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Direct linkLappalainen, Sirpa – Ethnography and Education, 2008
In children's lives the start of school is a turning point: compulsory education is their first encounter with civil duties. This important step in the process of becoming individual citizens is permeated with strong emotions and ambivalent expectations. However, the representations of school are created, established and negotiated in educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Ethnography, Early Childhood Education
Gísladóttir, Berglind; Jóhannsdóttir, Björg – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2010
Finland and Singapore are both nations that have excelled in mathematics on international assessments, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Evidence of Finland's educational success emerged with the outcome of the first PISA study in 2000. Since…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Success
Bladh, Stephan; Heimonen, Marja – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2007
In this paper, the authors discuss the influence of democracy and law on music education in Sweden and Finland, and the potential for music education as training in democracy. The latter consideration can be instructive regardless of the nation, or its laws and paradigms of music education. The theoretical background is based on Jurgen Habermas'…
Descriptors: Music Education, Democratic Values, Educational Legislation, Democracy
Ahola, Sakari; Kivela, Suvi – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Early school leaving and dropout are widely recognized as problems, leading to further marginalization and exclusion of young people from society at large. The Finnish government has set a target that, by the year 2008, 96% of those who complete compulsory education will continue without interruption in secondary education or in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Problems, Leisure Time, Out of School Youth
Raty, Hannu – Educational Studies, 2006
This paper examines the contribution of parents' education and children's gender on parental expectations of their children's future education and the role of parental perceptions of their child's competencies in the formation of their expectations. A group of university and vocationally educated parents (N = 418) were asked to estimate the…
Descriptors: Expectation, Probability, Vocational Education, Social Differences
Bulletin of the International Bureau of Education, 1987
Presents abstracts of articles about laws on compulsory education in China; legislation affecting handicapped students in Czechoslovakia; laws on comprehensive schools in Finland; educational research on secondary education in Hungary; and reports of the Japanese National Council of Educational Reform. (CLB)
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Developed Nations, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Virtala, Mirja – Adult Education in Finland, 1987
Reports results from studies completed at Finnish Adult Education Centers. The first study examined effects of combining classroom teaching with distance education. Study two focused on using television to reach educational nonparticipants. The final study examined the offering of multiple levels of art education to allow students to advance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art Education, Classroom Environment, Compulsory Education
