Jari Lavonen

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

Dr. Jari Lavonen is a Professor of Physics and Chemistry Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is a director of National Teacher Education Forum and member of the steering committee of the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre. He is a visiting professor at the Michigan State University and University of Johannesburg. He has been researching science and technology education and teacher education for the last 31 years and his main research interests are science and technology teaching and learning, curriculum development, teacher education and use of ICT in education. He has published altogether 150 refereed scientific papers in journals and books, 140 other articles and 160 books for either science teacher education or for science education. He has been active in international consulting, for example, involving the renewal of teacher education for example in Norway, Peru and South Africa.

Fields of Science

516 Educational sciences
Science education
Motivation
curriculum research

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications 1984 2019

21st century competencies in the Chinese science curriculum

Wang, Y., Lavonen, J. M. J. & Tirri, K. A. H., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Nordic-Chinese Intersections on Education . Du, X. Y., Liu, H. Q., Jensen, A. A. & Dervin, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan

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A comparison of student teacher learning from practice in university-affiliated schools in Helsinki and Johannesburg

Lavonen, J., Henning, E., Petersen, N., Loukomies, A. & Myllyviita, A., 1 Jan 2019, In : European Journal of Teacher Education. 42, 1, p. 4-18 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Adopting ideas from current Nordic teacher education strategies to initial science teacher education

Lavonen, J., 2019, In : Journal of Baltic Science Education. 18, 4, p. 488-489 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Scientific

Open Access

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An Assessment of How Scientific Literacy-Related Aims Are Actualised in the National Primary Science Curricula in China and Finland

Wang, Y., Lavonen, J. & Tirri, K., 1 May 2019, In : International Journal of Science Education. 41, 11, p. 1435-1456 22 p.

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An international collaborative investigation of beginning seventh grade students' understandings of scientific inquiry: Establishing a baseline

Lederman, J., Lederman, N., Bartels, S., Jimenez, J., Akubo, M., Aly, S., Bao, C., Blanquet, E., Blonder, R., Soares de Andrade, M. B., Buntting, C., Cakir, M., EL-Deghaidy, H., ElZorkani, A., Gaigher, E., Guo, S., Hakanen, A., Hamed Al-Lal, S., Han-Tosunoglu, C., Hattingh, A. & 30 othersHume, A., Irez, S., Kay, G., Kivilcan Dogan, O., Kremer, K., Kuo, P-C., Lavonen, J., Lin, S-F., Liu, C., Liu, E., Liu, S-Y., Lv, B., Mamlok-Naaman, R., McDonald, C., Neumann, I., Pan, Y., Picholle, E., Rivero Garcia, A., Rundgren, C-J., Santibanez-Gomez, D., Saunders, K., Schwartz, R., Voitle, F., von Gyllenpalm, J., Wei, F., Wishart, J., Wu, Z., Xiao, H., Yalaki, Y. & Zhou, Q., Apr 2019, In : Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 56, 4, p. 486-515 30 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review