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Bergroth, Mari; Llompart-Esbert, Júlia; Pepiot, Nathalie; Sierens, Sven; Dražnik, Tjaša; Van Der Worp, Karin – Educational Action Research, 2023
This article examines the possibilities and challenges in turning a top-down action research project led by high-level public authorities into a shared and collaborative, multi-site and multi-professional bottom-up action research project. For this purpose, the article explores the initial stages of a European level action research project called…
Descriptors: Action Research, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Olin, Anette; Pörn, Michaela – Educational Action Research, 2023
To what extent can teachers' involvement in knowledge-producing activities be enhanced through collaboration with researchers? This article reports on two teacher-researcher collaborative didactic development projects in Sweden and Finland. By using the theory of practice architectures, the aim is to explore how teachers' knowledge contribution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Researchers, Educational Cooperation
Niemi, Reetta; Loukomies, Anni – Improving Schools, 2021
An in-service training programme was used as an accelerator that scaffolded teachers in four school units in Lappeenranta, Finland, the aim being to find a shared understanding and shared practices, or 'praxis', in terms of promoting student participation. In this study we examine the practices that either supported or prevented participation from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Student Attitudes, Opinions
Bendtsen, Marina; Forsman, Liselott; Björklund, Mikaela – Educational Research, 2022
Background: The question of how best to enable sustainable professional development remains a challenging one. The research reported here is situated within a professional learning communities (PLCs) approach as a long-term goal for continuing professional development (CPD) with action research (AR) principles as a means of organisation. Purpose:…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change
Bendtsen, Marina; Eklund, Gunilla; Forsman, Liselott; Pörn, Michaela – Educational Action Research, 2021
During the last decade, Finnish teacher education (TE) has received special interest due to the Finnish students' success in PISA. Although TE in Finland has many strengths, there are also challenges that need to be addressed. One of the main challenges is the relation between theory and practice. As action research (AR) has been suggested as one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Action Research, Student Projects
Pregmark, Johanna E. – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to discussion around the need for improved models for change in a rapidly changing world. It also aims to provide insights for further discussion around how a Nordic management approach can relate to the need for new change ideas. Since Lewin proposed that change requires unfreezing, moving and refreezing,…
Descriptors: Models, Change Strategies, International Cooperation, Organizations (Groups)
Niemi, Reetta – Educational Action Research, 2019
For decades, teacher research, as one form of action research, has been a research methodology that combines theory, practice and improvement of practices in classrooms. However, the lack of teacher autonomy and trust in their professionalism reduces teachers' opportunities to conduct teacher research in their classrooms in many countries. Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
Jokela, Timo – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
This article introduces the art-based action research (ABAR) methodology as part of the international discussion of art-based educational research (ABER). The participatory and dialogical approach of ABAR was inspired by a consideration of the pressure for change in art education stemming from the practices of relational and dialogical…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Research, Action Research, Participatory Research
Hilli, Charlotta – Educational Action Research, 2020
This paper explores arrangements and conditions enabling and constraining teacher collaboration to extend classrooms through Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). It draws implications from a participatory action research project in three small, rural Finnish schools funded by the European Social Fund (2015-2017). Data were mainly collected…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Distance Education, Videoconferencing, Electronic Learning
Darling-Hammond, Linda – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Definitions of teaching quality differ across jurisdictions and have evolved over time. Drawing on a study of five high-achieving countries with strong supports for teachers' professional learning and practice, this article describes the perspectives on good teaching rooted in standards for entry, preparation, and practice. These nations…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies, Faculty Development
Edwards-Groves, Christine; Kemmis, Stephen – Educational Action Research, 2016
The Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) network is a cross-institutional, collaborative research programme which brings together researchers from Australia, Columbia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Caribbean, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. These researchers are investigating the nature, traditions and conditions of pedagogy, education and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Praxis, Networks, Cooperative Programs
Richardson, Mary; Hernández-Hernández, Fernando; Hiltunen, Mirja; Moura, Anabela; Fulková, Marie; King, Fiona; Collins, Fiona M. – London Review of Education, 2020
Across Europe, educational institutions are essential in assisting exploration of politics, culture and history, and the use of creative arts appears crucial to supporting this aim. This article reports on Creative Connections, a multi-partner research project that facilitated exchanges for young people to explore their European identities using…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Concept, Program Descriptions, Anxiety
Heikkinen, Hannu M. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: In this article I will give an example of a linguistic program I have been doing with sixth form college students from Finland and the Netherland and link this action research to the meaning of drama education, and of the potential of devised drama as a part of civic Education. Method: I will explain the theory of devised drama, then I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Drama, Citizenship Education
Rissanen, Antti; Saastamoinen, Kalle – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2021
The National Defense University (NDU) trains officers to develop their academic and professional skills. To accomplish this, the university offers two mandatory courses on methodological training for military technology students for master level education. The first course was theoretically oriented, and the second course was practically oriented.…
Descriptors: Universities, Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Mathematics Skills
Puroila, Anna-Maija; Haho, Annu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This article employs a narrative approach to explore educators' moral functioning in Finnish preschools. Our study is theoretically inspired by notions drawn from feminist and sociocultural studies, according to which education is understood as an entirely moral phenomenon. Within a holistic framework, moral functioning is understood as a concept…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Feminism