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Reko Niemelä

University of Helsinki

PhD. student and project researcher at the University of Helsinki. Participant in several European Projects as TIMSIS (2003-2007). TIMSIS: is an EU funded project, in which a group of teacher training institutions as well as hospital schools from six countries develop web based information material focusing on the re-integration of severely or chronically ill pupils into their home schools. It is the aim to facilitate the ill pupils' way back to normalcy.

Graduated from University of Helsinki 1995 (teacher) and from University of Jyväskylä 2000 (special education teacher). Made research from special education and from immigrant students in Helsinki.

Relevant publications:

Niemelä, R. 1995. Immigrant students in Helsinki´s basic and secondary schools. Helsinki education departments publication series B7.