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Sairanen, Heidi; Kumpulainen, K.; Kajamaa, A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This paper investigates adult-child interaction in the early years of education. The intention is to understand how children's initiatives and practitioners' responses support and/or hinder children's agency. Our ethnographic data include 150 h of video data supplemented by observational field notes from a Finnish Early Childhood Education (ECE)…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Ethnography, Video Technology, Early Childhood Education
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Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Kajamaa, Anu – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
This study investigates the sociomaterial movements of student engagement in a school's makerspace. Here, we understand sociomaterial movements as emergent and relational, comprising complex dynamics of agency across students, teachers and materials in situated, culturally framed activities. Our study draws on data comprising 85 hours of video…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, STEM Education, Art Education, Video Technology
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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
In this empirical study, we analyse how five-year-old children are socialised into particular interpretive practices indicative of a literate mind. The data come from translation activities where children with their teacher listen to and then talk about how to understand the lyrics to a popular children's song. The setting is a Finnish-Swedish…
Descriptors: Socialization, Translation, Immersion Programs, Finno Ugric Languages
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Paavola-Ruotsalainen, Leila; Lehtosaari, Jaana; Palomäki, Josefina; Tervo, Immi – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Maternal responsive and directive speech to children at ages 0;10 and 2;0 was investigated by applying a procedure frst introduced by Flynn and Masur (2007) to a new language community (Finnish). The issues examined were consistency and stability over time, and also the role of responsiveness and directiveness in child linguistic development at…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Prediction
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Zachrisen, Berit – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016
Developing a sense of belonging and experiences about the value of community are important democratic values that children may learn during play in preschool. Through the different ways that teachers' interact with children during play, children can learn about democratic values. This study is part of a Nordic project on values education in early…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Play, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Bjorklund, Camilla – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2010
The aim of this study is to analyse and discuss those strategies for learning that are essential for toddlers' development of an understanding of basic aspects of mathematics. Analysis focuses on authentic episodes where toddlers aged one to three are interacting with other people. The settings chosen for the qualitative analysis emanate from a…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Qualitative Research, Toddlers, Mathematics Achievement
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Koskela, Inka; Palukka, Hannele – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to identify methods of guidance and supervision used in air traffic control training. It also aims to show how these methods facilitate trainee participation in core work activities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper applies the tools of conversation analysis and ethnomethodology to explore the ways in which trainers…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Simulation
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Vehvilainen, Sanna – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The paper focuses on a routine activity of academic supervision: Giving and receiving feedback based on the student's master's thesis manuscript. Two case analyses are presented on fundamentally critical feedback. Such feedback constitutes a recommendation to the student to seriously rethink the thesis, but there are various interactional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Research Problems, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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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
Koskenniemi, Matti; Komulainen, Erkki – 1974
The research reported in this document represents efforts to search for the structure and dynamics of the instructional process itself. Without reliable knowledge of these basic facts, improvement of teacher education and the guidance of teachers would remain based on unsystematic experiences and speculation. In order to penetrate the structure…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Research, Instruction, Interaction Process Analysis
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Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Komulainen, Erkki – 1970
The reliability of coding problems associated with observation studies is discussed. The purpose is two-fold: a) to examine coding reliability by applying the profile method to two coding occasions separated by a lengthy time interval with the object of determining both within-occasion reliability (agreement) and between-occasion reliability…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Codification, Content Analysis
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Lipponen, L.; Rahikainen, M.; Hakkarainen, K.; Palonen, T. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002
This study analyzed how students and teachers of one Finnish elementary class participated in and communicated through the Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environment (CSILE) during 1997-1998. The density of the interaction within class, students' participation rates, students' position in the CSILE mediated network of interaction, and the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Distance Education
Engestrom, Yrjo – 1992
The four studies presented show how expertise, from the cultural-historical theory of activity, is constructed interactively in everyday problem situations. They also demonstrate that purely situational analyses of discourse are insufficient as attempts to explain expertise. The four studies are presented as individual chapters: (1) Expertise as…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Court Judges
Holopainen, Pentti – 1972
The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the nature of group work through a series of thirteen video taped classroom lessons for fourth grade students. Using a case approach technique, the emphasis was on methodological problems. The study showed that even the investigation of a single mode of instruction such as group work is a highly…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Classification, Grade 4
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