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Lemmetty, Soila; Collin, Kaija – Adult Learning, 2023
Adult's self-direction and self-directed learning (SDL) have become topics in the discussion of work-related adult learning and an autonomous approach, emphasizing responsibility and independence, has received increasing attention in studies of learning. In the context of SDL, in contrast, the importance of the learning environment and community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Workplace Learning, Independent Study, Social Environment
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Yaiza Lucas Revilla; Raija Raittila; Eija Sevon; Niina Rutanen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
For those experiencing them, educational transitions include not only the present time but are embedded within institutions that precede and extend beyond the individuals. This article explores how, as an institutional space, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting is (re)produced within young children's encounters with others during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Infants, Toddlers
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Tessitore, Matthew – Environmental Education Research, 2023
UNESCO has indicated the need for more research to test the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD). This study analyzes how ESD is included in the Finnish national core curriculum and examines four environmental indicators to determine if a correlation exists between ESD and a cleaner physical environment in Finland. The…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, National Curriculum
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Yrjö Engeström; Pauliina Rantavuori; Piia Ruutu; Maria Tapola-Haapala – Educational Review, 2024
The article explores developmental tensions in Finnish adolescents' accounts of their different worlds. By understanding tensions experienced by students, educators can develop their pedagogical practices to address those tensions. Building on cultural-historical activity theory, we analysed 12 interviews of 8th graders, focusing on their…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Peer Influence
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Wenqian Xu; Lotta Aavikko; Eija Kärnä; Honglin Chen; Muzawir Arief; Andreas Motel-Klingebiel; Ning An – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of Higher Education, necessitating a rapid shift from in-person to remote teaching and learning. This study investigates the experiences of doctoral students in an online Sino-Nordic summer school on aging, implemented during the pandemic. A survey was conducted to collect and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students
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Aada Heikkilä; Jyrki Reunamo – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This quantitative study examines the connection between the years that children spent in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and their social orientations and main objects of attention. The data were collected within the Progressive Feedback project by observing children: 20,457 observations of 972 six-year-olds from 360 child groups in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
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Luka Viera – Journal of School Health, 2024
BACKGROUND: The emergence of COVID-19 resulted in a substantial loss of education because of global school closures. Face masks are a potential measure to restrain the COVID-19 spread; therefore, this paper evaluated the effectiveness of face masks in reducing COVID-19 incidence in school settings. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
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Kokko, Anna Kristiina; Hirsto, Laura – Learning Environments Research, 2021
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the change from physical spaces to learning environments by examining how, and through which processes, learning spaces are transformed, produced and developed. For this purpose, we used a comparative ethnography approach and collected observation material from two Finnish schools at…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Space Utilization, School Space
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Hartikainen, Susanna; Pylväs, Laura; Nokelainen, Petri – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The engineering education field has concentrated more on rationality and knowledge than on emotions, even though the latter are important in students' learning processes and in the engineering profession. This study examined engineering students' descriptions of the roles of teaching in their perceived emotions. A qualitative thematic analysis was…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Social Cognition, Emotional Response
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Sze Wah Chan; Sanni Pöysä; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen; Eija Pakarinen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigated the relation between teachers' occupational well-being and the quality of teacher-student interactions in lower secondary schools in Finland. Teachers (N = 48) self-rated their occupational well-being in terms of engagement, stress, job demands, and emotional exhaustion. Teacher-student interactions in classrooms were…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being, Correlation, Secondary School Teachers
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Orit Ben Zvi Assaraf; Vaille Dawson; Efrat Eilam; Tuba Gokpinar; Daphne Goldman; Nofar Naugauker; Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri; Agung Wijaya Subiantoro; Sakari Tolppanen; Peta White; Helen Widdop Quinton; Justin Dillon – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Climate change (CC) is the most significant global issue facing humanity, yet research addressing the perspectives of the key players influential in developing and implementing school-based CC curricula at a cross-country national level is scarce. This study examined the perceptions of policymakers, teacher professional development providers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education
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Enni-Mari Ylikörkkö; Satu Karjalainen; Anna-Maija Puroila – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This article focuses on child participation in early childhood education (ECE). The theoretical basis for this study is a relational approach that highlights the significance of spatiality and materiality. Drawing from these theoretical perspectives, child participation is understood as a space that children actively do in various combinations of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries
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Marthe Berg Andresen Reffhaug; Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Critical thinking as a concept, has a rich history and is central to much of the debate within international educational research and increasingly within environmental and sustainability education (ESE). Currently, it is gaining a foothold in the curriculum and in practice in Nordic countries. However, to date, there has been no proper account of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Foreign Countries
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Yada, Takumi; Savolainen, Hannu – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
The importance of collective teacher efficacy (CTE) has been increasingly emphasised, but few studies have focused on how it can be enhanced. Since CTE is assumed to be related to factors that differ between schools, the belief-shaping sources of CTE could be related to principals' beliefs of their efficacy. Moreover, a school climate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Self Efficacy, Educational Environment
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Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized by pre-defined cutoff values of students' achievement level and their social background. A threat to the validity of such arbitrary operationalizations is that students around the cutoff values may be misclassified. The main objective of the current study is to apply a…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Disadvantaged Youth
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