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Direct linkIeva Grumbinaite; Flávia Colus; Hugo Buitrago Carvajal – European Union, 2025
This study report on the outcomes and transformational potential of the European Universities initiative presents the progress, achievements, and transformational potential of the European Universities initiative, and gives insights on remaining challenges. It provides recommendations to continue making the European Universities initiative a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Peer reviewedN. Rosenblad; B. Schaffar; E. Löfström – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
The ambiguous policy-concepts 'effectivity' and 'needs' were introduced to Finnish VET. This research utilises cultural historical activity theory to analyse how different conflicting motives emerge within student counselling and to discuss the prospective development of VET. Managerialist approaches to accountability and competency-based training…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, School Counseling, Goal Orientation
Merja Viljanen; Elina Kuusisto – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This mixed methods study examines life purposes of Finnish adolescents (N = 843) at the end of their basic education. Purpose is understood as a long-term intention to accomplish something of meaning to the self, which also contributes to society. The research showed that, despite problem talk about adolescents' mental health, Finnish adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Goal Orientation, Self Concept, Aspiration
Ilmari J. A. Puhakka; Markku Niemivirta; Liisa Postareff; Petri Nokelainen – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate construction workers' learning at work, focusing on their approaches to learning, self-efficacy beliefs and work engagement and how these vary according to their goal orientation profiles. Survey data were collected from Finnish construction sector employees (N = 1,280) in June 2021. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Building Trades, Skilled Workers
Jukka Sivola; Vesa Närhi; Asko Tolvanen; Tuomo Virtanen; Hannu Savolainen – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
The outcomes of studies on the effectiveness of special education (SE) remain unclear. There are only a few studies on the effects of SE that have used advanced methodology to minimise the influence of potential selection bias. This study examined the plausible effects of SE on students' affective and motivational outcomes using a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Affective Behavior, Outcomes of Education, Grade 5
Download full textKatri Olander; Suvi Saarikallio – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2025
This research sought evidence for the claim (Haslam et al., 2009) that supportive "communities" are essential for the building of positive "identity" and feeling of "control" that nurture the social type of resilience. The study investigated the presence of these three elements in an educational context. The data were…
Descriptors: Music Education, Self Concept, Elementary School Students, Trust (Psychology)
