Juha Suoranta

Juha Suoranta

Juha Suoranta (born February 24 1966, Tampere, Finland) is Finnish educational researcher, and public intellectual. He holds Professorship in Adult Education at the University of Tampere in his hometown. Previously he has worked as Professor of Education at the University of Lapland in 1997-2004, and Professor of Adult Education at the University of Joensuu in 2004-2006. He is also Adjunct Professor in Music Education (Sibelius Academy, Finland), and in media education (see: media literacy) (University of Tampere, Finland).

Juha Suoranta has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996-1997, and at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003-2004. In 2003 he acted as Senior Scientist in the Academy of Finland. Suoranta is a member of several Editorial Boards in educational journals. He has also served as a short-term educational expert in Tanzania, and a consultant and an author for the United Nations' World Youth Report 2003 [ [http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/wyr03.htm Youth at the United Nations: World Youth Report 2003 ] ] . Academic year 2005-2006 Suoranta worked as Visiting Professor in Finnish Studies and Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

He has published extensively in the fields of education, political sociology of education, radical adult education, critical media education, and critical pedagogy. In the latter area he has collaborated with Peter McLaren, who is acknowledged as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy worldwide. In his writing Suoranta has been interested in bringing together ideas and material from various disciplines including media and cultural studies, sociology, educational studies, literature studies and literature.

Suoranta is a member of Editorial Boards in several scientific journals including Scientific Journals International [ [http://www.scientificjournals.org/index.php Scientific journals and scholarly journals. Publish articles in research journals ] ] . He is also President of Finnish Educational Association Citizen's Forum SKAF. Besides English and Finnish his texts have been published in Estonian, Norwegian and Spanish.

In 2007 Suoranta founded [http://paulofreirefinland.org/ Paulo Freire Research Center–Finland] , a first Paulo Freire Center in the Nordic countries.

Major Works

In English

*"The Integrated Media Machine I: A Theoretical Framework" (Co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola, Sam Inkinen and Jari Rinne), 2000.
*"The Integrated Media Machine II: Aspects of Internet Culture, Hypertechnologies, and Informal Learning" (Co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola and Sam Inkinen), 2001.
*"Architecture: Theory, Research, and Practice". (with Seppo Aura and Juhani Katainen), 2001.
*"Children in the Information Society: The Case of Finland" (with Hanna Lehtimäki), 2004. ISBN 0-8204-6829-0
*"Artistic Research. Theories, Methods, and Practices" (with Mika Hannula and Tere Vadén), 2005. ISBN 951-53-2743-1 [http://cms.it.gu.se/infoglueDeliverWorking/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=418782&languageId=100000&contentId=-1 Contents]
*"Education and the Spirit of Time. Historical, Global and Critical Reflections" (co-edited with Olli-Pekka Moisio), 2006. ISBN 90-77874-17-8 [https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=14&products_id=79&osCsid=8cbbc935b99aac78d5f82914420d8ff5 Contents]
*"Wikiworld. Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and the Promise of Participatory Media" (with Tere Vadén), 2008. ISBN 978-951-44-7281-7 [http://wikiworld.wordpress.com/ Download]
* "Havoc of Capitalism. Educating for Social and Environmental Justice" (co-edited with Donna Houston, Gregory Martin & Peter McLaren), 2008 (forthcoming).

In Finnish

*"Enlightening Education", 1997.
*"Introduction to Qualitative Research" (with Jari Eskola), 1998 (7th ed. 2005).
*"Education in the Simulation Culture" (with Mauri Ylä-Kotola), 2000.
*"Edifying Adult Education" (with Petri Salo), 2002.
*"Education in the Media Culture. What Educators Need to Know", 2003.
*"Radical Education. Towards a Political Sociology of Education", 2005.
*"At the Crossroads of Adult Education" (with Juha Kauppila and Hilkka Rekola), 2006.

References

Links

*Juha Suoranta’s blog: http://www.criticalpedagogy.blogspot.com/
*Juha Suoranta's profile in [http://criticalpedagogyproject.mcgill.ca/drupal-5.1/ Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy] : http://criticalpedagogyproject.mcgill.ca/drupal-5.1/?q=node/231
*Paulo Freire Research Center–Finland http://paulofreirefinland.org/
*European Network for Alternative Thinking and Political Dialogue: http://www.transform-network.org/index.php?id=392
*General Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
*Directory of Open Access Journals in Education http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
*About open access Willinsky, John 2006: "The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship" ISBN 0-262-23242-1 Downloadable at http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10611


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