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Stolp, Eveliina; Moate, Josephine; Saarikallio, Suvi; Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
The agency of primary school students has been studied increasingly in recent years; yet, we know relatively little about student agency in music educational settings or how students experience their participation in joint musical action. This study explores sixth-grade students' experiences of their agency in whole-class playing. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Music Education, Personal Autonomy, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Harju-Autti, Raisa; Mäkinen, Marita; Rättyä, Kaisu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article explores the language learning experiences of four recently arrived adolescent plurilingual immigrant students who participated in additional structured linguistic support (SLS) in lower secondary education. The SLS was targeted at creating scaffolding for students who were learning both the language of schooling and the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Attitudes, Finno Ugric Languages, Second Language Learning
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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study investigates how 6- to 7-year-old children in a bilingual preschool together with their teachers take on the challenge of translating the lyrics to a children's song from Finnish to English. With an interest in how translation activities can engage children in communication and metacommunication, and facilitate the development of…
Descriptors: Singing, Metalinguistics, Translation, Bilingualism
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Vartiainen, Henriikka; Leinonen, Teemu; Nissinen, Saara – Educational Media International, 2019
Connected learning is claimed to support children to connect their formal learning with wider social network and media tools in an interest-driven and inquiry-oriented manner. In a formal context there are few successful implementations of connected learning. This study explores how a kindergarten community of 8 adults and 42 children, equipped…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Networks, Social Media, Sociocultural Patterns
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Virkkula, Esa – British Journal of Music Education, 2016
This article examines the sociocultural learning of popular and jazz music in communities of practice as part of secondary vocational music education in a Finnish conservatory. The research is based on performance workshops which were implemented as a joint effort between professional musicians and music students. These workshops are suggested as…
Descriptors: Music Education, Communities of Practice, Music, Popular Culture