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Download full textPehr Jakobsson; Åse Fagerlund; Mari Laakso; Monica Londen – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
The present study addresses the concern for the well-being of teachers and school personnel by examining the efficacy of a multicomponent positive psychology intervention aimed at enhancing emotional well-being in the school environment. The study design comprised a clustered randomized controlled trial, targeting teachers and school personnel…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
Tuija Ukskoski; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2024
This participatory action research aimed to understand teachers' experiences and the development process of collaborative expertise in a school well-being program implemented in Finnish comprehensive schools. Teachers from two schools participated in a school well-being program for one and a half school years. During the program, they reflected on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Well Being, Teacher Collaboration, School Culture
Direct linkSarkio, Katri; Korhonen, Tiina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Learning Environments Research, 2023
School spaces, technologies, and educational activities shape each other reciprocally. This mixed-methods study (i) developed a methodological framework for tracing the interdependence between school spaces, digital instruments, and teachers' practices in their use, and (ii) created practice-based knowledge about the relations of teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Learning Activities
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
Sze Wah Chan; Sanni Pöysä; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen; Eija Pakarinen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigated the relation between teachers' occupational well-being and the quality of teacher-student interactions in lower secondary schools in Finland. Teachers (N = 48) self-rated their occupational well-being in terms of engagement, stress, job demands, and emotional exhaustion. Teacher-student interactions in classrooms were…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being, Correlation, Secondary School Teachers
Sandholm, Ditte; Simonsen, Julia; Ström, Kristina; Fagerlund, Åse – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
Positive education is the teaching of both traditional school skills and skills for enhancing well-being. This study examines teachers' (N = 72) experiences with training in positive education.Qualitative content analysis was used to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiences, and quantitative measures investigated teachers' well-being.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Perander, Katarina; Londen, Monica; Holm, Gunilla – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
Efforts to reach gender equality in education in Finland have been extensive. Both teacher education and policy documents for schools have focused on gender equality and gender-neutral treatment of students. The aim of this study is to explore if and how these efforts are manifested in upper secondary school teachers' and study counsellors'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Teacher Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes
Luoto, Jennifer – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This study employs interviews and observations to investigate instructional rationales of two purposefully sampled teachers with divergent classroom discourse practices in Swedish-speaking Finnish lower secondary mathematics classrooms. Studies on classroom discourse often point to beliefs and contextual factors shaping teachers' discourse…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
Antinluoma, Markku; Ilomäki, Liisa; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Toom, Auli – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The main objectives in building professional learning communities are to improve teachers' professionalism and well-being, and create positive impacts on student learning. It is a question of changing the school culture. The main objective of this quantitative study was to investigate the maturity level of thirteen Finnish schools as professional…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Collegiality, School Culture, Institutional Characteristics
Cuconato, Morena; du Bois-Reymond, Manuela; Lunabba, Harry – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
This article discusses how teachers perceive their role in supporting and guiding students in transitions. Do teachers see themselves more as gatekeepers or as supporters? The analysis draws upon qualitative data collected in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Finland. Based on the analysis of teachers' interviews, we developed three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Qualitative Research
Talvio, Markus; Lonka, Kirsti; Komulainen, Erkki; Kuusela, Marjo; Lintunen, Taru – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2013
Introduction: This study explored the development of teachers' social and emotional learning (SEL) skills by using "Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET)" (Gordon Training International) as an intervention with two groups of teachers. Further Gordon's model was approached from the perspective of modern educational psychology. The effects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Emotional Development, Teacher Effectiveness
Pyhalto, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the kinds of episodes that challenge comprehensive school teachers' occupational well-being and cause burnout and how teachers perceive the relationship between themselves and their working environment in these episodes. Altogether, a selected group of 68 primary and secondary school teachers were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Work Environment, Well Being
Soini, Tiina; Pyhalto, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Teachers' learning and occupational well-being is crucial in attaining educational goals both in the classroom and at the school community level. In this article teachers' occupational well-being that is constructed in teaching-learning processes within the school community is referred to as pedagogical well-being. The article focuses on exploring…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
