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Identity, Agency and Community: Reconsidering the Pedagogic Responsibilities of Teacher Education
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Moate, Josephine; Ruohotie-Lyhty, Maria – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2014
This article presents a model for teacher education based on an ongoing action research project at a Finnish university. This model draws on the educational theory of Dewey and the pedagogical sensibility of Bakhtin to critically consider the concepts of teacher identity and agency and to highlight the role of community in teacher development. Our…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Models, Action Research, Foreign Countries
Performance Dialogs Implemented in a Finnish University
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Takala, Marjatta; Keskinen, Soili – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This article analyses performance dialogs (PDs) in the university context in Finland. These are held annually between employers and employees. The study was carried out to assess the efficacy of this technique. Research methods included an electronic questionnaire over two different years delivered to the whole staff of the Department of Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Universities
Are Students Customers in Finnish Higher Education?
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Vuori, Johanna – Tertiary Education and Management, 2013
This study examines Finnish higher education students' perceptions of whether students are customers, based on qualitative interview data. The article contributes to the discussion on students as customers by giving attention to students' own voices from a country where tuition fees are not generally collected. The data are presented and analysed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Interviews, Student Characteristics
Balancing between Inspiration and Exhaustion: PhD Students' Experienced Socio-Psychological Well-Being
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Stubb, J.; Pyhalto, K.; Lonka, K. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2011
This paper explores doctoral students' experiences of their scholarly communities in terms of socio-psychological well-being. Further, the study examines how experiences were related to study engagement and to self-reported stress, exhaustion, and anxiety. Altogether 669 doctoral students from the University of Helsinki, Finland, responded a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
University Evaluations and Different Evaluation Approaches: A Finnish Perspective
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Liuhanen, Anna-Maija – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
Evaluation of higher education can be described a species of its own with only few connections with other fields of evaluation. When considering the future developments in higher education evaluation (quality assurance), it is useful to observe its similarities and differences with various evaluation approaches in other than higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Quality Control
Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education. Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.
Phillipson, Robert, Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers brings together scholarship on language, education, and society from all parts of the world, situating issues of minorities and bilingual education in broader perspectives of human rights, power, and the ecology of language. Part 1, "Language: Its Diversity, its Study, and Our Understandings of It," includes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Civil Liberties, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)