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Lahtero, Tapio Juhani; Ahtiainen, Raisa Susanna; Lång, Niina – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
This study looks at the views of Finnish comprehensive school principals on distributed leadership and presents discussion on the leadership training required by principals and looks at it in relation to the views of principals. In Finland the qualification requirements for principals are based on their experience as teachers, and studies in…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership
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Haapala, H. L.; Hirvensalo, M. H.; Laine, K.; Laakso, L.; Hakonen, H.; Lintunen, T.; Tammelin, T. H. – Health Education Research, 2014
The national Finnish Schools on the Move programme support schools with their individual plans to promote school-based physical activity (PA). We examined the changes in adolescents' recess and overall PA in four lower secondary schools and described the school actions to promote students' PA and the local contact persons' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Physical Activity Level, Recess Breaks
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Raty, Hannu; Ruokolainen, Suvi; Kasanen, Kati – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The study set out to explore parents' experiences of their child's upper primary schooling. Academically and vocationally educated mothers and fathers (N = 326) were prompted to give positive and negative comments on their child's school years at the end of his/her 7th and 9th grade. It was found that a great majority of the comments were positive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent School Relationship, Grade 9, Fathers