Jaana Pesonen Author

Fred Dervin disrupts conventional thinking about interculturality and global interaction. Based at the University of Helsinki, Finland, this celebrated interculturalist offers bold, interdisciplinary perspectives on intercultural teacher education and training. With more than 300 publications to his name, Professor Dervin empowers readers to critically rethink identity and language as well as transform how we engage interculturally.

Katariina Stenberg (Adjunct professor, PhD, MEd) is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki. Her research interests include student teachers’ professional development, teacher identity and teacher education. She also has extensive experience as a primary school teacher, having worked in both field schools and the university training school.

Sonja Anttila (PhD, MEd) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on LGBTQ families, gender and educational equality. Her scholarship challenges conventional assumptions within home economics by integrating critical gender perspectives. She has taught student teachers and in-service educators about gender diversity, supervised theses and worked as a teacher in higher education, basic education and community colleges.

Jaana Pesonen (PhD) is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki. Passionate about teacher education, her research and teaching focus on cultural studies, norm-critical pedagogies and the privatisation and marketisation of education.

Anna-Leena Riitaoja (Ph.D., Docent) is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Helsinki) and the Chair of the Diversity Council for the Una Europa Alliance. Her work critically examines how educational and social institutions can foster social justice. Drawing on critical and decolonial theories, her research interests include curriculum studies and the complexities of diversity in educational practice.