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Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2023
This report describes how entrepreneurship competence is embedded in vocational education and training (VET) in Finland. It complements existing knowledge with examples of methods, tools and approaches that can help policy-makers, VET providers and other stakeholders build better entrepreneurial learning ecosystems. The report is based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education
Lee, Jeongwoo; Desjardins, Richard – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
In conducting a literature review, this article explores changes to Adult Learning and Education (ALE) policies and related processes as well as the context within which those changes have taken place, so as to draw out comparative insights regarding the unequal distribution of participation in ALE. Emphasis is on an analysis of political…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Anna Siippainen; Hannele Pitkänen – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
The rise of evaluation and data in education and education policy is a trend manifesting across a wide variety of policy contexts, holding in its grip national and global policies, with impacts that reach the level of individual children, teachers, and their subjectivities. Earlier research has mainly focused on the phenomenon in neoliberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment
Olga Dziubaniuk; Catharina Groop; Maria Ivanova-Gongne; Monica Nyholm; Ilia Gugenishvili – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the range of sustainability-related discourses by the stakeholders within a particular Finnish Higher Education Institution (HEI); interaction between the discourses and the context of the HEI; and the extent to which different understandings of sustainability cause challenges for the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Barriers
Alessandra Aldrovandi; Mira Kalalahti; Åsa Sundelin – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
Career guidance and counselling (CGC) plays an important role in the 'egalitarian tradition' of the Nordic countries' perspective of education, since it aims to support all students in developing skills and knowledge to access further education and the labour market. Inspired by the critical institutionalism approach and focusing on education…
Descriptors: Coping, Career Guidance, Career Counseling, Immigrants
Lietzén, Outi – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article explores the positioning of dual qualifications (DQs) in the Finnish education policy and the education system since the late 1980s. The analysis is carried out in the context of academic-vocational divide. At the end of the 1980s, Finland questioned the functionality of the strict academic-vocational divide in post-compulsory…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Education, Vocational Education, Educational Policy
Ahtiainen, Raisa; Pulkkinen, Jonna; Jahnukainen, Markku – Education Sciences, 2021
In recent decades, an essential global aim of the reforms of special education has been the promotion of inclusive education. This article discusses the implementation of reforms with a focus on tiered support systems in the context of Finnish comprehensive school education. Based on earlier literature, legislation, and administrative documents,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Inclusion
Paananen, Maiju – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This ethnographic study, carried out in public kindergartens in Finland, traces the enactments of the societal roles of early childhood education. It highlights how the intertwining of governing tools and discourses related to early childhood education's societal role participates in the formation of daily life in kindergarten. The concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Role of Education, Social Justice
Haug, Erik Hagaseth; Plant, Peter; Valdimarsdóttir, Soffía; Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela; Vuorinen, Raimo; Lovén, Anders; Vilhjálmsdóttir, Guðbjörg – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
Educational and vocational guidance has received increased attention with regard to policymaking in the Nordic countries over the last 15 years. This has led to a growing interest in research-based knowledge. Updating an earlier article, we undertake a systematic literature review of guidance research in the Nordic countries during this 15-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Career Guidance, Educational Counseling
Zajda, Joseph, Ed.; Majhanovich, Suzanne, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2022
This book presents a global overview of discourses of globalization, current research in education and education policy reforms. It first examines globalisation, education and policy research and reforms in education, including coverage of main trends in education and policy reforms globally, as well as specific policy issues such as equity,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Motoko Akiba; Soo-yong Byun; Xiaonan Jiang; Kyeongwon Kim; Alex J. Moran – AERA Open, 2023
Teacher accountability reforms implemented around the globe have heightened a sense that teachers are losing the support of policymakers and the general public. To examine the global pattern in teachers' perception of occupational value and identify possible outcomes and predictors, we analyzed the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys
Henna Juusola – Educational Research, 2023
Background: Questions about the optimum age for young people to complete their compulsory education, and how this relates to issues of equity, are familiar topics of debate in many jurisdictions. The aim of educational equity has been fundamental in Finnish education, upheld through decades of reforms. A recent reform has extended compulsory…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Compulsory Education, Educational Attitudes
Raisa Ahtiainen Ed.; Eija Hanhimäki Ed.; Jaana Leinonen Ed.; Mika Risku Ed.; Ann-Sofie Smeds-Nylund Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth coverage of contemporary aspects of leadership in the field of education in Finland. It brings together Finnish scholars to critically explore and discuss leadership in education in the context of the Finnish education system and in relation to international discourses around the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Education, Leadership Styles
Bokhove, Christian; Muijs, Daniel; Downey, Christopher – Educational Research, 2022
Background: Bullying is widely acknowledged as one of the most harmful events in a child's life, leading to negative life experiences and outcomes. However, 'school effects of bullying' are rarely studied from an international perspective, especially with international large-scale data. Purpose: In this study, we aim to look at bullying through an…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Bullying, Comparative Education
Hardy, Ian; Heikkinen, Hannu; Olin, Anette – Teacher Development, 2020
In this article, the authors refer to key national policies, and associated politics, in the Swedish, Finnish and Australian contexts, to reveal the key discourses that characterise how ongoing teacher learning is constituted in these settings. Drawing upon Peck and Theodore's notion of 'fast policy', the authors identify what they describe as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Faculty Development