Assessing and Evaluating Early Childhood Education Systems
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Susanne Garvis is a professor of education (early childhood) and Chair of the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Her research focuses on policy, quality and learning within the field of early childhood education. She is known for her mixed methods research that has had significant impact on policy development across many countries.
Professor and vice director Heidi Harju-Luukkainen (Nord University, Norway and University of Jyväskylä, Finland) holds a Ph.D. in education, special education teacher qualification and a qualification in leadership and management from Finland. She has published more than 200 international books, journal articles and reports as well as worked in more than 30 projects globally. Harju-Luukkainen has worked at top ranked universities in the USA like UCLA, USC as well as in many Nordic research universities. She has developed education programs for universities, been a PI of PISA sub-assessments inFinland and functioned as board professional. Her research areas are early childhood education, justice in education and international student assessment.
JJonna Kangas holds an Adjunct Professor with PhD and ECEC teacher qualification. She works as senior lecturer at University of Helsinki. She researches early childhood education context in Finland and internationally with the perspectives of the voice of the children, playful learning and play-based pedagogy, early math, participatory pedagogy, curriculum studies and teacher reflective practices. She is a director of the Blended Teacher Training program for early childhood education and have developed teacher training methods and practices for developing countries.
