Juli-Anna Aerila
PhD, Adjunct Professor (Reading and Literature Education)
Institution: Faculty of Educational Sciences, Turku University, Rauma Campus, Finland.
Contact: julaer@utu.fi

Fields of expertise
My research focuses on different perspectives of readership: the readership of teachers, pre-service teachers and children of different ages.

I am interested in supporting the families in reading, the multilingual practices in literature education and different holistic and arts-based approaches to literature education especially in early years’ education. A special interest area of mine is children’s humour in different contexts.
Currently, I am involved in in-service projects for multilingual education as well as reading for pleasure. Together with Merja Kauppinen (University of Jyväskylä) I have developed a research-based approach to literature education: StoRe (Stories make Readers). Finnish webpages: www.utu.fi/iki-taru
Institution / Country: Faculty of Educational Sciences, Turku University, Rauma Campus, Finland

Languages: Finnish, English

Membership and functions in professional organisations

• Editorial Board of the Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
• Membership of FELA Research Steering Group
• Membership of FinRA board

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