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Lais Oliveira Leite; Sari Havu-Nuutinen; Erkko Sointu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Understanding how student teacher professional agency (STPA) develops during teacher education is crucial for educators and curriculum developers interested in strengthening it. To explore this process comprehensively, environmental factors (i.e., curriculum coherence between theory and practice and the learning environment) and individual factors…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Student Teachers, Professional Identity, Teacher Education
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Thuneberg, Helena; Salmi, Hannu; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina; Hienonen, Ninja; Hautamäki, Jarkko – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
This study responds to the demands of the rapidly changing landscape of education, the 21st century competencies and development of curriculum. Those competences are being interpreted all over the world resulting to differing curricular changes. In the Finnish National Core Curriculum 2016 they are presented as seven transversal competences that…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, National Curriculum
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Ann Kristin Bjørnnes; Hennie Skaufel; Malin Holmström Rising; Marlene Gädda; Anna-Lena Nieminen; Nina Misvaer; Maria-Louise Bender Monggaard; Katrine Greve Sørensen; Linda Alondere; Asta Butkuviene; Astrid Torbjørnsen – SAGE Open, 2024
This descriptive pilot study investigates and evaluates nursing students' perceptions of their learning gains and the factors contributing to academic integration within a one-week Intensive Programme (IP) course, part of the Nordplus Programme. Nordplus encourages mobility and curriculum development across Nordic and Baltic higher education. The…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Program Length, Nursing Education, Student Attitudes
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Harju, Vilhelmiina; Niemi, Hannele – Teacher Development, 2020
This study investigates principals' viewpoints on the support needs of newly qualified teachers. As pedagogic leaders, principals play a central role in organizing support activities for new teachers at local level and can offer insights into new teachers' situation and support needs. On that basis, the authors investigated how Finnish principals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Faculty Development
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Niemi, Kreeta – Education Inquiry, 2021
Finnish education has recently experienced reforms with respect to guidelines forming the curriculum framework for basic education and school architecture. Since 2016, all new schools incorporate open and flexible design, at least to some extent. The more open school design challenges the conventional organisation of space and pre-defined…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Architecture
Sugrue, Ciaran, Ed.; Day, Christopher, Ed. – 2002
This volume presents a selection of the 200 papers given at the 1999 biennial conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching. The theme of the conference was "Teachers and Teaching: Revisioning Policy and Practice for the Twenty-First Century." The 15 papers are: (1) "Teaching in a Box: Emotional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research