Professor Leesa Wheelahan PhD
William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Leesa Wheelahan is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she holds the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She was previously an associate professor in adult and vocational education at the University of Melbourne. She is a past editor of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training. Her research interests focus on the role of theoretical knowledge in qualifications; pathways between the sectors of tertiary education and between tertiary education and the labour market; relations between colleges and universities; and tertiary education policy. In recent years, her research has focused on baccalaureate degrees in colleges; marketisation and privatisation in vocational education and in the college sector; and the role that colleges play in society and in their communities.
Jón Torfi Jónasson
Professor Emeritus and former dean at the School of Education at the University of Iceland
Jón Torfi Jónasson is a professor emeritus and former dean at the School of Education at the University of Iceland. His teaching and research have covered many areas and all levels within the field of education, but with focus on upper secondary and tertiary education. In recent years he has critically examined how the education edifice has developed (or not) and addressed how the various arenas of education attend to the future (or not). In recent years he has also been engaged with the municipalities and the teacher union related to projects aiming at raising the professional voice of teachers.
Dr Katja Vähäsantanen
Principal research scientist at the Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK, in Finland) Edu Research Unit and a teacher at the School of Professional Teacher Education
At Häme University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Dr Katja Vähäsantanen is a principal research scientist at the HAMK Edu Research Unit and a teacher at the School of Professional Teacher Education. She is also an adjunct professor in the area of working life research and development. Her main areas of expertise are professional identity, agency, learning and emotions in work and education, with a further interest in different methodological approaches and their applicability to the investigation of professional learning. She has also worked with organisations to design, develop and implement agentic learning and leadership interventions. Katja Vähäsantanen has long been interested in research on teachers and student teachers. Her current development interests are related to professional teacher education and her research projects relate to student teachers' motivations to become teachers and their commitment to teaching in VET, as well as to VET teachers' agency, competence and social networks in education and working life.
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