
Jaana Kettunen- Professor
- Professor at University of Jyväskylä
Jaana Kettunen
- Professor
- Professor at University of Jyväskylä
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Introduction
Jaana is a Research Professor at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research of the University of Jyväskylä. In her work she has been focusing on the design and pedagogical use of information and communications technology (ICT) in learning and working environments. Her research focuses on the career practitioners´ ways of experiencing and conceptualizing social media in career services, and aspects that are seen as critical in the successful use of these new technologies in career services.
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October 2015 - present
January 2000 - present
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Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance
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- Co-Editor-in-Chief
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Publications (60)
This paper examines phenomenography as a viable qualitative approach in guidance and counselling research. A phenomenographic study maps the qualitatively different ways in which people experience a specific phenomenon and helps researchers to describe the aspects that make one way of experiencing a certain phenomenon qualitatively distinct from an...
New technologies and social media offer important opportunities for improving career services. However, they also create demand for new competency among career practitioners.
This study presents an overarching examination of career practitioners’ varying conceptions of social media and competency for social media in career services. Knowledge of s...
This study contends that phenomenography offers both a useful research method and practical tools for developing education and training for career practitioners. After introducing the basic principles of phenomenography, the study reviews previous research on its potential in developing pedagogical practices. It explores how the phenomenographic fi...
This article reports the findings from a phenomenographic study of career experts’ conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance settings. The results show that conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance varied from minimal, aspirational, strategic to systemic. By exploring the logical relationship between qualitatively diffe...
This article reports the findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career experts’ conceptions of innovation in career development. The results show that conceptions of innovation in career development varied from (1) initiating service, (2) developing demographic-based programmes, (3) professionalising the sector to (4) exploiting cross-...
This article presents the findings of a phenomenographic study of career practitioners’ conceptions of career management skills (CMS) at Finnish universities of applied sciences (UAS). The results demonstrate that CMS were conceived as (1) irrelevant, (2) secondary, (3) noteworthy, (4) significant and (5) indispensable. This aligns with previous ev...
I denna publikation finns kompetensbeskrivningen för professionella inom vägledning och handledning. Kompetensbeskrivningarna har utarbetats som en del av ett nationellt utvecklingsprojekt för livslång vägledningen, som samordnas av arbets- och näringsministeriet och NTM-centralernas samt AN-byråernas utvecklings- och förvaltningscenter (UF-centret...
In 2010, Sampson et al. analyzed articles published on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the field of career development spanning the years 1990 to 2009. ICT has continued to evolve, affecting clients and career practitioners. We present an updated picture of the scholarly landscape on ICT since that review, including 80...
Tässä julkaisussa kuvataan ohjausalan suomen- ja ruotsinkielisten koulutusten rakenteita ja sisältöjä Suomessa vuosina 2020–2023 sekä tarkastellaan koulutusrakenteiden toimivuutta ja kehittämistarpeita. Selvitys pohjautuu Elinikäisen ohjauksen kansallisessa strategiassa 2020–2023 (Valtioneuvosto, 2020a) esitettyyn tarpeeseen vahvistaa ohjauspalvelu...
I denna publikation finns bedömningsformulären som yrkesutbildade personer och organisationer kan använda för att bedöma sin vägledningskompetens i förhållande till Kompetensbeskrivningen (Vuorinen m.fl., 2023). Kompetensbeskrivningarna har utarbetats som en del av ett nationellt utvecklingsprojekt för livslång vägledningen, som samordnas av arbets...
This article examines the Finnish lower secondary career education system as set out in national policy and curriculum documents. Grounded in a theoretical framework informed by prior phenomenographic research on lifelong guidance systems development, the study systematically explores the alignment of Finland’s lower secondary career education syst...
This publication contains assessment forms designated to enable guidance professionals, teams, multidisciplinary networks, and organisations to assess their guidance competencies effectively. The forms are based on and complement the National Competency Framework for Career Professionals (Vuorinen, Kasurinen, Kettunen et al., 2023, 2024). The compe...
This publication contains assessment forms designated to enable guidance professionals, teams, multidisciplinary networks, and organisations to assess their guidance competencies effectively. The forms are based on and complement the National Competency Framework for Career Profes- sionals (Vuorinen, Kasurinen, Kettunen et al., 2023, 2024). Relates...
This publication is a respond to the need presented in the Finnish National Strategy for Lifelong Guidance 2020–2023 (Valtioneuvosto, 2020) to prepare national competence descriptions for the field of guidance. The publication is based on a literature review and co-creation process involving several hundred guidance professionals and experts from a...
This comprehensive, scholarly book aims to improve the integration of Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, research, and practice, leading to more cost-effective career interventions that help persons to make informed and careful career decisions over a lifetime. Edited by a team led by Dr. James P. Sampson and featuring contributions fro...
This comprehensive, scholarly book aims to improve the integration of Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, research, and practice, leading to more cost-effective career interventions that help persons to make informed and careful career decisions over a lifetime. Edited by a team led by Dr. James P. Sampson and featuring contributions fro...
This comprehensive, scholarly book aims to improve the integration of Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, research, and practice, leading to more cost-effective career interventions that help persons to make informed and careful career decisions over a lifetime. Edited by a team led by Dr. James P. Sampson and featuring contributions fro...
Tässä raportissa kuvataan Ohjaustyön osaamiskuvausten selvitys ja yhteiskehittämisprosessi -hankkeen taustoja ja etenemistä sekä avataan hankkeessa tuotettujen Ohjausalan ammattilaisten osaamiskuvausten (Vuorinen ym., 2023) sisällöllisiä perusteita ja rakennetta. Lisäksi nostetaan esiin useita eri käyttömahdollisuuksia osaamiskuvauksille ja tarkast...
Tämä julkaisu on vastaus Elinikäisen ohjauksen kansallisen strategian 2020–2023 (Valtioneuvosto, 2020a) esittämään tarpeeseen laatia kansalliset ohjausalan osaamiskuvaukset. Julkaisu perustuu kattavaan kirjallisuuskatsaukseen ja laajaan yhteiskehittämisprosessiin, johon osallistui useita satoja ohjausalan ammattilaisia ja asiantuntijoita eri puolil...
Liittyy julkaisuun: Vuorinen, R., Kasurinen, H., Kettunen, J., Kukkaneva, E. & Ruusuvirta-Uuksulainen, O. (2023). Ohjausalan ammattilaisten osaamiskuvaukset : ehdotus kansalliseksi osaamiskehykseksi. Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitos, Raportteja ja työpapereita.4. Jyväskylän yliopisto, Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitos. URN: URN:ISBN:978-951-39-9815-8 </b
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyse work experience placements in lower secondary education in Nordic countries. The article focuses on how and to what extent work experience placements in career education is formalised across the Nordic countries. It identifies similarities and differences among the countries and will provide a...
Tässä raportissa tarkastellaan kansalliseen ja kansainväliseen kirjallisuuteen pohjautuen sitä, kuin- ka yksilöiden ja ryhmien urasuunnittelutaidot vahvistuvat eri elämänvaiheissa ja konteksteissa. Lisäksi kuvataan sitä, millaisilla julkisilla ja yksityisillä palveluilla voidaan tukea urasuunnittelutaitojen kehittymistä. Urasuunnittelutaidot nähdää...
Background
This paper proposes a novel approach to the development of competence-oriented higher education, a national transformation aimed at harmonising and digitising undergraduate medical and dental education in Finland.
Methods
We apply phenomenography as a viable qualitative method for medical education research. To better understand medical...
Tässä raportissa tarkastellaan lukiokoulutuksen ja ammatillisen koulutuksen opinto-ohjauksen saatavuutta ja riittävyyttä osana elinikäisen ohjauksen jatkumoa valtioneuvoston (2020) hyväksymän elinikäisen ohjauksen strategian 2020–2023 painopistealueiden mukaisesti. Kansallisessa elinikäisen ohjauksen strategiassa 2020–2023 korostetaan, että ohjausp...
It is our great pleasure to introduce the second issue of Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance (NJTCG), a new international forum for the growing body of career research in the Nordic region.
The scope of this paper is mainly on identifying practitioner competences
relating to initial training but it acknowledges also the increasing importance of in-service training and continuous professional development. It is a contribution to a Cedefop's collection. This collection is a step towards updating Cedefop's work on professionalising caree...
Welcome to the first issue of the Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance (NJTCG), a new international forum for the growing body of research in the Nordic region.
Työelämäpedagogiikka korkeakoulutuksessa-Asiantuntijuus, toimijuus ja työelämätaidot (TYÖPEDA) oli opetus-ja kulttuuriministeriön vuosina 2018-2020 tukema korkeakoulutuksen kehittämishanke. Tähän Jyväskylän yliopiston koordinoimaan hankkeeseen osallistui 10 yliopistoa ja 6 ammattikorkeakoulua. Hankkeen avulla on vahvistettu korkeakoulutuksen työelä...
Tervetuloa tutustumaan työelämäpedagogiikan moninaisuuteen!
Tämä kirja on toteutettu opetus- ja
kulttuuriministeriön tukeman Työelämäpedagogiikka
korkeakoulutuksessa (Työpeda) -hankkeen lopputuotoksena.
Tarkoituksena on jakaa hankkeessa pilotoituja
toimintatapoja, välineitä ja malleja kaikkien korkeakoulujen
käyttöön.
Työelämäpedagogiikka on määrit...
This article reports the findings from a phenomenographic investigation into guidance counselors’ conceptions of career management skills (CMS). The results show that CMS was conceived as (a) information-based knowledge, (b) personal skills development, (c) interpersonal skills development, and (d) autonomous application of skills. The differences...
This chapter describes Finnish efforts to introduce and expand the service model known as the ‘One-Stop Guidance Centre’ as a tool for Youth Guarantee implementation. A One-Stop Guidance Centre is a physical location where a young person can access the entire service provision. Firstly, the chapter explores the levels of youth unemployment in Nordi...
The introduction to this volume discusses the importance of situating career and career guidance in context. It makes a connection to wider research and writing that challenges the idea that career theory can be global and universal and argues that there is a need for attention to local context and culture. It then moves on to set the scene for a v...
Career brings together individuals’ paths through life, learning and work. It describes how people interface with social institutions including the education system, employers, civil society and the state. Because our careers are socially and culturally embedded it matters where they are enacted. Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries e...
This chapter describes the Nordic jointly developed international course on ICT in guidance and counselling. Firstly, the rational for developing such a course is discussed. Secondly the use of research-based framework is elaborated and application of it to the curriculum development is demonstrated.
We examine the role of counselors and other practitioners in delivering career interventions using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Current benefits and limitations of ICT use provide the basis for recommendations. Potential benefits of increased ICT engagement include cost-effectiveness and improved access to resources and support....
Tiivistelmä
Muuttuvan työelämän tarpeet ohjaavat entistä painokkaammin kehittämään yhteistyötä korkeakoulutuksen ja työelämän välillä sekä vahvistamaan jatkuvan oppimisen kulttuuria. Yksilötasolla paremmat yleiset työelämätaidot avaavat uusia työllistymismahdollisuuksia ja tukevat opiskelijaa opitun soveltamisessa. Yhteiskunnan tasolla korkeakoulu...
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan korkeakoulupedagogiikkaa työelämäosaamisen vahvistamisen näkökulmasta ja luodaan katsaus korkeakoulutuksen toimintakulttuuria uudistavan Työelämäpedagogiikka korkeakoulutuksessa -hankkeen (myöhemmin TYÖPEDA) kehittämistoimenpiteiden lähtötilanteeseen: mitä on jo kehitetty tai kehitteillä. Työelämäpedagogiikalla tark...
This article reports on a phenomenographic investigation into practitioners’ conceptions of ethical practice in social networking in career services. The results show that ethical practice was conceived as stemming from: (1) an information orientation, (2) a networking orientation, (3) an educational orientation, and (4) a collaborative orientation...
This article aims to identify different ways of using mobile devices in students’ learning in higher education. This qualitative research presents the findings from a phenomenographic research of students’ conceptions of mobile learning (m-learning) in higher education. A cohort of 16 students from four universities of Bangladesh took part in semi-...
This article reports the findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career development experts’ conceptions of challenges involved in the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in career services. The results show that these challenges varied from (1) inadequate access to ICT, (2) inadequate access to informatio...
Brauer, S., Kettunen, J., & Hallikainen, V. (2018). “Learning Online” for vocational teachers - visualisation of competence-based-approach in digital open badge-driven learning. The Journal of Professional and Vocational Education: Vocational education and training in the Nordic countries, 20(2), 13-29.
URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018111317076
Vocational edu...
The use of social media expands the availability and sources of career information. However, the authorship of this information has changed from traditional print media and multimedia sources created by experts to social media–based career information created by the users themselves. Although variability in career information validity has been an i...
New technologies and social media offer important opportunities for improving career services.
However, they also create demand for new competency among career practitioners.
This study presents an overarching examination of career practitioners’ varying conceptions of
social media and competency for social media in career services. Knowledge of...
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This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network representatives’ conceptions of the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) related to national lifelong guidance policies. The role of ICT in relation to national lifelong guidance policies was conceived as (1) unexpl...
This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career practitioners’ ways of experiencing social media in career services. Focus-group interviews were conducted with 16 Danish and Finnish career practitioners with experience using social media in career services. Four qualitatively different ways of experiencing social med...
This paper synthesizes the section of country reports that has addressed the role of emerging technologies in career development and public policies. The overall aim is to identify and describe the aspects that may play important roles in relation to further developments and successful implementation of existing and emerging technologies in the car...
This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career practitioners' understanding of competency for social media in career services. Sixteen Danish and Finnish practitioners with experience using social media in career services were interviewed in focus groups. Competency for social media in career services was conceived...
Much progress has been made in integrating information and communications technology (ICT) into careers practice, but there is still room for improvement. An international lens is adopted to examine some key elements that contribute to the successful integration of ICT into careers practice. We start by exploring the role of policy, using the UK as...
This article reports the outcomes of a study, undertaken from a phenomenographic perspective, of career practitioners' conceptions of social media usage in career services. Fifteen Finnish career practitioners - representing comprehensive, secondary and higher education as well as public employment services - were interviewed in focus groups. The a...
The increasing use of technology is placing new demands on career guidance practitioners. This article examines what changes, if any, have occurred in the perceptions of guidance practitioners regarding their role and the role of the internet in meeting guidance goals and delivering career guidance services. The data were collected in focus groups...