Dr. paed Karine Oganisjana is a professor and leading researcher at the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management of Riga Technical University and an expert of two sub-branches of Social Sciences of the Latvian Council of Science – Economics & Entrepreneurship, and Educational sciences. Karine has taught physics, mathematics, pedagogy, research methods, research methodology, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, etc. Her keen pedagogical interests are to elaborate research-based approaches to promote learners’ multiple types of thinking, metacognitive power, deep understanding, entrepreneurial and research skills, creativity, mindfulness, the ability to adjust their inner and outer worlds to achieve harmony and the feeling of happiness even in crisis. The Erasmus project ENABLES laid a new path of professional thought linked to the use of arts-based and embodied learning (ABEL) to promote learners’ distributed leadership. As a logical continuation of it, the AECED project provides a new opportunity for trying ABEL methods and researching their effect on establishing democratic ethos, experiencing democracy, thinking and acting democratically in schools.
Her hobbies are watching psychological films, singing and listening to opera and symphonic music. Karine’s life motto is “If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have!”