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Direct linkJudith Ansó Ros; Minna Maijala; Nelli Valkamo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Globalisation has resulted in European families that have a variety of home languages, leading to the need for heritage language learning (HLL). The purpose of HLL is to ensure that in addition to learning the language of their schools, children with migrant backgrounds also maintain their heritage language (HL). Besides the 'regular' teaching, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Teacher Role, Language Maintenance
Saara Loukola – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of this article is to contribute to the under-researched topic of racism in Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) by posing three questions: What kind of racism do ECEC teachers recognize in ECEC? How are teachers committed to opposing racism in their work? What kind of obstacles to committing to antiracism are recognized in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
M. Rönn-Liljenfeldt; C. Sundqvist; K. Ström – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Co-teaching has been brought forth as an inclusive teaching approach in research and in the Finnish core curriculum. The realisation of co-teaching at the school level puts great demands on teachers, but also on school leaders (SLs) who are expected to lead educational change. The aim of the study was to examine how SLs in Finnish schools were…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teacher Role, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
Jenna Gillett-Swan; Aspa Baroutsis – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in student and teacher voice in education. What distinguishes 'teacher voice' or 'student voice' from simply reflecting participants' views as a source of data is the placement of participants in an empowered participatory position. It is the positioning of their voice as consisting of more…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Teacher Participation, Participatory Research, Educational Research
Download full textPia Kiikeri; Satu Uusiautti; Sirpa Purtilo-Nieminen – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: Recent research on students' experiences with the quality of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the challenge to the development of online learning. During the pandemic, anxiety, depression, and fatigue occurred in online studies, which also weakened students' well-being. In this quantitative study, we examined how…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Well Being, COVID-19, Pandemics
Sari Lipponen; Kenneth Eklund; Marja-Leena Laakso; Merja Koivula; Kerttu Huttunen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators' roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Game Based Learning
Laura Ketonen; Sami Lehesvuori; Sanni Pöysä; Eija Pakarinen; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
The present study compares the feedback themes that groups of teachers (n = 5) and student teachers (n = 15) discussed in a professional development programme concerning teachers' classroom interaction and formative assessment, and the agents they assigned the feedback to. The results of the thematic analysis show little variation with the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Personal Autonomy, Feedback (Response), Student Teacher Attitudes
Riikka Suhonen; Antti Rajala; Hannele Cantell; Arto Kallioniemi – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In the context of global crises, the priorities of vocational education and training (VET) need to be reconsidered. VET should educate critically reflective global citizens who are capable of acting to create a more just and sustainable world both in their workplaces and in society at large. This study examines VET teachers' views on addressing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Citizenship Education, World Problems
Elina Fonsén; Vivianne Ruohola; Matshediso R. Modise; Sharon T. Mampane; Nkidi C. Phatudi; Päivi Kupila; Tarja Liinamaa; Hana Awad Mohamed Elhassan – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: This study explores the experiences of early childhood education (ECE) leaders during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, drawing insights from case studies in Finland and South Africa. Theoretical frameworks of contextual and pedagogical leadership inform the understanding of ECE leadership. Aim: The aim is to analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Leadership Responsibility, COVID-19
Tiina Korhonen; Sorella Karme; Johanna Airaksinen; Noora Laakso; Laura Salo – Cogent Education, 2024
In this study, we examined educational change and teachers' continuous learning from the perspective of teachers' transformative agency within the context of digitalization. We also examined the transformative needs of teachers participating in a specialization program related to digitalization and educational change, as well as experiences and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Teacher Education
Riikka Sirkko; Marjatta Takala – Education Inquiry, 2024
Due to COVID-19, schools closed in Finland for eight weeks in the spring of 2020, and teaching was conducted using distance education. Teachers used their professional agency to ensure a continuation of their students' learning. This study focuses on the experiences of teachers who taught pupils with intellectual disabilities during the distance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
Heini Ahonen; Niilo Franska; Tuire Palonen; Hanna Reinius; Netta Tiippana; Kai Hakkarainen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study examined the factors shaping co-teaching within a Finnish primary school's community. The qualitative study was conducted by teacher and principal interviews and teacher surveys. Thematic content analysis revealed five factors establishing the co-teaching practices: providing collegial support, team building, continuous professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Principals
Päivi Nilivaara; Tiina Soini – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Inevitable and constant change is challenging school systems worldwide, and COVID-19 has further intensified the debate on the future. This article examines the possible futures of Finnish comprehensive schools through three scenarios generated by analysing data from a Delphi panel of 30 Finnish experts in the field of education. This study…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Vignettes, Specialists, Delphi Technique
Maria Rönn-Liljenfeldt; Christel Sundqvist; K. Ström; Johan Korhonen – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
This study examined how Finnish primary school students perceive teachers' roles and responsibilities, their own learning and participation, and the social climate during co-taught lessons. Data were collected through a web-based questionnaire among primary school students (N = 242) from grades four to six from Finnish schools where Swedish is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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