Anniina Kämäräinen

I work as a university lecturer in the field of special education. My areas of expertise include the topics of Qualitative research methods, Core mathematical skills and pedagogical support for learning mathematics, and Assessment for learning. Additionally, I supervise bachelor’s theses, master’s theses, and teaching practices.

Besides teaching, I work as a postdoctoral researcher on an interdisciplinary and international research project “Peer interactions involving children with autism spectrum disorder in inclusive classrooms” (PEICAS). The project aims at developing understanding and strategies for support the social participation of children on the autism spectrum in inclusive settings. We are using the combination of various research methods involving conversation analysis and multimodal interaction analysis for researching social interaction. In addition to school data, we collected a life course data including interviews and written accounts of the 33 adults on the autism spectrum.