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Hyvonen, Pirkko – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
The Finnish educational system and curricula lay emphasis on play, collaboration and equality. Modern educational practices allow the learning environment to be enlarged from indoor classrooms to outdoor playful learning environments (PLEs). PLEs have been constructed in schoolyards in Finland with the goal of increasing learning through play in…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Play, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Niikko, Anneli; Havu-Nuutinen, Sari – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
This study was conducted during the academic year 2002-2003 in a municipality in Eastern Finland. It focuses on pre-school education assessing its quality factors from the parents', teachers' and children's points of view. Theoretically, the study focuses on analyses of the purposes of the national core curriculum and pedagogical issues that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Teachers
Andrews, Paul – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2006
Recently, a multinational team of researchers on a European Union-funded project examined the teaching of mathematics in the age range 10-14 in England, Flemish Belgium, Finland, Hungary, and Spain. In this article, the author (who was a member of this team) discusses how the physical and social characteristics of schools create the conditions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment
Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling, Ed. – 1998
Authored by individuals from five Nordic countries, this book focuses on questions about the child's right to live in and learn about an ecologically sustainable world. The first five chapters are theoretical in character, while the final six chapters are derived from work done by early childhood teachers together with children. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Ecological Factors
Rasanen, Keijo – Journal of Research Practice, 2008
The managerial form of university governance has changed the conditions of academic work in many countries. While some academics consider this a welcome development, others experience it as a threat to their autonomy and to the meaningfulness of their work. This essay suggests a stance in response to the current conditions that should serve…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Silfver, Mia – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
Autobiographical narratives (N = 97) of guilt and shame experiences were analysed to determine how the nature of emotion and context relate to ways of coping in such situations. The coding categories were created by content analysis, and the connections between categories were analysed with optimal scaling and log-linear analysis. Two theoretical…
Descriptors: Coping, Content Analysis, Anxiety, Emotional Response
Helle, Laura; Tynjala, Paivi; Olkinuora, Erkki; Lonka, Kirsti – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Advocates of the project method claim that project-based learning inspires student learning. However, it has been claimed that project-based learning environments demand quite a bit of self-regulation on the part of the learner. Aims: Consequently, it was tested whether students scoring low in self-regulation of learning experienced…
Descriptors: Scoring, Motivation, Information Systems, Computer Science
Nokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi; Campbell, James Reed; Walberg, Herbert – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In the 1940s, Lewis Terman (1954a, 1954b) studied "life success" of 730 gifted men at the midpoint of their careers and found that success is associated with stability and absence of disturbing conflicts. In this article, we use retrospective data (N = 624) from the academic Olympians in 3 countries (USA, Germany, and Finland) to study…
Descriptors: Motivation, Foreign Countries, Talent, Productivity

Gordon, Tuula; Lahelma, Elina – Gender and Education, 1996
The significance of a school's physical environment is explored through a discussion of a metaphor used by some students in a study in Finland and England in which students characterized their schools. The "ant's nest" metaphor communicates the lack of spatial and embodied autonomy that students experience in school. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Aarrevaara, Timo; Dobson, Ian R.; Elander, Camilla – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2009
Finnish universities are about to enter a period of radical change. This paper considers the reforms expected of a new Universities Act currently before parliament and a set of institutional mergers. When passed, the new act will provide universities with independent legal status, change their relationship with the government in several ways,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Role, College Environment
Makinen, Jarkko; Petersson, Gunilla; Nurmi, Raija; Lonka, Kirsti – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2007
The aim of the study was to examine do health care students, who study at different programs, value similar expert qualities. To investigate this issue, a questionnaire was administered among health care students in a Finnish polytechnic (two cohorts, total n = 466), consisting of a scale for rating the importance of different expert qualities.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Laursen, Brett; Bukowski, William M.; Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Child Development, 2007
This longitudinal study investigated prospective links between social isolation and adjustment problems among 166 (77 girls, 89 boys) Finnish children ages 7 to 9. Peer nominations for social engagement and self-reports of internalizing and externalizing problems were collected in the spring of the 1st and 2nd grade. Friendship moderated…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 1, Friendship, Social Isolation
Laine, Teemu H.; Vinni, Mikko; Sedano, Carolina Islas; Joy, Mike – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2010
This article presents the features, design and architecture of the Myst pervasive game platform that has been applied in creating pervasive mobile learning games in various contexts such as science festivals and museums in Finland. Based on our experiences with the development, we draw a set of design principles for creating successfully a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Games, Young Adults, Museums

Aittola, Tapio – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Interviews with 204 Finnish college students provide evidence that the student years are no longer a classically academic life stage. Today's students in Finland divide life between study and part-time employment. The student culture has lost its independence and vitality, and students' life-worlds have become fragmented. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, College Environment, College Students, Developmental Stages
Hyvonen, Pirkko; Kangas, Marjaana – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
This study answers the following questions: "In what kinds of environments do preschool children want to play?" and "In what kinds of environments do boys and girls want to play?" Methodologically, the study draws on grounded theory, with data collected among Finnish preschoolers through creation sessions consisting of 15…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Play, Physical Activities, Females