Course General Description

The aim of the degree is to prepare art educators who possess advanced critical thinking and highly developed interaction skills, demonstrate wide-ranging competence in the visual fields and art education, and who can work as instructors for different groups of learners, further develop art pedagogical methods and learning environments, actively influence society through art and education, as well as participate in national and international dialogue relating to their area of knowledge. The teaching promoted in the program is based on current research in art education and related fields and is characterised by the combination of multidisciplinary views on experience-based knowledge arising from artistic and pedagogical practices.

School General Description

Aalto University's operations showcase Finland’s experiment in higher education. The Aalto Design Factory, Aalto Ventures Program and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (Aaltoes), among others, drive the university's mission for a radical shift towards multidisciplinary learning and have contributed substantially to the emergence of Helsinki as a hotbed for startups Aaltoes is Europe’s largest and most active student run entrepreneurship community that has founded major concepts such as the Startup Sauna accelerator program and the Slush startup event. The university is named in honour of Alvar Aalto, a prominent Finnish architect, designer and alumnus of the former Helsinki University of Technology, who was also instrumental in designing a large part of the university's main campus in Otaniemi.