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David Lansing Cameron; Camilla Herlofsen; Charlotte Riis Jensen; Gunilla Lindqvist; Mette Molbaek; Kristina Ström; Christel Sundqvist – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of special education professionals in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in light of educational policies and reforms. The study places emphasis on (a) the policy context of inclusion and special needs education, (b) the formal qualifications required of special education professionals, and (c)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
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Nina Nivanaho; Sonia Lempinen; Piia Seppänen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
Education business and the actors involved in it have gained increasing global attention. However, little is known about the commercial actors participating in mainly publicly maintained comprehensive schooling in Finland and how the roles of teachers and schools are seen in this edu-business. In this article, we analyze 'edu-business…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Corporate Education, Global Approach
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Juha Tuunainen; Kari Kantasalmi; Sari Laari-Salmela – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Referring to failures in policy-driven public governance research this paper looks at strategising in higher education. It expands horizons for understanding university strategies in a more nuanced way than hitherto has been done. Deploying systems theory, it shows how different temporalities co-exist in strategies and how their change reflects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Strategic Planning, Educational Legislation
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Tuija Kasa; Kristiina Brunila; Reetta Toivanen – Educational Review, 2024
Finland has repeatedly been presented as a "success story" of equality and education, promoter of human rights and included equality and human rights as part of national curricula. However, research has shown the slow progress of integrating topics of equality and human rights in teacher education despite hundreds of project-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Intervention, Civil Rights
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Perttu Ahoketo; Juha Suoranta – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2024
This article is an ethnography of a student protest against a Finnish university's plans to give up 25 percent of its campus buildings until 2030. The Finnish universities faced financial deficits primarily due to education cuts implemented by Finland's right-wing government between 2015 and 2019. To balance the budget, Tampere University proposed…
Descriptors: Activism, Neoliberalism, Student Attitudes, Ethnography
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Tjaša Dražnik; Júlia Llompart-Esbert; Mari Bergroth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examined student teachers' beliefs about teaching multilingual classrooms across three European contexts; Slovenia, Spain (Catalonia), and Finland. Research shows that teachers' confidence in handling linguistically diverse classrooms is lacking. Linguistically sensitive teaching (LST) was used as a lens to explore different expressions…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies