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Dr Turkan Firinci Orman

Turkan Firinci

Associate Professor of Sociology; Interuniversity Council, Ankara, Turkey; Independent Senior Scholar, Tampere, Finland.

Email: turkanfirinci@gmail.com

Profile

Dr. Turkan Firinci Orman is an interdisciplinary youth scholar with over 15 years of experience in academia, international organisations, and government, specialising in youth geographies, environmental education, and transformative pedagogies. Her research explores environmental citizenship, youth political behaviour, and utopian envisioning through grassroots and public pedagogies. As a tenured professor and project leader, Dr. Turkan Firinci Orman has developed research-informed postgraduate curricula in sociology and led participatory workshops with young people in diverse contexts. She has directed international research projects and fostered collaborative, interdisciplinary learning environments. Her work advances critical education and engaged research to promote equitable and sustainable futures.

Research

Publications

Firinci Orman, T. (2025). A Conceptual Model for Youth-Led Urban Utopias: Leveraging Critical Environmental Pedagogies for Sustainable Futures. Environmental Education Research. 1-16. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2489118

Firinci Orman, T. (2025). Towards Multispecies Pedagogies: Seeking Collective Agency in Early Childhood Education. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2487026

Firinci Orman, T. (2025). Everyday Activism Performances and Liminal Political Positionings of Early Youth in Bulgaria: Learning to be Environmental Subjects. Youth, 5(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5010025

Firinci Orman, T. (2025). Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility. Philosophy & Social Criticism. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537251317117

Firinci Orman, T. (2025). Experiential Learning in a Multicultural Online Space: ‘My Digital Self’—Avatar Design Workshop. Journal of Formative Design in Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41686-025-00103-8

Firinci Orman, T. (2025). Significance of Lived Experiences in Developing Eco-Literacy: Pedagogical Insights for Climate Education. Climate Literacy in Education. 3(1). https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v3i1.6408

Expertise

Environmental citizenship; youth subjectivities and identity formation; political participation; participatory design with children and youth; place-based, speculative and transformative pedagogies; grassroots pedagogies; utopian envisioning and green cities; futures literacy; eco-literacy.
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