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Direct linkUbani, Martin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2015
This article explores the professional reflection of three male religious education (RE) student teachers during their one-year pedagogical training. The participants (n = 3) interviewed in this article were chosen on the basis of their self-report in the questionnaire in which they claimed no previous teaching experience. The participants were…
Descriptors: Males, Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Student Teachers
Rintakorpi, Kati – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2016
The Finnish social pedagogical curriculum for early childhood education directs early childhood teachers to use documentation to assess and develop pedagogy and practise. This empirical study examines the challenges and benefits a group of Finnish preschool teachers experienced when they learned to document their work. Although the idea of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Documentation, Preschool Teachers, Educational Practices
Mäkelä, Kasper; Hirvensalo, Mirja; Laakso, Lauri; Whipp, Peter R. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Teacher turnover has been identified as a major problem that represents instability in teaching. Teacher turnover can be divided into three components: attrition means that the teacher is leaving the profession; "area transfer" means that the teacher is changing his/her subject area and "migration" means that the…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Download full textNissilä, Säde-Pirkko; Karjalainen, Asko; Koukkari, Marja; Kepanen, Pirkko – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
Competence-based education refers to the integration of knowledge, skills, attitudes and interactivity as the intended outcomes of learning. It makes use of lifelong learning and lifelike tasks in realistic settings and requires the cooperation of teachers. This research was prompted by the desire to explain why collegial cooperation often seems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Professional Identity
Kikas, Eve; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study examined the role of family-related (mother's education, depressive symptoms and child's gender) and kindergarten-related (teacher's experience, teaching practices and class size) factors in mothers' and teachers' mutual trust in Estonia and Finland. Six hundred eighteen (206 Estonian and 412 Finnish) mothers of kindergarten children…
Descriptors: Role, Family Environment, Questionnaires, Trust (Psychology)
Saaranen, Terhi; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Ryhänen, Eva; Turunen, Hannele – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports the development and results of a project within the Comenius program to promote teachers' occupational well-being, in which Finnish, Irish, Italian, and German school communities participated between 2003 and 2006. The project made use of participatory action research, in which the occupational well-being of staff was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Programs, Teachers, Job Satisfaction
Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Kikas, Eve; Pakarinen, Eija; Trossmann, Kaili; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena; Siekkinen, Martti; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: The aim of the study was to examine the applicability and psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure (ECCOM; D. J. Stipek & P. Byler, 2005) outside the United States. The ECCOM was used to observe 83 kindergarten teachers (49 in Finland and 34 in Estonia) in classroom situations.…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Measures (Individuals), Educational Quality, Kindergarten
Sairanen, Leena; Pfeffer, Karen – School Psychology International, 2011
Teachers play an important role in bullying prevention. This study examines teachers' views on the extent and ways in which they would intervene in bullying situations. The sample comprised 136 teachers from junior high schools in Finland (107 females and 29 males). Years of service ranged from newly qualified to over 20 years of experience.…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Bullying, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
Ubani, Martin – British Journal of Religious Education, 2012
This study is part of a research project concerning perceptions of competence among RE student teachers at different stages of their pedagogical studies. This article focuses on the perceptions of RE teachers' competence at the beginning of their training. According to the qualitative data the RE student teachers discerned various areas of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Learning Theories, Student Teachers, Religious Education
Jaakkola, Timo; Watt, Anthony – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2011
The main purpose of the study was to analyze teaching styles used in Finnish physical education. Another aim was to investigate the relationships between background characteristics of teachers and use of teaching styles. The participants of the study were 294 (185 females and 109 males) Finnish physical education teachers. The teachers responded…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Class Size, Teaching Styles, Academic Achievement
Saloviita, Timo; Takala, Marjatta – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2010
Co-teaching--or the use of more than one teacher in a classroom--has been commonly recommended as a means to promote inclusive education. The aim of the present study was to survey the actual frequency of co-teaching among different teacher categories in the comprehensive school level in one Finnish city. The data were collected through a…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Resource Teachers, Cohort Analysis, Team Teaching
McCormick, Robert; Li, Nai – Learning, Media & Technology, 2006
Most studies on reusable digital learning materials, learning objects (LOs), relate to their use in universities. Few empirical studies exist to explore the impact of LOs on pedagogy, especially in schools. This paper provides evidence from an evaluation of the use of LOs in schools. The evidence is from a European Union-funded project, Context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
