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Direct linkRiikka 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
Teräs, Hanna; Teräs, Marko; Suoranta, Juha – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
Although digitalization has become an everyday phenomenon in higher education (HE), there is still limited understanding on how HE teachers experience the digitalized work environment. In this article we utilize narrative research methodology to share HE teachers' voices, addressing the following questions: What is the lived experience of being a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Work Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in 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
Tirri, Kirsi – Gifted Education International, 2022
Giftedness in the Finnish educational culture is seen as taboo, and it is easier to talk about talent development. We need to widen the concept in the ways that would address both excellence and ethics. The definition of transformational giftedness includes a beyond-the-self orientation and implies that the purpose of giftedness is to help to make…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Gifted, Talent Development
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
Hartikainen, Jani; Haapala, Eero A.; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Sääkslahti, Arja; Laukkanen, Arto; Gao, Ying; Finni, Taija – Learning Environments Research, 2023
As a result of educational reforms in many countries, including Finland, new or renovated comprehensive schools have increasingly begun to incorporate open and flexible designs and principles. Multipurpose and adaptable open learning spaces can provide children with amplified opportunities to be physically active during general education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Physical Activities, Classroom Environment
Mankki, Ville – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
School lockdowns in response to COVID-19 have forced teachers around the world to quickly and unexpectedly shift from face-to-face to distance teaching. The struggle with the forced transition has been even more severe in the lower levels of schooling than in higher education institutions, which had already established online course delivery…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Teachers, Distance Education
Download full textChappell, Julie; Szente, Judit – International Journal of the Whole Child, 2019
The goal of early childhood programming is to provide children with high-quality early care and to support educators' understanding and ability to implement high-quality practices on behalf of children and their families. Quality in early childhood care is an ambiguous concept, relative to various social and context-specific factors, making it…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Abankwa, Julia; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija – International Journal of Music Education, 2018
The investigation of targeted competencies and respective learning environments in two cases of piano teacher education aimed to identify themes for higher music education programme development. Application of the model of six instrumental/vocal music teacher roles resulted in the conceptual understanding of these roles in four permeable spheres…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Musical Instruments
Pannula Toft, Pia; Paksuniemi, Merja; Westberg, Johannes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
The purpose of this article is to clarify what kind of role schools and teachers played in the well-being of Finnish war children during and after the Second World War. The study focuses on the children who were evacuated to Denmark, also known as Finnebørn, and their experiences and memories as war children in Denmark and returning evacuees back…
Descriptors: School Role, Teacher Role, Primary Sources, War
Ahonen, Elsi; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina – Teacher Development, 2014
In recent decades, many educational reforms have been implemented that aim to effect a change in teachers' and pupils' roles by promoting meaningful learning. Yet, little is known about how teachers perceive these roles as a part of their professional belief system. In this study, 68 Finnish comprehensive school teachers were interviewed. The data…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Student Role
Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Teacher Development, 2016
This study focuses on exploring teacher learning in terms of teachers' professional agency embedded in the classroom. Teachers' sense of professional agency is related to perceiving instruction as a bidirectional process, use of students as a resource for professional learning and continuous reflection on teaching practices. Accordingly, the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Correlation, Teacher Burnout
Hämäläinen, Raija; Oksanen, Kimmo – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2014
Collaborative games will enable new kinds of possibilities for learning. In the future, the goal of game-based learning should be to introduce new ideas and deepen learners' in-depth understanding. However, studies have shown that shared high-level knowledge construction is a challenging process. Moreover, thus far, few empirical studies have…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Simulated Environment
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