Anu Kröger
anu.kroger@utu.fi +358 29 450 3390 +358 50 338 0538 Assistentinkatu 5 Turku |
teacher education, student selection
teaching, teacher competencies/competencys
family research
international mobility
Anu Kröger is a PhD, who works as the Head of Faculty Development in the Faculty of Education, University of Turku. She has extensive expertise on teaching and teacher education, including working as a classroom teacher for 14 years.
Kröger has especially been involved in two national teacher education development projects, the OVET and the FinTED projects. Previously, Kröger (Warinowski) was the director of the OVET project (2017–2020), which created a research-based model for teaching (the MAP model) and national suitability testing for Finnish teacher education.
Currently, she is the operational director of the national Finnish Teacher Education Database (FinTED) . Also, she works as the chair of subsection 1 (Interest and staying power through foresight and student admissions) of the Teacher Education Forum in Finland.
Moreover, Kröger holds a title of Docent (associate professor) in “education, especially international mobility in families” at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku.
- Alkuja ja jatkumoita: alkukasvatus rakenteellisena, yhteisöllisenä ja yksilöllisenä toimintana (2026) Alkuopetus : Lapsi oppimassa ja koululaiseksi kasvamassa Kröger, Anu
- FinTED-tietovarannosta opettajankoulutuksen yhteinen tutkimusinfrastruktuuri (2026)
- Sirius
- Tulevaisuuden tekijät : Harjoittelukoulut osana tiedekuntaa ja opettajankoulutusta (2025) eNorssi - 25 vuotta kädet savessa ja katse tulevaisuudessa Kröger, Anu
- Fostering Coherence in Finnish Teacher Education: The MAP Model (2024) Coherence in European Teacher Education : Theoretical Models, Empirical Studies, Instructional Approaches Metsäpelto, Riitta-Leena; Warinowski, Anu; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija
- Research-Based Teacher Education : A Finnish Perspective (2024) Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research : Implications for Policy and Practice Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija; Heikkilä, Mirva; Iiskala, Tuike; Warinowski, Anu
- Student Teachers’ Study Profiles — Longitudinal Perspective to Research-Based Teacher Education (2024)
- Professions and Professionalism
- Epistemic agency in student teachers’ engagement with research skills (2023)
- Teaching in Higher Education
- Learning strategies, self-efficacy beliefs and academic achievement of first-year preservice teachers: a person-centred approach (2023)
- European Journal of Psychology of Education
- Opettajankoulutuksen tietovaranto FinTED: tutkimusperustainen kehittäminen yliopistoyhteistyönä (2023)
- eLIKSIIRI
- Towards Internationally Shared Principles of Quality Teacher Education: Across Finland, Hong Kong, and the United States (2023) Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research Viesca Kara Mitchell, Goodwin A. Lin, Warinowski Anu, Mikkilä-Erdmann Mirjamaija



