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Jenni Sullanmaa; Kirsi Pyhältö; Janne Pietarinen; Tiina Soini – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
It has been suggested that the outcomes of curriculum reform depend on the implementation strategy and coherence making between the reform and school practice. This study examined how teachers perceived a national core curriculum reform implementation in terms of change management and knowledge sharing, and how these contributed to the perceived…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Gümüs, Emine; Bellibas, Mehmet Sükrü – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between professional development and teacher self-efficacy, exploring the extent to which various types, either job-embedded or traditional professional development activities, predict teachers' perceived self-efficacy while controlling for several teacher characteristics and school…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Davis, Tamra S.; Mountjoy, Kathy J. – International Journal for Business Education, 2021
Psychological contracts have been researched for over 50 years and have been used as the basis for studies in business, industry, and education. In this study, the researchers aimed to share the impact of psychological contract violations (PCV) upon individuals in educational institutions. Psychological contract literature is focused primarily on…
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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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
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Suzanne Lundvall; Thordis Gisladottir; Åge Lauritzen; Annemari Munk Svendsen; Kasper Salin; Runa Stefansdottir; Andreas Fröberg – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
In the present study, we present a cross-country comparison of the status and condition of sustainable development (SD) in the Nordic physical education (PE) curricula. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge of how SD perspectives are represented and conceptualised in the Nordic PE curricula. An expert-driven research approach was used…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Curriculum, Sustainable Development, Cross Cultural Studies
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Javier Gil-Flores; Javier Rodríguez-Santero; Carla Ortiz-de-Villate – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The study of variables related to the use of ICT in the classroom is a topic of interest that has been frequently researched. In this paper, after examining the importance of teacher training in explaining the use of ICT in the classroom, we focused on analysing the weight of variables related to teaching practices and the organisational context…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Technology Education, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology
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Laari, Aino; Lakkala, Suvi; Uusiautti, Satu – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The purpose of this research was to study how teachers do differentiated teaching in practice. The main research question was: How do Finnish teachers do differentiated teaching? It was specified with sub-questions: (1) How are the various elements of the model of differentiated teaching emphasized by teachers?; (2) Which methods do teachers use…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Inclusion
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Junkui Ma; Yixin Zhang; Haoyan Huang – European Journal of Education, 2024
Cultivating responsible future citizens is of increasing importance in school education. The objective of this study is to identify the most prominent factors from the school needs-based support that enhance early adolescents' sense of responsibility, using Self-Determination Theory as the framework. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 3034…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Social Emotional Learning
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Skinnari, Kristiina – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2020
This qualitative interview study focuses on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teacher agency in three European contexts, Austria, Finland and Andalusia, Spain. The aim of the study is to understand how individual CLIL teachers experience their agency when encountering challenges in their work and to demonstrate the multifaceted…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Teacher Empowerment
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Leontjev, Dmitri; Pollari, Pirjo – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study, informed by Vygotskian notion of mediation and reporting on a partnership between a researcher (the first author) and a teacher (the second author), aims at exploring how peers' comments can inform teacher assessment and guidance of learners' L2 (second/foreign language) writing. The participants were 19 L2 English learners in an upper…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Niemelä, Mikko – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
Curriculum integration has recently stirred growing interest in educational discourses. New Finnish core curricula for basic education and for general upper secondary schools encourage and even obligate schools to integrate the curriculum. Integration has been deemed to be important, as the boundaries between school subjects have remained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Integrated Curriculum, Student Teachers
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Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Pihlainen, Kaisa; Ng, Kwok; Kärnä, Eija – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
The construction of new schools has undergone much debate as children and teachers spend a significant proportion of their lives in physical learning environments in schools. The school soundscape is central but often underestimated. In this study, we investigated teachers' experiences of soundscapes in two modern Finnish comprehensive schools by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Acoustics, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings
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Vallinkoski, Katja; Koirikivi, Pia-Maria; Malkki, Leena – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
Over the last two decades, the prevention of violent radicalisation, extremism and terrorism has become a major policy issue in Europe, and educational institutions' central role in it has become widely acknowledged. However, what has rarely been addressed is that living in today's media-centred world, in which terrorism receives much dramatic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Pyhältö, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Haverinen, Kaisa; Tikkanen, Lotta; Soini, Tiina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Teacher burnout has been identified as a significant occupational hazard. However, our understanding about individual variations in burnout risk among in-service teachers is still less than sufficient. This study explored socio-contextual burnout risk profiles and their association with the reported use of proactive strategies among in-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Burnout, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Luukka, Emilia – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study examines the meanings attributed to literature in language education by Finnish General Upper Secondary teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The study employs a phenomenological research design structured around the concepts of language education, literature and values in education. The phenomenological analysis examines five…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), English Literature
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