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Typical and Individual Doctoral Processes and Lifecourses: The Types of Narratives of The Project Manager, The Survivor and The Seeker
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Maunula, Minna – World Journal of Education, 2015
One task of the doctoral education is, globally as well as nationally, to produce and renew the highest expertise and knowledge in a high quality and efficient way. Even though in this global time the high-quality knowledge and skills are a competition factor which the success of the societies is expected to be able to lean on, also the doctoral…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Program Administration, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Strengthening the Weaknesses: The Leadership Dexterity of Special Students. A Case of Special Students at University of Tampere in Finland
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Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – Online Submission, 2013
Leadership is a complex phenomenon and is also the least understood although discussed widely. However, in education leadership is everywhere. Moreover, taking into consideration of special students leadership, my research explores the dexterity of special students in terms of traits approach of leadership. Cases were developed from special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Special Needs Students, College Students
Proactive and Reactive Dimensions of Life-Course Agency: Mapping Student Teachers' Language Learning Experiences
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Ruohotie-Lyhty, Maria; Moate, Josephine – Language and Education, 2015
Although the concept of agency has received a lot of interest in recent educational research, its significance in language learning biographies as well as contextual and relational aspects of learner agency are still little studied. This paper aims at a more thorough understanding of agency by studying student teachers' previous language learning…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Essays
Leadership of Special Students in Strengthening Their Ability by Understanding Their Weaknesses
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Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – Online Submission, 2016
This paper explores the traits of the leadership dexterity of special students. Leadership in special students is not an expected phenomenon. Cases of special students studying at the University of Tampere, Finland are reported on here. Each case contributes uniqueness and offers qualitative insight into this phenomenon. Interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Special Needs Students, Special Education
Learning Crafts as Practices of Masculinity. Finnish Male Trainee Teachers' Reflections and Experiences
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Kokko, Sirpa – Gender and Education, 2012
Craft education in Finland has long gendered traditions that effect the present situation. The aim of this paper is to analyse the processes of learning the interlinking of crafts and gender. The analysis concentrates on male trainee teachers' experiences of craft education in comprehensive schools in Finland. Data were collected through memory…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Preservice Teacher Education
The American Journal of Education. National Series. Volume Eight. Entire Series--Volume XXIV
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Barnard, Henry, Ed. – American Journal of Education, 1873
This document contains Volume Eight of the "National Series" of the "American Journal of Education." This volume for 1873 contains a general index to the principal subjects in history, biography, systems, institutions, principles, and methods of education contained in the previous volumes (I-XXIV). Articles in issues 29-32…
Descriptors: History, Biographies, Schools, Educational Principles