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Direct linkSaara Loukola – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of this article is to contribute to the under-researched topic of racism in Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) by posing three questions: What kind of racism do ECEC teachers recognize in ECEC? How are teachers committed to opposing racism in their work? What kind of obstacles to committing to antiracism are recognized in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Olin, Anette; Pörn, Michaela – Educational Action Research, 2023
To what extent can teachers' involvement in knowledge-producing activities be enhanced through collaboration with researchers? This article reports on two teacher-researcher collaborative didactic development projects in Sweden and Finland. By using the theory of practice architectures, the aim is to explore how teachers' knowledge contribution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Researchers, Educational Cooperation
Sari Lipponen; Kenneth Eklund; Marja-Leena Laakso; Merja Koivula; Kerttu Huttunen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators' roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Game Based Learning
Laura Ketonen; Sami Lehesvuori; Sanni Pöysä; Eija Pakarinen; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
The present study compares the feedback themes that groups of teachers (n = 5) and student teachers (n = 15) discussed in a professional development programme concerning teachers' classroom interaction and formative assessment, and the agents they assigned the feedback to. The results of the thematic analysis show little variation with the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Personal Autonomy, Feedback (Response), Student Teacher Attitudes
Tirri, Kirsi – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
According to Kohlberg, a moral teacher is an independent moral agent capable of addressing moral dilemmas based on general principles of justice. In addition to moral reasoning, teachers require competencies in moral sensitivity, moral motivation, and the implementation of morality. In the current period of global transition, moral sensitivity in…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Ethics, Social Change
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
Tiina Korhonen; Sorella Karme; Johanna Airaksinen; Noora Laakso; Laura Salo – Cogent Education, 2024
In this study, we examined educational change and teachers' continuous learning from the perspective of teachers' transformative agency within the context of digitalization. We also examined the transformative needs of teachers participating in a specialization program related to digitalization and educational change, as well as experiences and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Teacher Education
Nygård, Tuula; Hirvonen, Noora; Räisänen, Sari; Korkeamäki, Riitta-Liisa – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2022
This article describes how Finnish health education teachers reflect on their views of multiliteracy and the instructional practices they used to implement it. Narrative interviews were conducted among eight junior high school and high school teachers. Nexus analysis was used to guide the analysis on the teachers' views and practices. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Junior High School Teachers, High School Teachers
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
Ho, Soi Kei; Gan, Zhengdong – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This comparative study investigated the associations between instructional practices and students' reading performance among 10 top performing regions that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018. A nationally representative sample consisting of 80,016 15-year-old students from 5 Asian regions (B-S-J-Z [China],…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Paloniemi, Annukka; Pulkkinen, Jonna; Kärnä, Eija; Björn, Piia Maria – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study investigated primary school special education teachers' (SETs') (N = 283) conceptions on their work descriptions and uses of pedagogical documents after a reform in the national support framework. The respondents of this survey reported working mostly in Tiers 1 and 2 when all their tasks (instruction, consultation, and managerial…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools
Heini Ahonen; Niilo Franska; Tuire Palonen; Hanna Reinius; Netta Tiippana; Kai Hakkarainen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study examined the factors shaping co-teaching within a Finnish primary school's community. The qualitative study was conducted by teacher and principal interviews and teacher surveys. Thematic content analysis revealed five factors establishing the co-teaching practices: providing collegial support, team building, continuous professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Principals
Download full textMai Beilmann; Signe Opermann; Veronika Kalmus; Joyce Vissenberg; Margus Pedaste – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2023
School-home communication is a growing research field in social sciences, particularly in education sciences and communication studies. While previous studies have paid much attention to the importance of school-home interaction in supporting primary academic socialisation and progress of elementary school pupils, the role of teacher-parent…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Technological Literacy
