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Järvinen, Esa-Matti; Rasinen, Aki – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2015
In 2009 the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture assigned the National Board of Education with the task of carrying out a nationwide evaluation of all seven cross-curricular themes. The evaluation is one of the largest education evaluation projects the National Board of Finland has ever organised. The present authors were invited to evaluate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Grade 9
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Hakala, Juha T.; Uusikylä, Kari; Järvinen, Esa-Matti – Improving Schools, 2015
There is a manifest tendency for national education policy to follow global economic trends. In many Western industrialized countries, this relationship has intensified or strengthened within the last decades. The strengthening of this relationship has been seen, among other things, as evidence of the growing power of neoliberal ideology. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Curriculum Development, Creativity
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Järvinen, Esa-Matti; Karsikas, Arto; Hintikka, Jouni – Journal of Technology Education, 2007
In authoritative teaching methods, whereby the teacher controls the social interaction and other classroom activities, the actions of many children are often in response to what they perceive to be the teacher's expectations and the requirements of traditional school evaluation practices, such as examinations and tests. In this kind of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Technology Education, Ownership