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Georgios Miaris; Sara Löfgren; Helena Hansson – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to uncover the values that underlie farmers' strategic choices for business development. In particular, we uncovered farmers' values related to business development through farm diversification and compared these with values regarding business development through non-diversified farm activities. Methodology: We considered…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Decision Making
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Muzakkir; Zaharah Hussin; Rafiza Abdul Razak – Education 3-13, 2024
Teachers' beliefs about teaching character values are pivotal in cultivating students' character. This study systematically reviewed teachers' beliefs towards character education in primary school. A systematic review following the PRISMA statement was applied to peer-reviewed papers published between 2011 and 2021. This review paper analyzed…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Values Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Rämgård, Margareta; Forsgren, Annika; Avery, Helen – Educational Action Research, 2017
The study draws on findings from a series of seven participatory action research projects in community care for older people carried out over a period of eight years in 20 municipalities in southern Sweden. The analysis here looks at social impact across administrative levels and geographical scales. Different professional groups and care workers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Medical Research, Health Services
Shiohira, Kelly – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Artificial intelligence has produced new teaching and learning solutions that are now undergoing testing in different contexts. In addition to its impact on the education sector, AI is substantially altering labour markets, industrial services, agriculture processes, value chains and the organization of workplaces in particular. Technical and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Skill Development, Vocational Education
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Anderstaf, Susanna; Lecusay, Robert; Nilsson, Monica – Intercultural Education, 2021
The research presented in this paper explores how preschool teachers in Sweden negotiate tensions stemming from perceived cultural dilemmas among themselves, the children they work with, and the children´s parents or guardians. The aim in characterising this process of negotiation is to expand knowledge about how to adapt pedagogically to the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Values
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Peterson, Tiina; Veisson, Marika; Hujala, Eeva; Härkönen, Ulla; Sandberg, Anette; Johansson, Inge; Bakosi, Eva Kovacsne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The current study investigated the ratings of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Hungarian preschool teachers and principals regarding the professionalism of preschool teachers within a cross-cultural context. According to reports commissioned by the European Commission and OECD, the professionalism of preschool teachers is a key factor in ensuring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professionalism, Principals
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Garrison, Jim; Östman, Leif; Håkansson, Michael – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Our paper addresses the emergence and evolution of values in educational settings. It builds upon and extends earlier work on companion meanings to develop a theory of the creative use of companion values and meanings in education. The recognition of companion values in educational practices highlight epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Values, Sustainable Development
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Andersson, Per; Hellgren, Mattias; Köpsén, Susanne – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2018
Context: Teachers in vocational education and training (VET teachers) have specific conditions for their continuing professional development (CPD). They have a background in an initial occupation, in which they now teach and train the next generation. Thus, as VET teachers, they are expected to master the knowledge and skills of that occupation,…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education, Faculty Development
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Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Eriksson, Martin; Rundgren, Shu-Nu Chang – Science & Education, 2016
This study aims to explore students' argumentation and decision-making relating to an authentic socioscientific issue (SSI)--the problem of environmental toxins in fish from the Baltic Sea. A multi-disciplinary instructional module, designed in order to develop students' skills to argue about complex SSI, was successfully tested. Seven science…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Secondary School Students
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Hofman-Bergholm, Maria – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2018
In numerous UN policy documents, a sustainable future through education is set in a key position; the UNESCO Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (UNESCO, 2018) is no exception. Therefore, it is of great importance to examine and report how different UN member countries work towards the implementation of sustainability…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Attitude Change
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Wilkinson, Shaun; Littlefair, David; Barlow-Meade, Linda – European Physical Education Review, 2013
In sport, schools and physical education (PE) ability has invariably been understood as an inherent and relatively immutable capacity, amendable to varying degrees by interventions such as training regimes and education. Differences in achievement are assumed to be an inevitable consequence of natural variations in ability and an indication of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Ability, Student Attitudes
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Parding, Karolina; Abrahamsson, Lena – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The aim of this article is to challenge the concept of "the learning organization" as unproblematic and inherently good. Design/methodology/approach: The research looked at how teachers--as an example of public sector professionals in a work organization that claims to be a learning organization--view their conditions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Conditions
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Christie, Michael; Carey, Michael; Robertson, Ann; Grainger, Peter – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2015
This paper elaborates on a number of key criticisms of Mezirow's transformative learning theory as well as providing arguments that validate it. Our paper exemplifies how Mezirow's theory can help adult educators and prospective school teachers understand that social structures and belief systems can influence student learning, that learners make…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Females, Doctoral Degrees
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Natalle, Elizabeth J. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This case study of an American professor's teaching experience in Sweden analyzes classroom communication using relational dialectics theory and cultural values theory. Tensions of hierarchy vs. equality and autonomy vs. connection were described through classroom processes such as greeting practices, dress, grading, attendance, gendered language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, North Americans, College Faculty, Personal Autonomy
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Polk, Merritt; Knutsson, Per – Environmental Education Research, 2008
Given the complexity of current social structures and environmental problems, attaining a truly sustainable society seems rather improbable today. Not only has society not been planned for the complexity of the preconditions and effects that sustainability entails, sustainability is also unlikely given current individual consumption patterns,…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Change, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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