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Kurczewska, Agnieszka; Kyrö, Paula; Lagus, Krista; Kohonen, Oskar; Lindh-Knuutila, Tiina – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: Although the role of reflections in entrepreneurship education is undeniable, the research has focused mainly on their advantages and consequences for learning process, whereas their dynamics and interrelations with other mental processes remain unexplored. The purpose of this paper is to better understand how personality and intelligence…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Learning Processes, Personality, Intelligence
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Zettinig, Peter; Aleem, Majid; Majdenic, Danijela; Berry, Michael – Journal of Management Education, 2022
Graduates of international business (IB) programs are facing a complex dynamic world in which they need both specific and generalist knowledge they can activate in socially negotiated situations. Their competencies must go beyond narrowly applying knowledge, which requires open minds, transferable social competencies, and skills for crossing…
Descriptors: International Trade, Work Environment, Interpersonal Competence, Job Skills
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Jokinen, Päivi; Murris, Karin – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
This paper explores an inhuman reading of 'hands' with/in visual images of a Finnish literacy lesson. Inspired by Karen Barad's agential realism and the ontological turn, we disrupt a metaphysics of presence, the temporality of progress and binary logic, to reconfigure the child in literacy practices as a sympoietic phenomenon, always already…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Metacognition
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Kallio, Heli; Kallio, Manne; Virta, Kalle; Iiskala, Tuike; Hotulainen, Risto – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Teachers' support concerning learners' metacognitive awareness (MA) is crucial in learning. Previous research has focused mainly on students' MA. Therefore, this study describes how subject teachers and special teachers (N = 1,045) perceive how they support learners' MA in general education and in vocational education and training. The main…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Metacognition, Vocational Education
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Kallio, Heli; Virta, Kalle; Kallio, Manne – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Metacognitive awareness consists of two components, i.e. regulation of cognition and knowledge of cognition. In earlier studies self-evaluation is aligned as a subcomponent of regulation of cognition. However, in this study we point out that self-evaluation does not actually regulate the ongoing or forthcoming process but it is a tool used to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Models, Vocational Education
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Iiskala, Tuike; Volet, Simone; Lehtinen, Erno; Vauras, Marja – Frontline Learning Research, 2015
The significance of socially shared metacognitive regulation (SSMR) in collaborative learning is gaining momentum. To date, however, there is still a paucity of research of how SSMR is manifested in asynchronous computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), and hardly any systematic investigation of SSMR's functions and evolution across…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cooperative Learning, Learning Processes, Case Studies
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Vilppu, Henna; Mikkila-Erdmann, Mirjamaija; Ahopelto, Ilona – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The aim of the study was to investigate the role of regulation and processing strategies in understanding science text. A total of 91 student teachers answered open-ended questions concerning photosynthesis before and after reading either a traditional or a refutational science text. After this, they also answered parts of the Inventory of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Processes, Science Instruction, Role
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Postholm, May Britt – Educational Research, 2012
Background and purpose: The article reviews studies that focus on the professional development of teachers after they have completed their basic teacher training. Teacher professional development is defined as teachers' learning: how they learn to learn and how they apply their knowledge in practice to support pupils' learning. The research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Learning Processes, Faculty Development
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Pihlainen-Bednarik, Kaisa; Keinonen, Tuula – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2011
Knowing "what do I know" and thinking about "how do I learn", that is metacognition, is an important element in learning. The Finnish curriculum points out metacognition in the choice of the studying methods. The methods should help the students to become aware of their own learning, to develop better learning strategies, and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Learning Processes
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Ketamo, Harri; Kiili, Kristian – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2010
In spite of increased interest in game-based learning, relatively little is known about the learning process in games. The aim of this article is to study the process of conceptual change in the context of game-based learning in order to reveal playing behavior that triggers and facilitates it. Primary school pupils (N = 401) played a game of…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Educational Games, Models, Metacognition
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Karlsson, Leena; Kjisik, Felicity; Nordlund, Joan – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This article describes a programme of autonomous language learning (ALMS) introduced at Helsinki University Language Centre in 1994. The programme was developed to encourage students to become actively involved in their own learning in terms of deciding what they need and wish to learn, setting goals and objectives, achieving these objectives, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Berry, John; Sahlberg, Pasi – Learning and Instruction, 1996
A research project using an instrument designed to allow teachers to investigate their students' ideas about learning found that the ideas of 193 English and Finnish adolescents about learning were varied, without clear understanding of how they learned. Finnish students seemed to depend more on their teachers than did English students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis, Epistemology
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Snellman, Leila; Raty, Hannu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1995
Utilizes questionnaires to examine Carugati and Mugny's assertion that social representations of intelligence are organized both by social identity and unfamiliarity. Discovers a consensus concerning representations of intelligence organized by social identity. Includes a copy of the questionnaire, breakdown of the responses, and other statistical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
Ojanen, Sinikka – 1996
This paper discusses the need for the renewal of teacher education programs in Finland in order to bring practicing professionals into contact with new knowledge and ideas. To inject new knowledge requires a theoretical understanding of the mechanism of professional change and the process of evaluating professional development. The central factor…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education