Jaakko Kauko
About me
I am Professor of Education Policy at Faculty of Education and Culture. Together with Nelli Piattoeva, we lead the reserch group focusing on the Knowledge, Power, and Politics in Education (EduKnow).
My core idea for research is to analyse dynamics in politics, the ways in which political action is always tied to longer term socio-historical developments, constrained or enabled through institutional rearrangements, and actors are both entangled in and empowered by the dynamics that develop in these conditions.
Thematically I have focused on quality and evaluation in education and the use of knowledge and power in policymaking and its networks.
The research contexts for these phenomena have varied: Brazil, Chile, China, England, Finland, the Nordic countries, and Portugal.
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Selected publications
Recent open access publications:
Kauko, J. (2019). The Finnish Comprehensive School: Conflicts, Compromises, and Institutional Robustness. In Paul t’ Hart & Mallory E. Compton (Eds.) Great Policy Successes: How Governments Get it Right in a Big Way at Least Some of the Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 122-142.
Kauko, J., Rinne R. & Takala, T. (Eds.) (2018) Politics of Quality in Education: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China, and Russia . London: Routledge.
Dovemark, M., Kosunen, S., Kauko, J., Magnúsdóttir, B., Hansen, P. & Rasmussen, P. (2018). Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education: social changes reflected in schooling . Education Inquiry 9(1), 122-141.
Kauko, J. & Wermke, W. (2018). The contingent sense-making of contingency: epistemologies of change in comparative education . Comparative Education Review, 62(2), 157–177.
Complete list of publications from 2016 onwards is stored in Research portal of Tampere University, and publications before 2016 are listed onthe University of Helsinki webpage.
Latest publications
Assessment and Evaluation: Between Global Convergence and Local Specificity
Piattoeva, N., Kauko, J., Pitkänen, H. & Wallenius, T., 2023, Policy Foundations of Education. Wilkins, A. (ed.). p. 141-164 (Educational Foundations; vol. 4).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Education Policy in Finland: Varying Approaches for Addressing Injustices
Paananen, M., Kauko, J. & Volmari, S., 2023, Finnish Public Administration: Nordic Public Space and Agency. Pekkola, E., Johanson, J-E. & Mykkänen, M. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 231-248 (Governance and Public Management).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Finland’s Famous Education System: Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling
Thrupp, M. (ed.), Seppänen, P. (ed.), Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S., 2023, Springer. 466 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Scientific › peer-review
Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture in the Light of Its Working Groups
Kallunki, J., Kauko, J. & Pizmony-Levy, O., 2023, Finland’s Famous Education System: Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling. Thrupp, M., Seppänen, P., Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S. (eds.). Springer, p. 35-50 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Introduction
Thrupp, M., Seppänen, P., Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S., 2023, Finland’s Famous Education System: Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling. Thrupp, M., Seppänen, P., Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S. (eds.). Springer, p. 1-16Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Preface and Acknowledgements
Thrupp, M., Seppänen, P., Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S., 2023, Finland’s Famous Education System: Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling. Thrupp, M., Seppänen, P., Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S. (eds.). Springer, p. v-vii 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
The Foundations of Critical Studies in Education in Finland
Kosunen, S., Kauko, J., Seppänen, P. & Thrupp, M., 2023, Finland’s Famous Education System: Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling. Thrupp, M., Seppänen, P., Kauko, J. & Kosunen, S. (eds.). Springer, p. 453-466 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Evidence and Expert Power in Finnish Education Policy Making: The National Core Curriculum Reform
Volmari, S., Kauko, J., Anturaniemi, J. & Santos, Í., 2022, Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy: A Comparative Network Analysis. Karseth, B., Sivesind, K. & Steiner-Khamsi, G. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 115-148Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Externalisations in the Portuguese parliament : analysing power struggles and (de-)legitimation with Multiple Streams Approach
Santos, Í. & Kauko, J., 2022, In: JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY. 22, 3, p. 399-418Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Global politics of quality in education
Kauko, J., 2022, International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition). Tierney, R. J., Rizvi, F. & Erkican, K. (eds.). Elsevier, p. 49-53Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › Scientific › peer-review