Jennifer Maria Luoto

• Klette, Kirsti; Blikstad-Balas, Marte; Luoto, Jennifer Maria; Tanner, Marie; Tengberg, Michael; Slotte, Anna; Roe, Astrid & Sahlström, Fritjof (2018). Justice through participation: student engagement in Nordic classrooms. Education Inquiry.  ISSN 2000-4508.  9(1), s 57- 77 . doi: 10.1080/20004508.2018.1428036 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  In this article, we approach large questions regarding justice and equality in the Nordic classrooms. A substantial body of previous research emphasises the importance of student engagement in teaching and learning. Drawing on video data from Norway, Sweden and Finland, we focus on whole-class teaching, i.e. situations in which the teacher addresses the class from the front of the classroom, to investigate justice trough participation. We have approached our topic through two concerns: student participation in classroom discourse and student engagement as providing access to content. Our findings seem to pose some serious challenges for the Nordic welfare society vision of classrooms as core societal hubs for justice and equality. While whole-class teaching is one of the primary tools available for attempting to achieve justice and equality for all, this interaction format seems to contain inherent constraints that do not support equitable student engagement. Further, the way the Nordic classrooms have responded so far to the massive digitisation in their societies seems to pose serious questions rather than provide comforting answers.

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• Luoto, Jennifer Maria (2018). Symposium on researching the quality of mathematics teaching. Experiences from the LISA project:Methodological challenges with assessing instructional quality in Nordic mathematics classrooms.
• Stovner, Roar Bakken; Nortvedt, Guri A.; Buchholtz, Nils & Luoto, Jennifer Maria (2018). Symposium of Researching the Quality of Mathematics Teaching.
• Luoto, Jennifer Maria; Klette, Kirsti & Blikstad-Balas, Marte (2017). Mathematics Instruction in Norway and Finland: Representation of Content. Show summary

  Results were presented from an ongoing video-study of a sample of Norwegian and Finnish secondary mathematics classrooms. Key findings were that in both context teachers focus mostly on procedural explanations and give less attention to conceptual understanding. However we found that teachers' representation of content in the Finnish sample to a higher degree explicitly tied old and new mathematical content and framed the content as learning goals.

• Solberg, Mina; Brevik, Lisbeth M. & Luoto, Jennifer Maria (2017). MA thesis: The Differentiated English Classroom. Teachers' approaches to differentiated instruction in group lessons in lower secondary school.
• Solberg, Mina; Brevik, Lisbeth M. & Luoto, Jennifer Maria (2017). Om å differensiere engelskundervisningen. Bedre Skole.  ISSN 0802-183X.  2, s 70- 75

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