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Tanja Taivalantti works as a University Instructor in History and Social Science Education. She is finalising her dissertation on the historical narratives and identities of Finnish speaking young people. In her research, Taivalantti focuses on the relationship between history education and the identity construction process of young people. She is involved in the Youth and History research project, which is a comparative European survey on historical consciousness and political attitudes among adolescents. Taivalantti has also taught history and social science and supervised teacher trainees at the Helsinki Normal Lyceum, the teacher training school of the University of Helsinki.