Yhtenäisempi peruskoulu. Rohkeita ja kestäviä ratkaisuja yhtenäiskoulun kehittämiseen (pehmeäkantinen)

ISBN: 978-952-7401-18-7
Tuotemuoto: Pehmeäkantinen
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Sivuja: 225

Peter Johnson, Ed.D., completed his doctoral dissertation in 2006 on the development of comprehensive basic education within a municipal school organization. Johnson worked in Kokkola as a class teacher for 10 years and as principal of Torkinmäki School for 17 years. From 2008 to 2020, he served as Director of Education for the City of Kokkola. Since then, he has worked as a leading expert in his company, Licence to Learn.
Since 2000, Johnson has been active as a trainer, auditor, mentor, and coach in the field of education and cultural services. He has authored numerous educational science articles as well as professional literature and reports in the field. Since 2021, he has served as chair of the editorial board for the Pore publications of the OPPIVA network.
His fields of interest include sociology of education, educational leadership, collaboration, action research, and sustainable development in education. He has been a speaker at numerous domestic and international seminars and conferences in Europe, the United States, and Australia.
Peter Johnson was Vice Chair of the Finnish Principals’ Association from 2004 to 2006 and Chair from 2007 to 2009. He also served as Vice Chair of Opsia – The Association of Directors and Experts in Education from 2016 to 2022. He received the Direction of Education award in 2015 and the honorary title of Counselor of Education in 2017.

Kimmo Tanttu, M.Ed., class teacher and subject teacher, has served as a principal for 36 years, 21 of which in comprehensive schools.

For more than 20 years, through his sole proprietorship KTConsultation, he has trained principals and staff of comprehensive schools. He has also carried out school network studies and other assignments related to comprehensive schools.

He has trained the staff of more than 200 comprehensive schools in comprehensive school pedagogy, the theoretical foundation of which he has helped develop over the years. In the 1990s, he designed Anttola Comprehensive School in Mikkeli, which became the first school project in Finland to be pedagogically implemented as a comprehensive school.

He served as Chair of the Finnish Comprehensive School Network Association (Suomen yhtenäiskouluverkosto SYVE ry) from 2004 to 2015, and as Chair of the South Savo Principals from 2018 to 2021. In 2016, he received the Finnish Teachers’ Union (OAJ) Award of Recognition as Education Influencer of the Year.

Kimmo has authored several publications over the years, including Johnson, Tanttu, Heikkinen & Maunumäki: A More Coherent Comprehensive School (Professional Publishing Finland, 2024) and Johnson & Tanttu: Sustainable Solutions for Schools (PS-kustannus, 2008).

Mari Heikkinen, M.Ed., graduated as a class teacher and special education teacher. She worked as a class teacher in Helsinki at Suutarila and Töyrynummi primary schools from 1997 to 1999, at Seutula School in Vantaa from 2000 to 2002, and as a class teacher, special class teacher, and special education teacher at Savio School in Kerava from 2002 to 2010. From 2007 to 2010, she also served as Coordinator of Special Education. She was principal of Savio School from 2010 to 2018 and Director of Support for Growth and Learning in Kerava from 2018 to 2019. Since 2019, she has been principal of Porolahti Comprehensive School in Helsinki.

Heikkinen is particularly interested in wellbeing in schools and the development of inclusive education. In her career, she has developed models and structures for student welfare, multi-professional cooperation, and inclusive school and learning support. She is also interested in themes such as learning communities, distributed leadership, collaboration, and coherent school pathways. She served as one of three pedagogical planners for the design of Keravajoki Comprehensive School and Päivölänlaakso School.

Mari Heikkinen has contributed as an author to the Finnish language and literature textbook series Vipunen. She has also served on the board of the Uusimaa Principals’ Association since 2012.

Hanna Maunumäki, M.Ed., is a dual-qualified class teacher and Finnish language teacher. She worked as a class teacher in Kokkola for three years and has served as principal of Torkinmäki School since 2008.
Torkinmäki School functions as the teacher training school for class teacher education at the University Consortium of Chydenius in Kokkola. In connection with her role as principal, Maunumäki has been involved for 15 years in supervising, managing, and developing teaching practice as well as in student admissions.
She took part in the negotiation and planning processes for the lifecycle procurement of Torkinmäki School and daycare center, preparing among other things the pedagogical plan together with the staff as well as the criteria for evaluating the quality of design solutions. The new daycare center and comprehensive school building, implemented as a lifecycle project, was completed in 2017.
Her international experience includes school collaboration projects with the United States and Lithuania. Maunumäki is particularly interested in the development of co-teaching, comprehensive school pedagogy, educational leadership, and pedagogy-based school building design. Together with a colleague, she has developed models for comprehensive school pedagogy and joint leadership of schools and daycare centers.