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Louhiala-Salminen, Leena – English for Specific Purposes, 1996
Focuses on written business communication in a changing technological environment. The article presents the results of a questionnaire and interview study conducted among Finnish business professionals on their English business communication with special emphasis on developments in the organization, structure, and language of written…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business English, Change Agents, English for Special Purposes
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Sun, Hechuan; Creemers, Bert P. M.; de Jong, Rob – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
This research provides policy-makers, researchers, and educators at all levels with a glimpse of the contextual influence on effective school improvement (ESI) in 8 European countries. What are the factors at the contextual level, particularly at the national level, which influence ESI? Are there any similarities or differences between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Context Effect
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Turtiainen, Pirjo; Karvonen, Sakari; Rahkonen, Ossi – Journal of Youth Studies, 2007
The aim of this article is to explore young people's everyday family life with special reference to the use of time. First, we ask what kinds of activities young people engage in with their families, what kinds of families spend most time together, and whether this has changed over time. These analyses were based on two surveys conducted in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Adolescents, Secondary School Students
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Holland, Janet; Gordon, Tuula; Lahelma, Elina – Ethnography and Education, 2007
In this paper, we draw on a cross-cultural ethnographic study conducted in two secondary schools in Helsinki (Finland), and two in London (UK). In our analysis of everyday life in schools, space is not merely a backdrop to activities that take place, it also shapes processes and activities, and spatial relations are simultaneously temporal. Here,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Secondary Schools
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Kaljonen, Minna – Journal of Rural Studies, 2006
One of the main challenges of European environmental policies is to recruit local-level actors to fulfill set targets. This article explores how targets of European agri-environmental policy have been achieved in Finland. It also analyses how implementation practices produce conditions for agri-environmental management and how policy success-or…
Descriptors: Farm Management, Public Policy, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
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Leslie, David W. – Review of Higher Education, 1994
The "folkehojskoler," innovative Scandinavian secondary schools based on radical humanistic ideas, are examined from both empirical and philosophical perspectives, focusing on three elements: ideology; the student experience; and the teaching culture. Implications for goals, objectives, assumptions, forms, and practices in American…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
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Engestrom, Yrjo; Young, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2001
Engestrom examines activity theory and expansive learning by describing Who are the subjects of learning? Why do they learn? What do they learn? and How do they learn? Presents five principles: activity system as the unit of analysis, multiple voices, historicity, contradictions as sources of change, and expansive transformation. Young provides…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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Metsapelto, R.L.; Pulkkinen, L. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology: An International Lifespan Journal, 2005
The present study examined multiple measures of parenting (i.e., nurturance reported by parents themselves, child-centered behavior rated by trained observers, and child-reported parenting and family atmosphere) and their association with parents' personality trait of extraversion (E). The study was part of the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Personality, Family Environment, Child Rearing, Social Development
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Saaranen, Terhi; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Turunen, Hannele; Naumanen, Paula – Health Education, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the baseline results of a school development project where the aim was to improve school community staff's occupational wellbeing in co-operation with occupational health nurses. Design/methodology/approach: The Wellbeing at Your Work index form for school staff developed for the study aimed to…
Descriptors: Occupational Information, Nurses, Occupational Safety and Health, Foreign Countries
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Laru, Jari; Jarvela, Sanna – Educational Media International, 2008
The aim of this study was to identify social patterns in mobile technology mediated collaboration among distributed members of the professional distance education community. Ten participants worked for 12 weeks designing a master's programme in information sciences. The participants' mobile technology usage activity and interview data were first…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Distance Education, Network Analysis, Cooperation
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Saarnivaara, Marjatta; Sarja, Anneli – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the transition from university to working life through different theoretical approaches. Inspired by Barnett the paper also asks: What is it to learn for an unknown future? According to Bartlett neither knowledge nor skills are sufficient to enable success in the contemporary world. What is…
Descriptors: Mentors, Education Work Relationship, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Faculty Development, Staff Development, Educational Quality
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Papp, Inkeri; Markkanen, Marjatta; von Bonsdorff, Mikaela – Nurse Education Today, 2003
Finnish student nurses (n=16) described their clinical learning experiences. Several themes were identified: feeling appreciated and supported, the quality of mentoring and patient care, and self-directedness. School and clinical staff cooperation helped create a good learning environment in which theory and practice complemented each other.…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Page, Tom; Lehtonen, Miika; Ha, Joong Gyu – Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
This article provides a descriptive account of the development of an approach to the support of design and technology education with 3D Virtual Reality (VR) technologies on an open and distance learning basis. This work promotes an understanding of the implications and possibilities of advanced virtual learning technologies in education for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Educational Environment, Computer Simulation
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Lakkala, M.; Ilomaki, L.; Palonen, T. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2007
The aim of the present study was to investigate the challenges that relate to the implementation of virtual inquiry practises in middle school. The case was a school course in which a group of Finnish students (N = 14) and teachers (N = 7) completed group inquiries through virtual collaboration, using a web-based learning environment. The task was…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Content Analysis
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