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Direct linkRiikka Kess; Jóhanna Einarsdóttir – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
The aim of the study is to deepen understanding of educators' daily practices in the Northern ECEC through the lenses of culturally responsive teaching. The research material consists of two-staged peer interviews with 10 educators, which were selected from the whole research material for detailed analysis. The main finding of this study is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Equal Education, Student Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education
Lijuan Wang; Katri Jokikokko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study adopts a sociocultural approach to examine the language socialisation of a lower age novice-newcomer recently arrived in a Finnish open day care centre. A mixed method approach combining ethnographic analysis and quantitative analysis has been used to analyse video-recordings. The results suggest that when educators recognise language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Child Care Centers, Second Language Learning
Arvola, Outi; Pankakoski, Kaisa; Reunamo, Jyrki; Kyttälä, Minna – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Children with non-Finnish cultural or linguistic background face challenges to interact socially in the early childhood education (ECE) context in Finland. The present study aims to clarify (1) what kind of social roles children typically have in ECE, and (2) what sort of activities and play are typical to children with Finnish and non-Finnish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Language Usage
Mustonen, Sanna – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
This article discusses raciolinguistic ideologies in the Finnish educational context. Ethnographic interviews and observational data gathered during 2015-2020 from two young males who came to Finland from the Middle-East in autumn 2015 as unaccompanied minors were analysed applying the small stories approach. The research questions were: 1) What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Bias, Language Usage, Student Diversity
Noorani, Sogol; Baïdak, Nathalie; Krémó, Anita; Riiheläinen, Jari – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2019
This Eurydice Brief presents the main findings of the Eurydice report "Integrating Students from Migrant Backgrounds into Schools in Europe: National Policies and Measures," published in January 2019 and produced under the auspices of the European Commission. The information is based on existing top-level regulations and recommendations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Public Policy, Educational Policy
Hummelstedt-Djedou, Ida; Zilliacus, Harriet; Holm, Gunilla – Multicultural Education Review, 2018
The necessity to include multicultural education policies and practices in schools and teacher education has been widely recognized both in Finland and internationally. However, terms such as 'multiculturalism' and 'multicultural education' have contested and vague meanings in educational discourse. This paper investigates discourses on…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis
Zilliacus, Harriet – Intercultural Education, 2013
The Finnish education system recognizes religious plurality by offering education in pupils' own religion or in secular ethics. However, little research has been undertaken on how plurality is addressed in classroom practice. This study investigates how 31 minority religion and secular ethics teachers view the task of supporting and including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Religious Factors, Religious Cultural Groups
Rissanen, Inkeri – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
The challenges of contemporary multicultural societies have resulted in changing aims for religious education and the necessity to adjust teacher education accordingly. The processes of negotiation related to the coexistence of different religious and cultural groups are intertwined in the Finnish curriculum for religious education. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islamic Culture, Islam, Religious Education
Leppisaari, Irja; Herrington, Jan; Vainio, Leena; Im, Yeonwook – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2013
The implementation of authentic learning elements at education institutions in five countries, eight online courses in total, is examined in this paper. The International Virtual Benchmarking Project (2009-2010) applied the elements of authentic learning developed by Herrington and Oliver (2000) as criteria to evaluate authenticity. Twelve…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Benchmarking, Online Courses, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
