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SUMMARY:The Growing Mind - Engagement\, Emotions and Learning in Finnish S
 chools - Professor Kristi Lonka and Dr Elina Ketonen\, University of Helsi
 nki\, Finland 
DTSTART:20180502T150000Z
DTEND:20180502T170000Z
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:This seminar provides an overview of latest Finnish research o
 n academic engagement in the digitalised world. First\, new research openi
 ngs shall be introduced by Professor Kirsti Lonka. The biggest of them is 
 a national strategic project Growing Mind. Then Dr. Elina Ketonen shall pr
 esent her recent doctoral dissertation titled ‘The role of motivation an
 d academic emotions in university studies - The short- and long-term effec
 ts on situational experiences and academic achievement.’ Finally\, new m
 ethodological openings shall be presented\, namely\, measuring students’
  situational emotional experiences and physiological reactions\, sleep pat
 terns\, and use of technologies in new innovative ways. \n\nPROFILES\nKirs
 ti Lonka is professor of educational psychology at the Faculty of Educatio
 nal Sciences\, University of Helsinki\, Finland. She is also Extraordinary
  Professor\, North-West University\, South Africa and Advisory Board Membe
 r at the Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education\, National T
 aiwan University of Science and Technology.\n\nElina Ketonen is post-docto
 ral researcher in educational psychology at the Faculty of Educational Sci
 ences\, University of Helsinki\, Finland. She defended her thesis with dis
 tinction in December 2017. She has used both cross-sectional\, longitudina
 l and experience sampling datasets in her research and several statistical
  methods\, such as variable- and person-oriented approaches\, multilevel m
 odelling and most recently\, intraindividual analyses. \n\n\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road CB2 8PQ Room TBC 
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