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Aadland, Torgeir; Aaboen, Lise – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
The future engineer is labelled an entrepreneurial engineer, having networking, teamwork, opportunity recognition, creativity, risk management, and discipline-specific skills. Therefore, entrepreneurship education is being increasingly introduced in engineering education. The various educational designs used to introduce entrepreneurship education…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Engineering Education, Authentic Learning, 21st Century Skills
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Kurt, Berker – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The purpose of this research is to set the characteristics of the contents of the course books that are prepared for the lessons of mother tongue education in secondary schools in different countries. Within the frame of the purpose, the content of the course books in Germany, Austria, Finland, Northern Macedonia, Hungary and Turkey were analyzed…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Native Language Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Hansen, Petteri; Sivesind, Kirsten; Thostrup, Rune – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study focuses on the politics of time in education by analysing 'The Future School' reports published by Nordic state authorities between 2010 and 2015. Building on a system-theoretical understanding of social time, steering and second-order observations, we investigate how temporal political communication frames the future of Nordic basic…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Politics of Education, Reports, Time
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Yoon, Junghyun; Rönnlund, Maria – Education Inquiry, 2021
Drawing on a cross-cultural, qualitative study in Finnish and Korean comprehensive schools, we explore how teacher control and student agency are manifested and exercised in the teaching and learning practices of the "official school" and in the student-teacher interactions of the "informal school". We also elaborate on how…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Personal Autonomy, Learning Processes
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Tammenga-Helmantel, Marjon; Maijala, Minna – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Communicative language teaching and language teaching research suggest forms for desirable and effective grammar teaching. This study investigates to what extent these suggestions are integrated into teaching materials. On the basis of prior studies, we developed a list of both qualitative and quantitative criteria to determine the position of…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Role
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Xia, Belle Selene – Journal of Learning Design, 2017
Previous research has shown that, despite the importance of programming education, there is limited research done on programming education experiences from the students' point of view and the need to do so is strong. By understanding the student behaviour, their learning styles, their expectation and motivation to learn, the quality of teaching…
Descriptors: Programming, Higher Education, Educational Theories, Student Centered Learning
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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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Pekkarinen, Virve; Hirsto, Laura – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
In this paper, we investigate university lecturers' experiences of and reflections on the development of their pedagogical competency during a 9-month university pedagogical course. The effects of long-term university pedagogical training are considered through experienced pedagogical competency by analysing university lecturers' evaluations of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Competencies, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Questionnaires
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Korhonen, Maija; Komulainen, Katri; Räty, Hannu; Mattanen, Johanna; Hirva, Laura – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
Research on entrepreneurship education (EE) has not discussed the comprehensive school's traditional discourse of abilities and the related aim of categorising pupils according to their "natural" talents. It has also neglected pupils' perceptions of entrepreneurial abilities; however, these perceptions are important for understanding the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Talent
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Blomster, Jaanika; Venn, Stephen; Virtanen, Viivi – Higher Education Studies, 2014
This study aims to determine whether bioscience teachers and researchers in a research-intensive university have consistent views on research-based teaching, and to evaluate whether teachers' conceptions and views on practical teaching methods are aligned. Fifty-eight teachers completed a questionnaire concerning conceptions and practices of…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Science Teachers, Research Universities, Teacher Attitudes
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Jeronen, Eila; Jeronen, Juha; Raustia, Hanna – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
The article aims to introduce Environmental Education (EE) in Finland and to discuss how it has been taken into account in Finnish nature schools. Firstly, we present EE models used in Finland. Thereafter we describe a qualitative case study on EE in nature schools (NS). The aim of the study was to get information for the development of EE. The…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Compulsory Education
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Laakso, Mikko-Jussi; Myller, Niko; Korhonen, Ari – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
In this paper, two emerging learning and teaching methods have been studied: collaboration in concert with algorithm visualization. When visualizations have been employed in collaborative learning, collaboration introduces new challenges for the visualization tools. In addition, new theories are needed to guide the development and research of the…
Descriptors: Visualization, Teaching Methods, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Komulainen, Erkki, Ed.; Kansanen, Pertti, Ed. – 1981
Three papers exploring facets of the teaching process are presented in this report. The papers are part of the Didactic Process Analysis (DPA) Helsinki research project. The DPA research team, composed of educators investigating instructional processes, has, since 1967, examined taxonomies and classifications of teaching processes. The first…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Decision Making
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection