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Johansson, Juha; Hannula, Markku S. – Journal of Moral Education, 2014
This case study explored how children's moral expressions like love and violence differ according to the mode of narrative, comic strips or written narratives. Sixteen third-grade children from a primary school in Finland took part in the study. Children's moral expressions were divided into justice and care. Reading frequency of fairy tales and…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Moral Values, Foreign Countries, Fairy Tales
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Poikolainen, Jaana – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article analyses how Finnish parents of sixth graders in a comprehensive school act in the local "school markets" of the case city. The parents' subject positions as choosers are reflected on and explored in relation to the discourses and resources they use when discussing their school choices. The data were gathered in 2009 by…
Descriptors: School Choice, Grade 6, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Pihlainen-Bednarik, Kaisa; Keinonen, Tuula – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2011
Knowing "what do I know" and thinking about "how do I learn", that is metacognition, is an important element in learning. The Finnish curriculum points out metacognition in the choice of the studying methods. The methods should help the students to become aware of their own learning, to develop better learning strategies, and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Learning Processes
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection