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Laiho, Anne; Ruoholinna, Tarita – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
Nursing in Western countries has become increasingly more theoretical, and nurse education has been integrated more often with the higher education system. Historically, nursing has been viewed as a non-academic domain. Establishing Nursing Science (NS) in Finland in the 1970s has meant that the new discipline is defined as the core of nurse…
Descriptors: Nurses, Foreign Countries, Nursing Education, Academic Education
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Kauppi, Teemu; Porhola, Maili – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Previous studies suggest that many teachers worldwide are bullied by students. However, deeper understanding of teachers' bullying experiences; of their interpretations of the causes of bullying; and of how they cope with these experiences, is lacking. Using an Internet survey we examined the attributions made by Finnish elementary and lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attribution Theory, Bullying, Secondary School Teachers
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Virtanen, Paivi; Nevgi, Anne – Educational Psychology, 2010
This study explores how university students representing diverse disciplines and gender differ in their self-regulation in learning. The definition of self-regulated learning (SRL) in the present study is based on Pintrich's and Zimmerman's theories of SRL and comprises motivational and learning strategies. The sample consisted of 1248…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Gender Differences, Metacognition
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Kytta, Marketta; Kaaja, Mirkka; Horelli, Liisa – Environment and Behavior, 2004
This exploratory study examines ho wan Internet-assisted design game succeeds in bringing forth children's own visions for the environment where they live and their definitions of a good environment. Two connected concepts in environmental psychology, the theory of person-environment fit and the concept of affordances, are applied in the analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Games, Gender Differences