Juha Suoranta

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Juha Suoranta (born February 24, 1966, Tampere, Finland) is Finnish educational researcher, and public intellectual. He holds Professorship in Adult Education at the University of Tampere in his hometown. Previously he has worked as Professor of Education at the University of Lapland in 1997-2004, and Professor of Adult Education at the University of Joensuu in 2004-2006. He is also Adjunct Professor in Music Education (Sibelius Academy, Finland), and in Media Education (University of Tampere, Finland).

Juha Suoranta has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996-1997, and at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003-2004. In 2003 he acted as Senior Scientist in the Academy of Finland. Suoranta is a member of several Editorial Boards in educational journals. He has also served as a short-term educational expert in Tanzania, and a consultant for the United Nations' World Youth Report 2003 (http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/wyr03.htm). Academic year 2005-2006 Suoranta worked as Visiting Professor in Finnish Studies and Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

He has published extensively in the fields of education, political sociology of education, radical adult education, critical media education, and critical pedagogy. In the latter area he has collaborated with Peter McLaren, who is acknowledged as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy worldwide.

[edit] Major Works

In English

• The Integrated Media Machine I: A Theoretical Framework (Co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola, Sam Inkinen and Jari Rinne), 2000.
• The Integrated Media Machine II: Aspects of Internet Culture, Hypertechnologies, and Informal Learning (Co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola and Sam Inkinen), 2001.
• Architecture: Theory, Research, and Practice. (with Seppo Aura and Juhani Katainen), 2001.
• Children in the Information Society: The Case of Finland (with Hanna Lehtimäki), 2004. ISBN 0-8204-6829-0
• Artistic Research. Theories, Methods, and Practices (with Mika Hannula and Tere Vadén), 2005. ISBN 951-53-2743-1
• Education and the Spirit of Time. Historical, Global and Critical Reflections (co-edited with Olli-Pekka Moisio), 2006. ISBN 90-77874-17-8 http://www.sensepublishers.com/
• Havoc of Capitalism. Educating for Social and Environmental Justice (co-edited with Donna Houston, Gregory Martin & Peter McLaren), 2007 (forthcoming).
• Wikiworld. Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and Paths from Social to Socialist Media (with Tere Vadén) (forthcoming).

In Finnish

• Enlightening Education, 1997.
• Introduction to Qualitative Research (with Jari Eskola), 1998 (7th ed. 2005).
• Education in the Simulation Culture (with Mauri Ylä-Kotola), 2000.
• Edifying Adult Education (with Petri Salo), 2002.
• Education in the Media Culture. What Educators Need to Know, 2003.
• Radical Education. Towards a Political Sociology of Education, 2005.
• At the Crossroads of Adult Education (with Juha Kauppila and Hilkka Rekola), 2006.

[edit] Links

• Juha Suoranta’s blog: http://www.criticalpedagogy.blogspot.com/
• Paulo Freire Research Center–Finland http://paulofreirefinland.org/
• European Network for Alternative Thinking and Political Dialogue: http://www.transform-network.org/index.php?id=392
• General Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
• Directory of Open Access Journals in Education http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
• About open access Willinsky, John 2006: The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship ISBN 0-262-23242-1 Downloadable at http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10611