). As a part of this development, higher education is becoming increasingly data driven. Simultaneously, attempts to predict and prepare for future scenarios in education are driven by intergovernmental organization rep…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching
This article is a collective response to the 2020 iteration of The Manifesto for Teaching Online . Originally published in 2011 as 20 simple but provocative statements, the aim was, and continues to be, to critically challenge the normalization of education as techno-corporate enterprise and the failure to properly account for digital methods in teaching in Higher Education. The 2020 Manifesto continues in the same critically provocative fashion,…
‘Universal Suicidal Folly’ or Eliminating Human Suffering
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization
Although digitalization has become an everyday phenomenon in higher education (HE), there is still limited understanding on how HE teachers experience the digitalized work environment. In this article we utilize narrative research methodology to share HE teachers’ voices, addressing the following questions: What is the lived experience of being a teacher in digitalizing higher education? How has digitalization shaped the work environment in highe…
Is There a Place for Popular Adult Education in the Managerial University
This article studies the possibilities of reclaiming and revitalising popular adult education in Finland’s neoliberally driven managerial university and addresses the place for popular adult education in it. In Finland, popular adult education has been taught at a university level since the 1920s. Currently, it has a marginal position in academia. This descriptive case study ponders the role of teaching popular adult education in Finnish universi…
Sociology (19 obras) · Digital Education and Society (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Pedagogy (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras)