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Furu, Ann-Christin; Heilala, Cecilia – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2021
The purpose of this article is to report on a study exploring the sustainability work (i.e., practices and pedagogies related to sustainability education) of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) teaching practice settings. Recently, the early years and ECEC have gained increasing attention in sustainability education matters.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Elisheba Kiru – International Dialogues on Education, 2023
Globally, there is considerable investment in education technologies leading to increased attention from stakeholders (Trucano, 2017). For a deeper understanding about the implementation of various technologies, research is needed to examine how teachers are incorporating them in teaching and learning. This study focused on eight countries to…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Technology Integration, Information Technology, Teaching Methods
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Sarja, Anneli; Nyman, Tarja; Ito, Harumi; Jaatinen, Riitta – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
The social basis of a teaching profession is created through behavioural and cultural patterns, specific artefacts, and their connection to certain institutional practices. The purpose of this study is to discover the conditions that structure the teaching profession in a cultural context and to find out what it is to be a foreign language (FL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies
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Moate, Josephine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This research draws on sociocultural theories of learning and activity theory to explore the challenges faced by an innovative community of teachers in Central Finland. The aim of the teacher community was to develop a stream of foreign-language (FL)-mediated teaching and learning in the locality from kindergarten to upper secondary level. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Innovation, English (Second Language)