Helge Räihä
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: helge.raiha@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303295
Room: F2152
About Helge Räihä
Assignments
Teaching
Swedish and Swedish as second language
Research projects
International project between Kenya and Sweden to share knowledge and initiate new research of digital multiliteracies both as learning goal and as a resource in language and vocational training of migrants. Ongoing, 2021-2022. Financed by STINT and Örebro university. (Project leader)
Building active European citizenship in the Baltic Sea area: values, identities, languages, cultural and social constraints (Project leader)
Values and Attitudes of Nordic Language Teachers Towards Second Language Education. von Post, Christina / Wikström, Patrik / Räihä, Helge / Liubinienė, Vilmantė. Published 05/22/2017, https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sm.2017.10.issue-1/issue-files/sm.2017.10.issue-1.xml
Digital multiliteracies, integration, language and mutual cultural learning in Sweden, Lithuania, Russia and Moldova. International Reseach initiation project 2018 -2019 (RJ), (Project leader)
The First International Conference, Integration, Migration and Digitalization in Europe (part of RJ 2018 -2019) (Project leader)
Link: https://www.oru.se/humes/integration_migration_digitalization
Other assignments:
Regional network leader for Swedish National Agency project: New arrivals' learning. On going project, 2016 -2021
Participant, with responsibility for evaluation and follow-up, in the project: All the way into the labor market, a 3-year integration project aimed at migrants with a weak position in the labor market. The project is mainly funded by the European Union Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF). On going project; 2020–2022
Cooperation:
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
International University of Moldova
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Moi University, Kenya
Murmansk State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation
Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Østfold University College, Norway
University of Agronomic Sciences in Bucharest, Romania
University of Warwick, England
Dalarna University, Sweden
Karlstad University, Sweden
Research projects
Active projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Räihä, H. , von Post, C. & Ivanishcheva, O. (2021). Teaching And Learning A Language In A Minority Context. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences (EpSBS), 108, 1587-1596.
- Ivanishcheva, O. N. , von Post, C. & Räihä, H. (2021). “The Fact is That Everything He is Saying So Far is Simply a Lie”: Expressive Truthmaking in the Political Debate. Čelovek, kulʹtura i obrazovanie (Human. Culture. Education) (2 (40)), 96-113.
- Ivanishcheva, O. , Räihä, H. & von Post, C. (2021). Viral Information Pandemic As A Problem Of Modern Civilization. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences (EpSBS), 120, 41-46.
- Räihä, H. , von Post, C. & Ivanishcheva, O. (2020). Contemporary Sociolinguistic Situation with Minority Language: a case study of Finland Swedish in Finland. Human. Culture. Education, 2 (36), 124-135.
- Ivanishcheva, O. N. , von Post, C. & Räihä, H. (2020). Patterns of rationality in Nordic language teachers’ views on second language. Revista Inclusiones, 7 (4), 369-391.
- von Post, C. , Wikström, P. , Räihä, H. & Liubiniene, V. (2017). Values and Attitudes of Nordic Language Teachers towards Second Language Education. Sustainable multilingualism, 10, 194-212.
Conference papers
- St John, O. , Räihä, H. , von Post, C. , Chang'ach, J. , Achieng, R. & Rotich, T. (2022). Internationalization of higher education i leveraging global inequalities. Paper presented at Public lecture. Moi University, Moi, Kenya.
- Räihä, H. , von Post, C. , St John, O. , Chang´ ach, J. , Ogwari, R. & Rotich, T. (2022). Migrant Inclusion In The Global North and South: Strategies for Sustainable Futures. In: Yagut Alieva, Kiyal Kamchybekova Abdiraim, XII. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, November 12-13, 2022, Antalya / TURKEY Proceeding Book. Paper presented at XII. International Conference on Socıal Research and Behavioral Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, November 12-13, 2022. (pp. 13-24). SADAB.
- Räihä, H. , von Post, C. , St John, O. , Chang´ ach, J. , Ogwari, R. & Rotich, T. (2022). Migrants' Attitudes to and Use of Digital Technologies: Does Context Matter?. In: Yagut Alieva; Kiyal Kamchybekova Abdiraim, XII. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, November 12-13, 2022, Antalya / TURKEY Proceeding Book. Paper presented at XII. International Conference on Socıal Research and Behavioral Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, November 12-13, 2022. (pp. 46-54). SADAB.
- Räihä, H. , von Post, C. , St John, O. , Chang´ ach, J. , Ogwari, R. & Rotich, T. (2022). The Salience of Digital Literacy in Agentic Integration of Migrants in Refugee Camps in Kenya. In: Yagut Alieva; Kiyal Kamchybekova Abdiraim, XII. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, November 12-13, 2022, Antalya / TURKEY Proceeding Book. Paper presented at XII. International Conference on Socıal Research and Behavioral Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, November 12-13, 2022. (pp. 25-37). SADAB.
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Räihä, H. (2008). Lärares dilemman. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro universitet.