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  1. Ammatillisesti koulutettujen alanvaihtajien käsityksiä teknologiasta työelämässä ja vapaa-ajalla

    Article • Aikuiskasvatus, December 2025, Aikuiskasvatus

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  2. Comment on the VET Research Framework Discussion

    Article • VETNET Conference Series, September 2025, Sektion Medienpadagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Erziehungswissenschaft - DGfE

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  3. Work-Based Learning in Migrant Education: The Case of Finnish Vocational Education

    Article • Social Sciences, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  4. What is Wisdom and Can it be Taught?

    Article • April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  5. Retention of newcomers and factors influencing turnover intentions and behaviour: a review of the literature

    Article • Education + Training, January 2025, Emerald

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  6. The evolving role of Finnish universities of applied sciences in the regional innovation ecosystem

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  7. ”Työpaikalla lanseerattiin tekoälyhaaste” – Työssäkäyvä opiskelija ja opinnot

    Article • Ammattikasvatuksen aikakauskirja, December 2022, Ammatillisen koulutuksen tutkimusseura OTTU

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  8. The Transformation of Learning: From Learning Organizations to a Landscape of Ecosystems

    Article • January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  9. Learning at the interface of higher education and work

    Article • May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  10. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Changes to Working Life: What Supports Adult Employees in Adapting to New Technology at Work?

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  11. Balancing ‘flexibility’ and ‘employability’: The changing role of general studies in the Finnish and Swedish VET curricula of the 1990s and 2010s

    Article • European Educational Research Journal, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  12. Comparison of VET in Finland and Sweden

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  13. History of Vocational Education and Training in Europe

    Article • January 2016, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  14. Finnish vocational education and training in comparison: Strengths and weaknesses

    Article • International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, December 2014, Uni Bremen Campus GmbH

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  15. Building workplace learning with polytechnics in Finland: multiple goals and cooperation in enhancing connectivity

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  16. The views of employers on internships as a means of learning from work experience in higher education

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  17. Internships in Finnish polytechnics

    Article • Education + Training, June 2007, Emerald

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  18. Work Experience Constructed by Polytechnics, Students, and Working Life: Spaces for Connectivity and Transformation

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  19. Historic origins of vocational educational and training system in Finland

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  20. Post second world war development of vocational education and training (VET) in Finland

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen

  21. Progression to higher education from VET in Nordic countries

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Ms Maarit H Virolainen