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Virta, Jukka; Hökkä, Päivi; Eteläpelto, Anneli; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – European Physical Education Review, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the significance of informal learning contexts in physical education (PE) student teachers' professional identity construction. It addressed two research questions: How do informal learning contexts contribute to the construction of PE student teachers' professional identity? What forms of relationships can be…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Physical Education Teachers, Student Teachers, Professional Identity
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Viivi Korpela; Laura Pajula; Riitta Hänninen – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Despite widespread digitalization, certain marginal and societal groups can still encounter challenges in the digital world. Promoting digital inclusion and digital support aims to reduce these disparities and enable equal participation. In this article, we examine the quality and dynamics of informal learning and digital support provided by warm…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Older Adults, Technological Literacy
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Kason Ka Ching Cheung – Research in Science Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effects of epistemological beliefs about science and informal reading of scientific texts on students' future-oriented optimism on the issue of climate change. Future-oriented climate change optimism is defined as encompassing "hope" and "anticipation" about the climate…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Sanna Ryynänen – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: This study considers the pedagogical dimensions of an event concept ]that combined participatory theatre and social scientific research to approach questions relating to ethnic relations and racism. The article aims to establish, with the help of a practical case example, the notion of public social pedagogy. Approach: Ethnographic…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Educational Research, Informal Education, Critical Theory
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Ella Suortti; Sari Havu-Nuutinen; Sirpa Kärkkäinen – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
Science capital consists of science-related cultural and social capital and science-related behaviours and practices. This study aims to clarify the core dimensions of science capital among Finnish parents through consideration of how parents' educational degree, profession, age and residential area are associated with their science capital. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Sciences, Cultural Capital
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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
European Training Foundation, 2023
Qualifications frameworks are tools for describing qualifications of an education or training system by classifying them into levels. Each level provides a clear description of what the holder of a qualification knows, understands and is able to do. They are important tools for making qualifications transparent and comprehensible, within and…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Programs, Nonformal Education
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Schurz, Alexandra; Sundqvist, Pia – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Today, we globally observe a sharp increase in learners' engagement in extramural (out-of-class) English (EE; Sundqvist 2009). This undoubtedly affords new opportunities for, but also challenges to, English language teaching (ELT) and learning. To our knowledge, this study is the first to explore this topic from a cross-national perspective. Upper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
European Training Foundation, 2023
Qualifications frameworks are tools for describing qualifications of an education or training system by classifying them into levels. Each level provides a clear description of what the holder of a qualification knows, understands and is able to do. They are important tools for making qualifications transparent and comprehensible, within and…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Programs, Nonformal Education
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Anna Kuoppamäki; Fanny Vilmilä – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
This study explores young people's arts participation through music-making in Finland and the factors that may regulate that participation. It seeks to understand the construction of active modes of arts participation in and through adolescents' musical life courses. The interview study was conducted with young people (N = 18) participating in…
Descriptors: Music, Musicians, Music Education, Access to Education
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Turja, Tuuli – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: In a best-case scenario, both organisations and their employees gain from technological changes by staying up to date on developing digitalisation. However, opportunities to learn and use modern technologies may not be shared equally in the workplace. Employee groups can be divided between those with and without access to new…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computer Attitudes, Work Environment, Health Personnel
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2019
Validation and guidance help individuals, organisations and Member States adapt to career challenges and create successful lifelong learning systems. However, little is known about how they are linked in practice and how this connection can be made more efficient. Building on Cedefop's expertise in the two areas, this study -- based on analysis of…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Foreign Countries
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Elina Viro – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
The article focuses on study visits from the perspective of mathematical project work. Project work means a systematic organizing method of teaching that is based around a project. The research questions are the kinds of study visits students made, the meaning(s) of those visits, the mathematical content in the visits and how such study visits…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Course Content
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Tuomi, Pauliina; Multisilta, Jari Antero; Saarikoski, Petri; Suominen, Jaakko – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Digitalization is one of the most promising ways to increase productivity in the public sector and is needed to reform the economy by creating new innovation related jobs. The implementation of digital services requires problem solving, design skills, logical thinking, an understanding of how computers and networks operate, and programming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coding, Programming, Computer Science Education
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Malinen, Antti; Laine-Frigren, Tuomas; Kaarninen, Mervi – History of Education, 2022
During the Second World War, Nordic countries witnessed a large-scale displacement of the population as around 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to other Nordic countries. While up to 15,000 of them did not return to Finland, the majority travelled back, carrying multiple ruptures in their close relationships: first from their biological…
Descriptors: War, Novels, Childrens Literature, Parents
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