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Airi Rovio-Johansson

Professor Emerita

Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Telephone
+46 707-38 19 83
Mail
airi.rovio-johansson@gu.se
Visiting address
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

About Airi Rovio-Johansson

Airi Rovio-Johansson is Professor in Educational AvĐÔ°®s at Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI), School of Business, Economics and Law at University AvĐÔ°®. Multidisciplinary phenomena and her interest in human behaviour, learning and action in different educational programmes, professions, and in different life-periods influenced her selection of education at the university. Her focus in research is on how and what students learn in higher education; how people make sense of communication, in talks and in meetings in professional public and private organizations. Her current research fields are organizing change processes; students’ sustainable learning processes in higher education; organizing of subject content in teaching and lecturers´ professional development in higher education; sustainable inter-generations and intercultural lifelong learning. In a number of years she acted as coordinator of institutional quality management projects at the European University Association (EUA), notably in developing a Quality Assurance System, “Institutional Evaluation Programme: Performance in Research, Performance in Teaching Quality, and Innovation”, for European and international Higher Education Institutions. Her publications include journal articles, books, book chapters and reports. She is a member of the Editorial board of Educational Research Review and Co-Editor of International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies.

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Research areas

  • Organizing change processes
  • Learning and teaching in Higher Educationas
  • Intercultural and Intergenerational Lifelong learning

Teaching areas

  • Students' learning processes
  • Teaching processes
  • Qualitative research methodologies

Selected publications

Liff, Roy & Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2025). Mentoring as a management practice to retain newly certified professionals in healthcare organisations. Journal of Health and Organizational Management, 39(5), 54-70.

Diedrich, Andreas and Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2023). Between skills development and rural development: Agencing a Swedish training centre for furniture manufacturing in South Africa. In Gustavo Guzman, Andreas Diedrich and Franck Cochoy (2023). Space and Organizing. On spatial Agencing. pp. 75-88. Edward Elgar. ISBN: 978 1 80088 155 6.

Rovio-Johansson, Airi, Liff, Roy & Guzman Gustavo (2022) . International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 33 (2), 225-234. ISSN 1812-9129.

Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2020). Reinvestigating the theory and practice gap in Participatory Educational Research. International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, Vol 9, No. 1, 1-10.

Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2018). Variation in approaches to lesson analysis - alternative tools for the reconstruction of teaching. International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies, Vol 7 No. 2, 78-84.

Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2018). Experiences of practice-based learning in phenomenographic perspective. Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol 30, No. 1, 48-64. ISSN: 1366-5626. Rovio-Johansson, Airi (2016). International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 28:3, 427-439. ISSN 1812-9129.

Rovio-Johansson, Airi, Ingerman, Ă…ke (2016). . Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 60:3, 257-271.