Staff Experiences
Working with international students:
"The cultural richness of the LLEES students is impressive. It is quite different to have simultaneously so many bright students from many different countries."
–Professor Erno Lehtinen
"It has been great to see how students coming from such many countries can work together and learn from each other. It is the best and deepest work experience that I have had."
–Tuire Palonen, PhD; Senior Researcher
"This is my absolute favorite group of students. They are active, ask for help, and it is very exciting to learn from them about how different educational settings they have experienced before."
-Minna Hannula PhD; Senior Researcher
Potential Benefits for Students:
"Among the professors involved in the program we have many internationally well known researchers and...we have a more prestigious group of teachers than any other educational master program in Europe... Our teaching is based on a combination of advanced theoretical thinking and practical experience."
–Prof. Lehtinen
"…this kind of expertise will be highly relevant anywhere in the world. Also…students will get very unique friends from all over the world, and learn from each other and the different cultures much more than in other programs."
-Dr. Hannula
"Getting an international perspective of education; this brings at the same time a vision of how educational systems are embedded in the different societies."
–Dr. Palonen
Anecdotes:
"Once, as I was sitting in our university restaurant, Macciavelli, I saw three LLEES students sitting together and having a conversation on some issues related to one of the courses. Once of them came from China, one from the US, and one from Russia. They were sitting and comparing eagerly their experiences in their home countries and trying to explain how they had seen the same period in these so different parts of the world. I went back in my memories to the atmosphere of the cold war period during the 70´s, and I was thinking to myself, that not everything is going in a bad direction. That was such a warm association, comparing this moment to times in the past."
-Dr. Palonen