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Ratinen, Ilkka; Sarivaara, Erika; Kuukkanen, Pirjo – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
A reformed national curriculum has introduced transformative and sociocultural learning elements to the Finnish education system. In addition, sustainability and outdoor education remain pressing issues for Finnish educators. We conducted a content analysis of the views of outdoor education held by student teachers enrolled in first-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Outdoor Education
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Sneck, Sirpa; Syväoja, Heidi; Järvelä, Sanna; Tammelin, Tuija – Education Inquiry, 2023
The Moving Maths study was conducted to increase third grade pupils' physical activity and support their learning in Finland. Altogether 397 children (mean age 9.3 years) and 22 teachers took part in an intervention with two types of physically active maths lessons for five months. One group carried out lessons in which PA was integrated into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3, Physical Activity Level
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Braskén, Mats; Pörn, Ray – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Although one of key ideas behind the introduction of STEM (or STEAM) as a unifying concept, is to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of many real world problems, there is a non-trivial educational challenge in exceeding existing subject boundaries and implementing multidisciplinary activities into the classroom. The present case study…
Descriptors: Energy Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Units of Study, Grade 9
Liljeström, Anu; Enkenberg, Jorma; Vanninen, Petteri; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Pöllänen, Sinikka – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper discusses the OpenForest portal and its related multidisciplinary learning project. The OpenForest portal is an open learning environment and ecosystem, in which students can participate in co-developing and co-creating practices. The aim of the OpenForest ecosystem is to create an extensive interactive network of diverse learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Elementary School Students
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Pyhältö, Kirsi; Vekkaila, Jenna; Keskinen, Jenni – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Although supervision has been identified as one of the central determinants of the doctoral experience, there is still an insufficient understanding of the ways in which supervisors and doctoral students perceive supervisory activities. The study focuses on exploring the fit between doctoral students' and supervisors' perceptions of who are…
Descriptors: Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Doctoral Programs, Supervisory Methods, Supervision
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Freihoff, Roland; Takala, Sauli – 1974
Under a contract with the Ministry of Education the working party prepared a general system for describing language teaching objectives to be used in higher education. The system is based on the specification of language use situations. By means of it the course objectives may be described in the form of communicative tasks, which the students are…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Descriptive Linguistics