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Hnin Yu Soe; Paul John Edrada Alegado – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
This study aims to assess and examine secondary school teachers' perceptions of school climate and job satisfaction in five diverse countries: Japan, Korea, Finland, the United States of America (USA), and Australia. It explores the impact of school climate on teachers' job satisfaction, a pivotal factor influencing teacher retention, mobility,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Environment
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Tuija Ukskoski; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2024
This participatory action research aimed to understand teachers' experiences and the development process of collaborative expertise in a school well-being program implemented in Finnish comprehensive schools. Teachers from two schools participated in a school well-being program for one and a half school years. During the program, they reflected on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Well Being, Teacher Collaboration, School Culture
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Raili Hilden; Anne Dragemark-Oscarson; Ali Yildirim; Birgitta Fröjdendahl – Cogent Education, 2024
The objective of this study is to expand teachers' knowledge base of assessment in teaching by exploring pre-service language teachers' construct of grading literacy during their pedagogical studies and immediately after. We conceptualize pre-service language teachers' grading literacy with a literature-based flow model of decision-making…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Grading, Foreign Countries
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Sakari Tolppanen – Educational Studies, 2024
In education, a multidisciplinary approach is needed in order to address many of today's multifaceted challenges. Though multidisciplinary educational approaches have been shown to have benefits on learning, many studies show that teachers often struggle to implement multidisciplinary education, partially due to lack of time and planning. To…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Tiina Luoma; Sonja Kosunen – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
In this article, we ask how students with a range of social class and ethnic backgrounds perceive their opportunities to participate in the classroom and influence their learning, and what perceptions teachers have of teaching and students' participation in a school with a diverse student body. The context of this study is a lower secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Metropolitan Areas
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Anastasia Gouseti; Minna Lakkala; Juliana Raffaghelli; Maria Ranieri; Alice Roffi; Liisa Ilomäki – Educational Review, 2024
Digital systems are increasingly becoming central to the running of contemporary schools. A range of digital tools are also adopted by teachers to facilitate face to face teaching and learning and more recently to accommodate remote schooling. Similarly, digital technologies lie at the heart of how students support their learning but also interact…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Digital Literacy, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Riikka Sirkko; Ninnu Kotilainen; Marjatta Takala – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
Although Nordic countries are committed to developing inclusive education, a gap often exists between policy, ideals, and the realisation of inclusion in practice. In Finnish schools, part-time special education is an important tool for promoting inclusive education in the three-tier system. In this study, our research questions were: (1) What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Secondary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers
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Jingwen Jiang; Moti Benita; Sarah Teresa Steffgen; Leen Haerens; Ka Wing Karen Lai – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigated associations between need-supportive teaching and student and teacher emotions using mixed methods. Quantitative data were gathered from the self-reports of 326 lower-secondary school students from 22 classes in Finland. Qualitative data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with four teachers. The student ratings…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Behavior, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Tommi Niinisalo – Gender and Education, 2024
Finnish queer teachers work in an esteemed profession but also belong to a marginalized minority group. This article analyses interview data focusing on non-heterosexual teachers' understanding of their language use in schools, drawing from sociolinguistic research with queer linguistics. Methodologically, Critical Discourse Analysis is applied to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, LGBTQ People
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Jenni Sullanmaa; Kirsi Pyhältö; Janne Pietarinen; Tiina Soini – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
It has been suggested that the outcomes of curriculum reform depend on the implementation strategy and coherence making between the reform and school practice. This study examined how teachers perceived a national core curriculum reform implementation in terms of change management and knowledge sharing, and how these contributed to the perceived…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
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Suzanne Lundvall; Thordis Gisladottir; Åge Lauritzen; Annemari Munk Svendsen; Kasper Salin; Runa Stefansdottir; Andreas Fröberg – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
In the present study, we present a cross-country comparison of the status and condition of sustainable development (SD) in the Nordic physical education (PE) curricula. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge of how SD perspectives are represented and conceptualised in the Nordic PE curricula. An expert-driven research approach was used…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Curriculum, Sustainable Development, Cross Cultural Studies
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Javier Gil-Flores; Javier Rodríguez-Santero; Carla Ortiz-de-Villate – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The study of variables related to the use of ICT in the classroom is a topic of interest that has been frequently researched. In this paper, after examining the importance of teacher training in explaining the use of ICT in the classroom, we focused on analysing the weight of variables related to teaching practices and the organisational context…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Technology Education, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology
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Junkui Ma; Yixin Zhang; Haoyan Huang – European Journal of Education, 2024
Cultivating responsible future citizens is of increasing importance in school education. The objective of this study is to identify the most prominent factors from the school needs-based support that enhance early adolescents' sense of responsibility, using Self-Determination Theory as the framework. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 3034…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Social Emotional Learning
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Sze Wah Chan; Sanni Pöysä; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen; Eija Pakarinen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigated the relation between teachers' occupational well-being and the quality of teacher-student interactions in lower secondary schools in Finland. Teachers (N = 48) self-rated their occupational well-being in terms of engagement, stress, job demands, and emotional exhaustion. Teacher-student interactions in classrooms were…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being, Correlation, Secondary School Teachers