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Räihä, Pekka; Moilanen, Pentti; Dobozy, Eva; Saukkonen, Sakari – Teaching Education, 2018
The aim of the study was to explore the tensions, as experienced by student teachers, in a teacher education program that is based on psychodynamic theory. Previous research shows that students have had orientation problems in innovative university studies because it involves students having to take steps toward their discomfort zone. It was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Interviews, Anxiety
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Nygren-Landgärds, Christina; Elo, Janne; Landgärds, Ida; Engelholm, Margita – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
External organizations offer schools projects with different content, so-called external school projects. This type of external projects is mainly implemented by people or an organization outside of the school. The projects may be within the framework of a nation's political aspirations. The educational goals of the projects are often…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Interviews, School Community Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Kupila, Päivi; Ukkonen-Mikkola, Tuulikki; Rantala, Kyllikki – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This study examines how interpretations of mentoring by trainee mentors (TMs) changed over the course of a mentor training programme, and how this contributed to the TMs' professional development. The context of the study was a mentor training programme for preschool teachers who mentor early childhood teacher students during their practicums.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Training, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Teachers
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Jäppinen, Aini-Kristiina; Leclerc, Martine; Tubin, Dorit – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Professional learning communities (PLC) have been widely accepted as effective with respect to good atmosphere, adequate leadership practices, and functional working practices. However, the outcomes for school improvement depend on case-specific issues. To identify less culturally and contextually bound issues in 3 PLC settings in Canada, Finland,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Communities of Practice, Cooperation
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Kaihlavirta, Auri; Isomöttönen, Ville; Kärkkäinen, Tommi – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This paper provides a self-ethnographic investigation of a continuing education program in engineering in Central Finland. The program was initiated as a response to local economic structural change, in order to offer re-education possibilities for a higher educated workforce currently under unemployment threat. We encountered considerable…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Investigations, Continuing Education, Engineering Education
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Haapala, H. L.; Hirvensalo, M. H.; Laine, K.; Laakso, L.; Hakonen, H.; Lintunen, T.; Tammelin, T. H. – Health Education Research, 2014
The national Finnish Schools on the Move programme support schools with their individual plans to promote school-based physical activity (PA). We examined the changes in adolescents' recess and overall PA in four lower secondary schools and described the school actions to promote students' PA and the local contact persons' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Physical Activity Level, Recess Breaks
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Nevanen, Saila; Juvonen, Antti; Ruismäki, Heikki – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
More than 98 percent of children in Finland attend preschool, where different kinds of projects are carried out in order to strengthen the children's abilities. This article focuses on the effects of one arts education project from a school readiness point of view. The main question was, How did the Helsinki arts education project affect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness
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Rahikainen, Katariina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate Finnish high school students' and teachers' perceptions of the effects of short-term Nordic study abroad programs in which they had participated. The data presented were based on a "mixed-methods strategy." The data set consisted of responses from 158 students and 92 teachers to a specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Haapakorpi, Arja – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
In Finland, quality assurance related to the Bologna process has been adapted to existing systems of higher education at the national level and a form of implementation is also recognised at the level of the higher education institution. In universities, varied outcomes of quality assurance are based on interaction of organisational structures,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Leinonen, Piritta; Bluemink, Johanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: Evaluation of the knowledge that is shared among team members has been found to be a prerequisite for successful collaborative teamwork. In previous research on collaborative learning and work, shared knowledge has mainly been evaluated by researchers, and an individual's own perspective has been omitted. In this study the aim was to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Program Effectiveness, Teamwork, Interviews
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Dominguinhos, Pedro Miguel Calado; Carvalho, Luisa Margarida Cagica – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training programmes targeting post-graduate students. Design/methodology/approach: The approach takes the form of a case study of an entrepreneurship training programme, to assess its effectiveness. For this purpose the paper concentrates on the number of firms…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Graduate Students, Labor Market, Program Effectiveness
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Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Aksela, Maija; Meisalo, Veijo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This paper analyses the use of various communication channels in science teachers' professional development project aiming to develop versatile uses for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in science teaching. A teacher network was created specifically for this project, and the researchers facilitated three forms of communication…
Descriptors: Interaction, Science Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Harslof, Ivan – Journal of Youth Studies, 2005
Young unemployed persons are a prioritised group in active labour market programmes. Such programmes can be regarded as "integrative", facilitating integration into the labour market for young people in accordance with their own preferences. However, such programmes can also be regarded as "defensive", discouraging young…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Youth