Eliisa Vähä

I am a university teacher of history and social education. My teaching focuses especially on the pedagogy and didactics of history and social studies in both class and subject teacher training. I also lead the Teacher training development group at my department. I am conducting a doctoral study about school-based teacher educators’ perceptions of the professional roles and agency at the Finnish teacher training schools. As a teacher, I am particularly interested in the use of participatory and enlivening teaching methods, especially the possibilities of drama pedagogy in teaching history and social studies.