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Kouki, Elina; Virta, Arja – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
The aim of this study is to examine upper secondary students' (n = 96) argumentation skills and ability to discuss a controversial issue: the evacuation of Finnish children to Sweden and other Nordic countries because of the war. According to their essays written on the basis of multifaceted and contradictory sources, most of the students were not…
Descriptors: Ethics, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Secondary School Students, Persuasive Discourse
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Wardi, Eva; Helkama, Klaus – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Seventeen social educator students were taught to analyze their work activity by means of a Vygotsky-inspired method, drawing on Engeström's notion of an activity system. The method aimed at increasing the consciousness of the students of the structure of work activity system. The participants wrote two accounts of their field-work practice…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Intervention, Sociocultural Patterns, Child Welfare