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Direct linkR. Sirkko; K. Sutela; M. Takala – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Providing quality education for all pupils requires cooperation from members of the entire school community. One group of professionals is school assistants, who, together with teachers, play an important role in supporting pupils and inclusive education. Due to pupils' diverse needs, the responsibilities of school assistants in schools have…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Teaching Assistants, Role Perception, Attitudes
Lemmetty, Soila – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
The importance of "self-directed learning" (SDL) in a business environment has been highlighted as a way to increase an organisation's competitiveness and innovativeness. While organisations increasingly require SDL from employees, less attention is paid to the situations and frames enabling it. This study examines "self-directed…
Descriptors: Employees, Workplace Learning, Personal Autonomy, Self Management
Kaasila, Raimo; Lutovac, Sonja – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Research relationships are often poorly understood. Why are some collaborations between research partners more productive than others? This question was a starting point of this paper. By describing their own experiences over a period of three years, the authors evaluated research relationships through collaborative self-study. At the beginning,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Research Projects, Research Administration, Cultural Differences
Vesala, Hannu T.; Vesala, Kari Mikko – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
The farmers' role within the EU has recently been under reconstruction: in addition to primary agricultural production farmers should fulfill multiple functions such as maintaining the rural landscape, conserving nature and providing services. One essential feature of this new role is the demand for entrepreneurship. Farmers should be capable of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Entrepreneurship, Researchers, Foreign Countries
Garraway, James Windsor – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Academic curriculum and curricular units that are responsive to work necessarily involve the interaction of knowledge from two different communities. In this paper a number of cases of responsive curriculum are analysed in order to answer the following questions: Can general differences between work and academic knowledge be ascribed to the nature…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Education Work Relationship, Case Studies
Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Bassanini, Andrea; Duval, Romain – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD countries over the period 1982-2003. In the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Macroeconomics, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Lehtonen, Jaakko – 1990
The issue of the expansion of international interaction and cultural stereotypes, and their effect on the levels of communicative competence and the willingness to participate in international cooperation is addressed. One specific form of national stereotype, the reflected autostereotype, is described. An examination of reflected autostereotyping…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships, Foreign Countries, International Communication
Peer reviewedHaavio-Mannila, Elina – Journal of Social Issues, 1972
Compares two surveys of attitudes toward the emancipation of women, one taken in 1966 among residents of small towns, the capital city, and rural communities; and the other taken in 1970 as a part of the Finnish Gallup Poll. (JM)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Employed Women, Family Attitudes, Females
Leino, Jarkko – 1984
This six-part pamphlet examines 87 Finnish principals' personalities in terms of leadership and cognitive styles. The study's purpose is noted in section 1. Section 2 analyzes pedagogical roles and behaviors from a normative dimension perspective. Section 3 shifts to the personal dimension in discussing styles, values, and vocational preferences.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Style
Download full textOjanen, Sinikka – 1995
This paper discusses the challenges facing teacher education programs to produce highly sensitive student teachers who are motivated to reflect on their own work, to develop during the preservice process and later as teachers within the professional frame of reference, and to capture a coherent picture of the course of professional development.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Puurula, Arja; Lofstrom, Erika – 2003
This paper describes a study of the development of professional identity among employees in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) participating in large-scale company-wide training programs. Managers and employees in 175 SMEs in Finland participated. These two research questions were posed: (1) are there differences in the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adult Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Competence
Peer reviewedVerkasalo, Markku; And Others – Educational Psychology, 1996
Summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to Finnish high school students and their teachers. They were asked values-oriented questions and then asked how they thought an ideal pupil would answer the same. Reveals distinct differences between teachers' and students' concept of an ideal pupil. (MJP)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
