Вивитсу Марианна

Marianna is postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, and works as project planner for the project OLIVE-Teacher Education Without Walls. Her research focus is on hybrid pedagogies, sustainability education and transformative learning. She is interested in policies and practices for sustainable university future-oriented hybrid pedagogies and the imaginaries that emerge with the use of digital technologies in learning. Marianna's work draws from the theory of narratology, metaphor theory, the new materialist thinking and feminist studies and develops audio-visual storytelling and visual ethnographic methods for research and teaching.

Her research interests include:

Audio-visual, multimodal narrative methods

Qualitative research methods, activist researher's perspectives & narratives

Hybrid web-based pedagogies, new materialisms, feminist theories

Sustainability & transformative learning

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Main theoretical bases:

Metaphor theory (conceptual & contemporary & linguistic)

Narrative theory (P. Ricoeur's critical theory)

Critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur's approach)