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Direct linkSze Wah Chan; Sanni Pöysä; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen; Eija Pakarinen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigated the relation between teachers' occupational well-being and the quality of teacher-student interactions in lower secondary schools in Finland. Teachers (N = 48) self-rated their occupational well-being in terms of engagement, stress, job demands, and emotional exhaustion. Teacher-student interactions in classrooms were…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being, Correlation, Secondary School Teachers
Orit Ben Zvi Assaraf; Vaille Dawson; Efrat Eilam; Tuba Gokpinar; Daphne Goldman; Nofar Naugauker; Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri; Agung Wijaya Subiantoro; Sakari Tolppanen; Peta White; Helen Widdop Quinton; Justin Dillon – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Climate change (CC) is the most significant global issue facing humanity, yet research addressing the perspectives of the key players influential in developing and implementing school-based CC curricula at a cross-country national level is scarce. This study examined the perceptions of policymakers, teacher professional development providers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education
Penttinen, Viola; Pakarinen, Eija; von Suchodoletz, Antje; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The aim of the present study was to identify profiles of kindergarten teachers based on the observed quality of interactions with the children in their classrooms and to explore possible differences between the profiles in terms of teachers' occupational well-being and teacher and classroom characteristics. Participants were 54…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Student Relationship, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Download full textPiia Kolho; Anu Raappana; Sanna Joensuu-Salo; Timo Pihkala – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Purpose: Vocational education and training (VET) in Finland takes place more and more at workplaces. Hence, the teachers' cooperation with companies has become important. Little research has been done on the teacher's activities in business cooperation and the factors affecting business cooperation. The teacher's decisions and choices are made…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Professional Autonomy
Anna Koski; Mikko Puustinen; Janne Säntti; Jari Salminen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Teacher education in Finland has followed a research-based approach for decades, but the approach has rarely been investigated from the viewpoint of in-service teachers. This study explores how in-service teachers experienced the meaning of educational science, research and theory (ESRT) and how teachers engage with educational research as part of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Work Environment
Saana Mehtälä; Markus Salo; Henri Pirkkalainen – Educational Research, 2024
Background: A wide variety of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is increasingly embedded into numerous facets of everyday life. Young people, in particular, are often viewed as eager and skilful users of new ICTs who have various educational and leisure-related purposes for ICT use. Although school and home lives have traditionally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology, Teacher Attitudes
Hnin Yu Soe; Paul John Edrada Alegado – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
This study aims to assess and examine secondary school teachers' perceptions of school climate and job satisfaction in five diverse countries: Japan, Korea, Finland, the United States of America (USA), and Australia. It explores the impact of school climate on teachers' job satisfaction, a pivotal factor influencing teacher retention, mobility,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Environment
Riikka Alakoski; Anu Laine; Markku S. Hannula – European Journal of Education, 2024
New school buildings are often designed for flexible innovative learning environments (ILEs) to support learning future skills better than before. However, little is known about the relationship between environment and pedagogy. This article examines the relationship between the environment and pedagogy from the perspective of primary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Schools
Sarkio, Katri; Korhonen, Tiina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Learning Environments Research, 2023
School spaces, technologies, and educational activities shape each other reciprocally. This mixed-methods study (i) developed a methodological framework for tracing the interdependence between school spaces, digital instruments, and teachers' practices in their use, and (ii) created practice-based knowledge about the relations of teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Learning Activities
Riikka Suhonen; Antti Rajala; Hannele Cantell; Arto Kallioniemi – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In the context of global crises, the priorities of vocational education and training (VET) need to be reconsidered. VET should educate critically reflective global citizens who are capable of acting to create a more just and sustainable world both in their workplaces and in society at large. This study examines VET teachers' views on addressing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Citizenship Education, World Problems
Teräs, Hanna; Teräs, Marko; Suoranta, Juha – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
Although digitalization has become an everyday phenomenon in higher education (HE), there is still limited understanding on how HE teachers experience the digitalized work environment. In this article we utilize narrative research methodology to share HE teachers' voices, addressing the following questions: What is the lived experience of being a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Work Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Minna Körkkö; Sonja Lutovac – Teaching Education, 2024
A major part of the perplexing instances in teachers' work seem to deal with relationships. However, little is known about the role of social and emotional competence (SEC) in teachers' relationships. This study examined perplexing relational situations through Finnish primary teachers' stories, the strategies that teachers used to manage the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Teachers, Personal Narratives, Peer Relationship
Laiho, Anne; Jauhiainen, Arto; Jauhiainen, Annukka – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
This article contributes to the current discussions on academic teacher identity in universities. In the managerial university and in the context of expanding HE, teaching has become a more complex, more problematised and more managed activity. This article approaches identity as identification on different levels of academic work and asks: What…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Universities
Riikka Sirkko; Marjatta Takala – Education Inquiry, 2024
Due to COVID-19, schools closed in Finland for eight weeks in the spring of 2020, and teaching was conducted using distance education. Teachers used their professional agency to ensure a continuation of their students' learning. This study focuses on the experiences of teachers who taught pupils with intellectual disabilities during the distance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
