It has been indicated that teachers' emotions about climate change and their views on mitigation influence their instruction and students' engagement in mitigation actions. The aim of the study is to explore Finnish secondary geography teachers' emotions about the consequences of climate change, their strategies for coping with these emotions, and…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to bridge the theoretical perspectives of workplace learning and teacher learning. Teacher learning takes place, for example, in the course of a teacher's work as well as in the institutional setting of a school. This article describes research conducted on such learning. Design/methodology/approach: The…

Profiles Finnish government employees--10 percent of the Finnish labor force. Describes preservice and inservice training and the effect of such trends as use of technology, transfer of activity from the private to the public sector, and European unification. (SK)

A selection of original texts is presented as well as extracts from conference reports and other publications in an attempt to provide a wide range of views by home economists working in different sectors of the educational spectrum and widely differing geographical settings. Chapter 1, Concepts of Home Economics Education, includes essays on home…

Discusses a study on the development of adult education in industry. Concludes that the impact of technological development on the development of working life adult education is not as great as it has often been said to be. (JOW)