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Nina Hongell-Ekholm; Monica Londen; Åse Fagerlund – Cogent Education, 2024
Pressure on upper-secondary students to perform well is increasing at the same time as mental health problems are growing. At best, schools should be an arena for both academic work and the acquisition of life skills. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of a positive psychology intervention, named Study with Strength, on self-reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Mental Health
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Koivunen, Tuija – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
This article focuses on work-related self-help books and asks what kinds of promises self-help books make as a reward for change. In work-related self-help guides, the employee is advised not only to change their affects and relation to work but also to inspire others. Thus, the employee is presented as a potential reformer of the work…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Lifelong Learning, Improvement Programs, Books
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Joensuu-Salo, Sanna; Viljamaa, Anmari; Varamäki, Elina – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to contribute to entrepreneurial intention research by examining the theory of planned behavior model in a longitudinal follow-up of the same individuals from a point at which they were studying until six to eight years after graduation and the link between entrepreneurial intention and actual behavior. The objectives of…
Descriptors: Intention, Entrepreneurship, Behavior, Behavior Theories
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Karjalainen, Asko; Nissilä, Säde-Pirkko – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
The aim of this research is to find out how higher education (HE) teachers reflect on the possibilities of personal development and evaluate the institutional promotion of academic teaching in an HE community. The purpose was thus to understand how university employed teachers experienced and reflected on the benefits of their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Individual Development, Teacher Education
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E, Liyuan; Toom, Auli; Sullanmaa, Jenni; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
Professional agency is key for teachers' professional development, for constructing their professional identity, and for promoting student learning. This longitudinal study explored the development of teachers' (N = 201) sense of professional agency in the classroom in the professional transition from early career teachers to more experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Specialists
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Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Zelinka, Jozef – Comparative Education, 2019
In the following article, we share our findings from the comparative analyses of 54 lifelong learning policy measures implemented in nine European countries, with a particular focus on their orientations, objectives, and solutions devised. Informed by the theoretical framework of Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA), we have further reasoned on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Young Adults
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Lövgren, Johan – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
Citizenship education played a crucial role in the 19th century transition from royal sovereignty to democracy in the Nordic region, with folk high schools (FHS) playing an important role. While established to empower the people ("folk") for active participation in society, the contemporary folk high schools have reoriented from their…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Folk Schools, Civil Rights, Educational History
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Salmivaara, Virva; Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
This article describes the implementation and lessons learned from MEGE--Multicultural Encounters, Growth and Entrepreneurship, an educational project aimed at better utilizing the expertise of migrant communities and international professionals in Finland, to foster entrepreneurship among those who migrate or return to the country from abroad.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Partnerships in Education, Expertise, Immigrants
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Sandholm, Ditte; Simonsen, Julia; Ström, Kristina; Fagerlund, Åse – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
Positive education is the teaching of both traditional school skills and skills for enhancing well-being. This study examines teachers' (N = 72) experiences with training in positive education.Qualitative content analysis was used to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiences, and quantitative measures investigated teachers' well-being.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Zhang, Bingbing; Szente, Judit; Levin, Judith – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
The present study explores the experiences of fifteen Early Childhood pre-professionals on a University lead short-term study abroad program to Finland. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of the 10-day-long experience on students' attitudes and perceptions particularly on their professional growth, personal, and cultural gains.…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Cavanagh, Michael; King, Alexis – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of primary pre-service teachers engaged in a peer-group mentoring program during a professional experience placement. Pre-service teachers completed weekly questionnaires and an interview about their experiences. Questionnaire and interview responses were coded and analysed according to three…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Mentors, Preservice Teachers, Standards
Chmielewski, Anna K. – OECD Publishing, 2018
It is well-known that there are large disparities in academic achievement between children of different socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds. This study examines the evolution of disparities in literacy skills between adults of different SES backgrounds. It compares countries' patterns in the evolution of disparities in literacy by SES…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Background, Academic Achievement, Adults
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Uhlenwinkel, Anke; Béneker, Tine; Bladh, Gabriel; Tani, Sirpa; Lambert, David – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
The small-scale research presented in this paper was conducted as part of the GeoCapabilities project. Though originating in the Anglophone world, the project attempts to address the purposes and values of geography education internationally. Using the idea of "powerful disciplinary knowledge" the project asks what geography has to offer…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Poulter, Saila – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
The aim of this paper is to explore the history of Finnish religious education (RE) from the perspective of civic education. The research is based on a historical and content analysis of the data, which consist of written pedagogical and curricular material on Lutheran RE from the last 150 years. The analysis, which employs the Foucauldian concept…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational History, Individualism, Social Environment
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Helms Jørgensen, Christian; Järvinen, Tero; Lundahl, Lisbeth – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
In recent decades, a range of policy measures to support young people's school-to-work transitions has been initiated across Europe. However, these transition policies have rarely been studied systematically, particularly from a comparative perspective. Thus, the aim of this article is to compare Swedish, Danish and Finnish policies for supporting…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Cross Cultural Studies, Classification, Social Responsibility
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