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Heikkilä, M.; Mankki, V. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
Teachers' agency is an essential factor in understanding and developing pedagogics. The study adds to the previous research by employing a new materialist perspective, highlighting the notion that teachers' agency is not merely a matter of humans, but results from assemblages of both human and nonhuman elements in teaching. The context of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Pihlainen, Kaisa; Turunen, Serja; Melasalmi, Anitta; Koskela, Teija – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Actions to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as emergency remote teaching (ERT), affected the lives of school children, their parents, and schooling in spring 2020. Rapid changes in routines due to lockdown and ERT were challenging, especially for many children with special needs (SEN). This article focuses on parents'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Special Needs Students, Parents
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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Murtonen, Mari; Riekkinen, Jere; Vilppu, Henna; Nguyen, Trang; Nokelainen, Petri – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the factors behind university teachers' ability to implement instructional changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online questionnaire comprised of open-ended and Likert-scale questions was administered to teachers at a Finnish university in April 2020. The sample consisted of 378 university teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Change Strategies, Instruction
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Loima, Jyrki – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2020
The present study compared socio-educational policies and argumentation in Sweden and Finland during Covid-19 pandemic in March-May 2020. Countries were selected, first, due to similar tuition-free basic education, which performed high in global surveys. Second, no pandemic socio-educational research existed from Nordic countries. National…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Case Studies, Educational Policy
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Dindar, Muhterem; Suorsa, Anna; Hermes, Jan; Karppinen, Pasi; Näykki, Piia – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive transformation in K-12 settings towards online education. It is important to explore the factors that facilitate online teaching technology adoption of teachers during the pandemic. The aim of this study was to compare Learning Management System (LMS) acceptance of Finnish K-12 teachers who have been using a…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Expectation
National Center on Education and the Economy, 2020
This year, widespread school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic have required almost all high-performing systems to implement distance learning to ensure that students continue learning. This document summarizes some initial takeaways from their experiences implementing distance learning in primary and secondary schools. Findings show that…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Comparative Education, High Achievement, School Closing