This paper deals with dialogical development in basic education within one Finnish municipality. More specifically, it is development work done together with professionals working with students with special needs. The development has been carried out through the project Renewing Dialogues in Social and Health Care – Leadership, Well-Being and Productivity (European Social Fund Development, 2019–2021). The project aims to promote dialogue and work well-being in Finnish workpla

This paper will explore the basic principles of dialogic team coaching in TAMK Proakatemia, a special unit of entrepreneurship education in Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) in Finland. Currently the learning community of Proakatemia consists of about 150 students studying in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Entrepreneurship and Team Leadership, and physical therapist programmes; 11 coaches; about 20 students in the MBA in Entrepreneurship programme;

This is the story of a six-month intervention that enabled the successful handover of a government-run prison in the UK to a private company in 2011. I will be describing the mobilisation phase of privatisation; it is one chapter in a longer story of the transformation of the prison in private hands, and – although I won’t be covering it in detail here – nine years later the collapse of safety and security at the same prison to the point it was returned to government manageme