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Direct linkCoe, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
Fleshing out the definition of comprehensive education to include vital issues related to the act of teaching, this article considers reforms to be undertaken by practitioners alongside the political legislation required to achieve a fully comprehensive system of secondary schools. The effects of selection, such as the widening attainment gap, the…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Educational Legislation, Educational Change, Achievement Gap
Savela, Timo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This article sets out to analyze how landscape functions in an educational context. It examines how landscape functions as an irreducible totality and as a nexus of discourse. The article focuses on the materialization of de jure and de facto discourses pertaining to languages in a primary level school in Southwest Finland. It also examines the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Download full textUusiautti, Satu; Paksuniemi, Merja; Määttä, Kaarina – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2013
This study dissects the history of Finnish elementary education and the way children were raised during the initial phase of Finnish education in the 18th century. The development of Finnish education was studied through contemporary decrees and laws and studies of Finnish school history. The preliminary aim was to focus on the principles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Child Rearing, Educational History
Pesonen, Henri; Kontu, Elina; Saarinen, Minna; Pirttimaa, Raija – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
The aim of this study was to examine conceptions associated with sense of belonging (SEBE) in Finnish general and special school placements for pupils with special education needs. Five pupils were selected for this study by means of purposive sampling. They had a history of several school placements prior to arriving at their current special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Placement, Special Education, Group Membership
Østern, Anna-Lena, Comp.; Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2013
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements, and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects, such as the…
Descriptors: Swedish, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Minorities
Vulliamy, Graham; Webb, Rosemary – Education 3-13, 2009
Some methodological issues are discussed that arise from our comparative research conducted since the early 1990s into primary schooling in Finland and England. This research has been identified as part of a "new" comparative education that uses qualitative research strategies and which prioritises sensitivity to cultural context in data…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
