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Jenni Alisaari; Leena Maria Heikkola; Raisa Harju-Autti – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
We examined Finnish pre-service primary school teachers' understandings of the role of language(s) in learning mathematics and how these understandings developed during a period of teaching practice. We also examined how the participants experienced the usefulness of the ready-made multilingual digital material "Binogi" and how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Language Role
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Alexandra Nordström; Kristiina Kumpulainen; Antti Rajala – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
This article examines the unfolding joy in young children's literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom. We focus on the unfolding of joy in intra-action among children, adults and materials during literacy learning endeavours by thinking with "new" materialist theories, and the data from an early years multiliteracies project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Literacy, Picture Books
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Saara Loukola – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of this article is to contribute to the under-researched topic of racism in Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) by posing three questions: What kind of racism do ECEC teachers recognize in ECEC? How are teachers committed to opposing racism in their work? What kind of obstacles to committing to antiracism are recognized in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Susanna Toikka; Lasse Eronen; Päivi Atjonen; Sari Havu-Nuutinen – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examined the metacognitive knowledge of Finnish comprehensive school students and explored whether grade-based differences in metacognitive knowledge exist among 6th, 7th and 9th graders. Integrating qualitative (declarative, procedural, conditional) and contextual (person, task, strategy) frameworks, the research aims for a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Instructional Program Divisions, Grade 6
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Hyttinen, Mikko; Suhonen, Jarkko – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
In this study involving blended learning in higher education, a Basics of Law (5 ECTS) course was implemented using a flipped classroom approach and a learning diary. Forty-six (N=46) students participated in a study that evaluated the students' experience of the course implementation. The specific objective of the study was to analyze students'…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, College Students, Law Students, Legal Education (Professions)
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Gizem Yagli; Gözde Akyüz – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2024
This study aims to assess the mathematics literacy levels of 15-year-old students participating in the PISA-2022 test, considering the impacts of the frequency of digital device usage, and the influence of printed and digital learning resources in the educational context across Estonia, Finland, China (Hong Kong), Croatia, and Turkey during…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Dimitra Perifanou; Eleni Konstantinou; Anne Nikula; Kristina Grendova; Aija Ahokas; Joan-Carles Casas-Baroy; Daniela Cavani; Paola Ferri; Paola Galbany-Estragués; Cinzia Gradellini; Michaela Machajova; Daniela Mecugni; Sari Nyman; Xavier Palomar-Aumatell; Janka Prnova; Montse Romero Mas; Carme Roure Pujol; Heli Thomander; Evanthia Sakellari – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Immunization is a highly cost-effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence-based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Communicable Diseases
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Leila Kääntä – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter compares two teachers' definitional practices in two Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) lessons, i.e. physics and history, which are taught in English in Finland. It adopts Dalton-Puffer's (Eur J Appl Linguistics 1(2):216-253, 2013; Cognitive discourse functions: specifying an integrative interdisciplinary construct. In:…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, History Instruction
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Condon, Lara; Koljonen, Tuula; Remillard, Janine T.; Krzywacki, Heidi; Van Steenbrugge, Hendrik – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Cross-cultural research covering multiple languages and cultures involves negotiating conceptual and linguistic challenges. This paper focuses on how researchers working across cultural and linguistic boundaries navigate the research process and negotiate a common understanding of the constructs under study. Working towards intersubjectivity…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Differences, Second Language Learning
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Aivelo, Tuomas; Uitto, Anna – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understanding how teaching affects students' attitudes and beliefs is notoriously difficult, specifically in a quickly evolving and societally relevant field such as genetics. The aim of this survey study is to capitalize our previous research and examine how teaching relates to Finnish secondary school students' liking of, self-concept in and…
Descriptors: Genetics, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Vilppola, Jiri; Lämsä, Joni; Vähäsantanen, Katja; Hämäläinen, Raija – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Context: This research was conducted in the context of Finnish vocational education and training (VET) teacher training. The teacher training was work-based, meaning that each teacher trainee was already working as an unqualified VET teacher. Workplaces were comprehensively utilised as the learning environment, with teacher training support also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy
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Sergei Glotov – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2023
Cultural misrepresentation simplifies cultures and their minorities, promotes racism, nationalism and eventually weakens democracies by spreading false information through audio-visual media. Intercultural film literacy education combines intercultural education and film literacy and uses a film as a starting point to discuss the cultural context,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Films, Visual Arts, Art Education
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Zi, Yu – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2021
This study sets two main objectives to address this research gap in CLIL materials design: to identify and to evaluate teachers' approaches to text modification. The study focuses on four secondary teachers who teach non-language subjects to grades 7-9 in Finland, in English. The qualitative data consist of interviews and teaching materials…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Jakonen, Teppo; Jauni, Heidi – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Videoconferencing is increasingly used in education as a way to support distance learning. This article contributes to the emerging interactional literature on video-mediated educational interaction by exploring how a telepresence robot is used to facilitate remote participation in university-level foreign language teaching. A telepresence robot…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education