Johanna Sitomaniemi-San’s research while affiliated with University of Oulu and other places

A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods This edited volume is a handbook of research methodologies for the history of childhood. The history of childhood is a vibrant, multidisciplinary field that incorporates a rich variety of methodological approaches developed in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, including archaeology, education, ethnology, literature, and history. The volume presents a collection of chapters that engage a range of different research traditions and employ different research material, conceptual tools, and methods of analysis for the historical study of childhood. In doing so, the volume attends to issues specific to the study of children and childhood, such as those related to research ethics and the theoretical complexities of defining ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’. While the central focus is on the history of childhood in Finland, the volume also includes international and transnational cases, contexts, and perspectives.

Introduction to the edited volume "Matkaopas lapsuuden historian tutkimukseen. Monitieteisiä näkökulmia ja menetelmiä" (A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods)(SKS, Helsinki 2022). The edited volume is the first handbook of research methodologies for studying history of childhood published in Finnish. The introduction introduces readers to the vibrant, multidisciplinary field that incorporates a rich variety of methodological approaches. The handbook is multidisciplinary, involving disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, including archaeology, education, ethnology, literature, sociology, and history. The volume presents a collection of chapters that engage a range of different research traditions and employ different research materials, conceptual tools, and methods of analysis. In doing so, the volume attends to issues specific to the study of children and childhood, such as those related to research ethics and the theoretical complexities of defining "the child" and "childhood". While the central focus is on the history of childhood in Finland, the volume also includes international and transnational cases, contexts, and perspectives. The Edited volume is available Open Access (free of charge, full text): https://doi.org/10.21435/ht.288 Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.fi.

Este artículo reexamina una premisa que se sostiene comúnmente en relación con el efecto de la formación, científica y basada en la investigación, del profesorado en Finlandia, la cual emergió en la década de 1970. La premisa es que este nuevo tipo de formación produce un profesorado que es dirigido o disciplinado a través de la ciencia. En el centro se encuentra la manera en que construcciones históricamente específicas de «ciencia» alimentan las formas en las que el profesorado es concebido, fabricado y gobernado. En un esfuerzo por desestabilizar lo obvio de la «investigación» en la formación del profesorado en Finlandia, se piensa con la noción de alquimia elaborada por Popkewitz para analizar la racionalidad a través de la que se trabaja el ser docente. El análisis saca a relucir y explora detenidamente una conexión no reconocida previamente entre los tópicos de la «personalidad docente» y de la «ciencia-investigación», remitiendo a que la forma especulativo-vocacional no tiene por qué haber sido desplazada ni reemplazada necesariamente por la «nueva» forma científico-profesional de formar al profesorado.