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Afdal, Hilde Wagsas; Maaranen, Katriina – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article explores how teachers in Finland, Norway, and the United States reflect on their professional space for decision-making when planning. Various planning activities are at the core of teaching practice, and contextual factors are also at play. Teachers' reflections on decision-making when planning might therefore be expected to vary.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Reflective Teaching, Educational Planning
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Kaasila, Raimo; Lauriala, Anneli – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Reflective practice represents a central theme in teacher education. The focus of this study is to look at pre-service teachers' reflection processes and their breadth and depth in four different contexts. Our research data consist of 53 pre-service teachers' mathematics portfolios, from which three were selected for closer scrutiny. The chosen…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Reflective Teaching, Mathematics Instruction
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Maaranen, Katriina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Finnish teacher education has been higher academic education since 1979. Thus, all primary school teachers graduate as Masters and they conduct an MA thesis. For this research 23 teachers were interviewed in order to determine their conceptions of reflection, teacher research and their future research intentions. These teacher students worked…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Teacher Researchers, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Virta, Arja – Intercultural Education, 2009
This paper examines prospective history teachers' thinking about ethnic and cultural diversity and their experiences of learning to teach about history in multicultural classrooms. The paper reviews the findings of a follow-up study of 22 Finnish student teachers during their nine-month teacher education programme. The data consist of…
Descriptors: Assignments, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Cultural Pluralism
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Rose, Jane – Language Teaching Research, 2007
This paper reports on a study into course relevance conducted using some of the principles of Exploratory Practice (EP). I wanted to gain an understanding about how relevant the students taking my English courses perceived them to be in terms of their own lives. I also hoped to resolve some of the tensions experienced due to the differences in…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching, Second Language Learning
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Krokfors, Leena; Jyrhama, Riitta; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Toom, Auli; Maaranen, Katriina; Kansanen, Pertti – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2006
This paper examines the context of teacher education in which certain students work as teachers whilst at the same time they study in a teacher education programme. The two phenomena that are discussed are the integration of theory and practice, and learning while working. These are located in the wider framework of teachers' pedagogical thinking,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Theory Practice Relationship, Student Teachers