2023 - 2026 Talent development through non-formal science education and its educational capital
2022 - 2024 On educating the teachers of the gifted in Japan
Papers (18)：
Erkki Lassila, Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer, Oktay Kizkapan, Angela Rocena, Manabu Sumida. Giftedness in Inclusive Classrooms: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Pre-Service Teachers’ Thinking in Finland, Austria, Turkey, the Philippines, and Japan. Gifted Child Quarterly. 2023. 67. 4. 306-324
Anniina Kettunen, Erkki T. Lassila, Sonja Lutovac, Minna Uitto. Becoming a safe adult for pupils: emotions as part of first-year student teachers’ narrative identities told with photographs. European Journal of Teacher Education. 2023
Comparative research on Japanese and Finnish science textbooks: Examining the structure and questions in learning elementary school biology. Japanese Journal of Biological Education. 2023. 64. 2. 82-93
Lassila, E.T, Ahn, R. Japanese Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning Experience Using Moses’ Student-Centered Pedagogical Framework. International Journal of Teacher Leadership. 2023. 11. 2. 11-27
Lassila, Erkki T. The possibilities opened to sustainability education by post-humanism and traditional Japanese thinking. 2022. 20. 102-102
World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC) webinar
(Leveraging training opportunities to enhance gifted and talented education instruction 2024)
STEAM pedagogy in Finnish early childhood education
(Society of Japan Science Teaching National Conference 2023)
Science centers as sites for gifted education: a look at the situation in Japan and Finland
(47th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Science Education 2023)
Pre-service and In-service Teachers Situating Themselves in Inclusive Classrooms with Gifted Students: Gaps Between Teacher Thinking and Evidence-Based Practices
(European Council for Educational Research (ECER) 2023 Conference 2023)
Current state and issues of gifted education internationally
(Opening seminar for the study group on gifted education 2023)
