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Niemi, Reetta; Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Lipponen, Lasse – Improving Schools, 2018
In the new national core curriculum for Finnish preschool and basic education, rationales for supporting pupil participation are framed by the goal of developing school communities by listening to pupils' perspectives, the social nature of teaching and learning and pupils' participatory role in planning, implementing and evaluating their own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
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Sirkko, Riikka; Kyrönlampi, Taina; Puroila, Anna-Maija – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Children's agency accords with the principles emphasised by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations in Convention on the rights of the child. UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva. Retrieved from, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx, 1989). This study focuses on children's…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
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Eskola, Sisko; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Bessems, Kathelijne; Sormunen, Marjorita – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Increasing numbers of children are facing health problems as a result of physical inactivity. Besides the home, school is a natural place to promote children's daily physical activity (PA). Knowledge about factors promoting or preventing children's PA at school, from the perspective of children, is limited. Purpose: The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Child Health, Life Style, School Role
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Vartiainen, Henriikka; Leinonen, Teemu; Nissinen, Saara – Educational Media International, 2019
Connected learning is claimed to support children to connect their formal learning with wider social network and media tools in an interest-driven and inquiry-oriented manner. In a formal context there are few successful implementations of connected learning. This study explores how a kindergarten community of 8 adults and 42 children, equipped…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Networks, Social Media, Sociocultural Patterns
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Niemi, Reetta; Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Lipponen, Lasse; Hilppö, Jaakko – Education 3-13, 2015
This paper is based on a pedagogical action research initiative that explores what constitutes the "lived pedagogy" of the classroom from the pupils' perspective. Photography and group interviews were utilised to allow pupils to express their perspectives. The results show that pupils considered situations meaningful when they were able…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Student Experience, Phenomenology