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Curcic, Svjetlana – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2009
With an aim to investigate inclusion across borders, quantitative and qualitative data were examined that came from 18 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, France, Iceland, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. Four themes emerged in this study: (1) concerns…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming, Cross Cultural Studies
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Davis, Shannon N.; Greenstein, Theodore N.; Marks, Jennifer P. Gerteisen – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
Using data from 17,636 respondents in 28 nations, this research uses multilevel modeling to compare the reported division of household labor and factors affecting it for currently married and currently cohabiting couples. Cohabiting men report performing more household labor than do married men, and cohabiting women report performing less…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Labor, Housework, Gender Differences
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Myyry, Liisa – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The aim of the current study was to tap implicit theories of a set of values selected from Schwartz's value model. The associations to seven value items (helpful, broad-minded, social justice, unity with nature, authority, ambitious and successful) were examined by a sample of 130 university students from three different fields of study (social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Work Environment, College Students, Models
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Komulainen, Kati – Child Care in Practice, 2010
The purpose of this study is to describe the parental burden in families with a food-allergic child under the age of four. This study was carried out using a descriptive correlational research design. The subjects of this study were 104 families with a young food-allergic child who observed a restricted diet. The majority of the children were…
Descriptors: Family Life, Nutrition, Quality of Life, Allergy
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Tikkanen, Tarja – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2002
Interviews in two technology-intensive Finnish companies (banking and engineering) found that workplace learning was continuous and active. Learning stimuli and competence development differed in two settings. A more systematic, long-term approach to learning and acknowledgment of collective competence could improve the work environment as a…
Descriptors: Banking, Clerical Workers, Educational Environment, Engineers
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Husu, Jukka – Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 2000
Describes a Finnish project that linked a remote and an urban secondary classroom to make one virtual classroom. Data from student and teacher interviews and from participant observations indicated that the virtual classroom included multiple social contexts. Remote participants appreciated the access to quality education, though teacher-student…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Distance Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
For decades Japan has remained at or near the top of international assessments of student learning; and in the past decade, students in Japan have become more engaged in learning. However, the government aspires to improve learning outcomes even further. "Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Comparative Education, Educational Testing
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Saaranen, Terhi; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Turunen, Hannele; Kiviniemi, Vesa; Vertio, Harri – Health Education Research, 2007
This study aimed to develop a theoretical basis for the promotion of school staff's occupational well-being. The "Content Model for the Promotion of School Community Staff's Occupational Well-being" describes the four aspects of the promotion of occupational well-being ("working conditions", "worker and work",…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Nurses, Occupational Safety and Health, Foreign Countries
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Harjunen, Elina – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Authority, a fundamental part of the teaching-studying-learning process, is a problematic and poorly understood component of classroom life. It can be said, in practical terms, that pedagogical authority is constructed in classrooms, in teacher-student interaction and in the spirit of their physical presence, confidence, appreciation,…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Interaction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Responsibility
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Samdal, O.; Wold, B.; Bronis, M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1999
Applies research on the adult work environment to schoolchildren's daily lives, using health survey data from 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old students in Finland, Latvia, Norway, and Slovakia. The most important school-setting predictor of students' perception of their academic achievement is satisfaction with school, teachers, and classmates. (59…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Heponiemi, Tarja; Elovainio, Marko; Pekkarinen, Laura; Sinervo, Timo; Kouvonen, Anne – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
The present study examined whether perceptions of organizational fairness (the procedural and interactional components) were able to diminish the negative effects of high job demands and low job control on the balance between work and family. The study participants were 713 women working in long-term care for elderly people in Finland. The results…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Females, Older Adults
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Jokela, Timo – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2007
The purpose of this article is to describe how the Department of Art Education at the University of Lapland in Finland has developed winter art as a method of environmental and community-based art education. I will focus on the Snow Show Winter Art Education Project, a training project funded by the European Union and the State Provincial Office…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Seminars
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Dronkers, J.; Robert, P. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multilevel approach we estimate these…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries
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Marks, Gary; Cresswell, John; Ainley, John – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This paper examines the extent that material, social, and cultural resources and schools account for the relationship between socioeconomic background and student achievement among 15-year-olds in 30 countries. Generally, cultural factors play a more important role in most countries although in a small minority of countries, material resources…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Background, Family School Relationship
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Annerstedt, Claes – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate meanings attached to physical education in the Scandinavian countries through (1) the different national syllabi; and (2) interpretations and conclusions researchers make in their studies of Scandinavian physical education and how these findings look like compared with other researchers'…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Physical Activities
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