Fulbright Scholar Mervi Kaukko to Discuss “Education for Living Well in a World Worth Living In,” April 5

NOVA’s Office of International Education & Sponsored Programs, in collaboration with Virginia Tech, welcomes Mervi Kaukko, a Fulbright Scholar. She will present, “Education for Living Well in a World Worth Living In.”  This webinar will be held on Wednesday, April 5 from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m. Register here.

A discussion will follow, moderated by:

• Charles Lowery, associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies and
• Iuliia Hoban, assistant director for intercultural learning, Cranwell International Center. 

Originally a primary school teacher, Mervi Kaukko works as a professor of multicultural education at Tampere University, Finland. She is currently a 2022-2023 Fulbright senior scholar at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Mervi’s current research projects explore, broadly, how education can help students to live a good life in a world worth living in, and what implications this has for schools and teacher education. In particular, Mervi’s research focuses on children and youth with refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. Her current projects explore, for example, how schools can be more welcoming; what educational success looks like in the eyes of refugee students; how former unaccompanied youth in Finland, Norway and Scotland build relational well-being in their new communities; and how participatory and arts-based methods can be used with different groups of refugees. An open-access book, Living Well in a World Worth Living in, co-edited by Mervi with colleagues from Australia and Europe, was just published by Springer.

Submitted by:
Leeza Fernand, Assoc, Director of OIESP, LFernand@nvcc.edu