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Speechlessness, Anxiety, and Confusion in a Teacher Education Student Group
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Räihä, Pekka; Moilanen, Pentti; Dobozy, Eva; Saukkonen, Sakari – Teaching Education, 2018
The aim of the study was to explore the tensions, as experienced by student teachers, in a teacher education program that is based on psychodynamic theory. Previous research shows that students have had orientation problems in innovative university studies because it involves students having to take steps toward their discomfort zone. It was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Interviews, Anxiety
Reproducing, Disrupting and Reforming Understanding of Cultural Diversity: Theorising Future Subject Teachers' Pedagogical Reflections
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Niemi, Pia-Maria; Hahl, Kaisa – Teaching Education, 2019
Despite the growing demands for carrying out intercultural education as part of all teaching and learning, little attention has been given to the ways in which future subject teachers understand the meaning of 'cultural diversity' and how teacher education programmes prepare future teachers to consider intercultural aims in education. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Student Teachers
Investigating Finnish Teacher Educators' Views on Research-Based Teacher Education
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Krokfors, Leena; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Stenberg, Katariina; Toom, Auli; Maaranen, Katriina; Jyrhama, Riitta; Byman, Reijo; Kansanen, Pertti – Teaching Education, 2011
In this article, we examine teacher educators' views on research-based teacher education. Finnish research-based teacher education has four characteristics: (1) the study programme is structured according to a systematic analysis of education; (2) all teaching is based on research; (3) activities are organized in such a way that students can…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, Investigations, Foreign Countries
Mind the Gap. Combining Theory and Practice in a Field Experience
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Turunen, Tuija A.; Tuovila, Seija – Teaching Education, 2012
In this article, we describe a collegial case study conducted in one Finnish university during the last field experience in a primary school teacher education program and discuss pedagogy of supervision from university supervisors' perspectives. The aim of the study was to clarify the role of university supervisors and try out a collegial…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Education Programs, Experiential Learning, Language Skills