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Direct linkR. Sirkko; K. Sutela; M. Takala – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Providing quality education for all pupils requires cooperation from members of the entire school community. One group of professionals is school assistants, who, together with teachers, play an important role in supporting pupils and inclusive education. Due to pupils' diverse needs, the responsibilities of school assistants in schools have…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Teaching Assistants, Role Perception, Attitudes
Lemmetty, Soila – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
The importance of "self-directed learning" (SDL) in a business environment has been highlighted as a way to increase an organisation's competitiveness and innovativeness. While organisations increasingly require SDL from employees, less attention is paid to the situations and frames enabling it. This study examines "self-directed…
Descriptors: Employees, Workplace Learning, Personal Autonomy, Self Management
Kaasila, Raimo; Lutovac, Sonja – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Research relationships are often poorly understood. Why are some collaborations between research partners more productive than others? This question was a starting point of this paper. By describing their own experiences over a period of three years, the authors evaluated research relationships through collaborative self-study. At the beginning,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Research Projects, Research Administration, Cultural Differences
Vesala, Hannu T.; Vesala, Kari Mikko – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
The farmers' role within the EU has recently been under reconstruction: in addition to primary agricultural production farmers should fulfill multiple functions such as maintaining the rural landscape, conserving nature and providing services. One essential feature of this new role is the demand for entrepreneurship. Farmers should be capable of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Entrepreneurship, Researchers, Foreign Countries
Garraway, James Windsor – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Academic curriculum and curricular units that are responsive to work necessarily involve the interaction of knowledge from two different communities. In this paper a number of cases of responsive curriculum are analysed in order to answer the following questions: Can general differences between work and academic knowledge be ascribed to the nature…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Education Work Relationship, Case Studies
Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Peer reviewedVerkasalo, Markku; And Others – Educational Psychology, 1996
Summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to Finnish high school students and their teachers. They were asked values-oriented questions and then asked how they thought an ideal pupil would answer the same. Reveals distinct differences between teachers' and students' concept of an ideal pupil. (MJP)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
