Kati Sormunen

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

Kati Sormunen is coordinator of Innokas Network (www.innokas.fi/en) and doctoral student at the University of Helsinki. Sormunen’s earlier experience includes professional teacher tenures in pre-school as well as in primary and secondary education. During her tenures, she has co-designed and implemented inclusive practices, such as team teaching and differentiation at the grassroots level. She has developed pedagogical approaches to computational thinking, coding and maker skills in several educational design research projects in co-operation with actors from school, university and company. Currently, Sormunen is co-developing innovation education and invention pedagogy in the University of Helsinki (Academy of Finland funded Growing Mind -project) and in Innokas Network. She has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed publications and research textbooks. Sormunen is also an active author of digital learning materials for primary education, and she has co-authored several publications for science and mathematics education.

Kati Sormunen’s professional interests lie in the broad landscape of 21st-century learning; especially with inclusive pedagogy and digitally supported learning as well as methodological issues of learning computational thinking and maker skills. She believes that teaching is an ongoing design process, and therefore education should be developed in an intensive collaboration with all actors from students to a broader community.

External positions

EU Code Week Ambassador

Oct 2018 → …

Fields of Science

516 Educational sciences

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

Publications

10 Chapter
8 Book
4 Article
2 Conference contribution
4 More

Case: Opettajat innovoivat

Sormunen, K., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Riikonen, S. & Härkki, T., 2020, Keksimisen pedagogiikka. Korhonen, T. & Kangas, K. (eds.). Jyväskylä: PS-kustannus, p. 121-128 8 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

Elementary school pupils’ co-inventions: products and pupils’ reflections on processes

Sinervo, S., Sormunen, K., Kangas, K., Hakkarainen, K., Lavonen, J., Juuti, K., Korhonen, T. & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., 18 Mar 2020, In : International Journal of Technology and Design Education. 24 p.

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

Open Access

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Maker-Centered Project-Based Learning in Inclusive Classes: Supporting Students' Active Participation with Teacher-Directed Reflective Discussions

Sormunen, K., Juuti, K. & Lavonen, J., Apr 2020, In : International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 18, 4, p. 691-712 22 p.

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

Open Access

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Ideate, evaluate and share - An Innovation Process Model for Educators

Sipilä, R., Sormunen, K. & Korhonen, T., 2019. 4 p.

Research output: Conference materials › Poster

Making with Micro:bit: Teachers and Students Learning 21st Century Competences through the Innovation Process

Korhonen, T., Salo, L. & Sormunen, K., 2019, FL2019 - Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 Conference: 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education - New York, NY, USA, March 09-10, 2019. New York, NY: ACM Digital library, p. 120-123 4 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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Projects

1 Not started
5 Active
7 Finished

EU Code Week Ambassador

Sormunen, K.

01/10/2018 → …

Project: Other project

INNOPLAY - Craft, design and technology (STEAM) in early childhood education

Kangas, K., Kallio, M., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Virta, K., Hilmola, A., Sormunen, K. & Ansolahti, A. B. L.

01/08/2018 → 31/07/2021

Project: Research project

Growing Mind: Educational transformations for facilitating sustainable personal, social, and institutional renewal at the digital age.

Hakkarainen, K., Korhonen, T., Lonka, K., Lavonen, J., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Juuti, K., Salo, L., Reinius, H. M. I. & Sormunen, K.

15/01/2018 → 31/12/2023

Project: Research project

Oppiminen ja opettaminen digitaalisissa ympäristöissä - DIGIERKO

Korhonen, T., Sormunen, K. & Salo, L.

01/01/2017 → 31/12/2020

Project: Other project

FINNABLE - Innovative school

Lavonen, J., Korhonen, T., Kukkonen, M. & Sormunen, K.

01/03/2013 → …

Project: Research project

Activities

35 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
6 Public Talks

Erasmus 3T (Time, Talent and Technology): final event in Helsinki

Kati Sormunen (Chair of organizing committee), Siri Sorella Karme (Member of organizing committee), Hanna Maria Inkeri Reinius (Member of organizing committee)

9 Feb 2019 → 11 Feb 2019