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Direct linkTikkanen, Lotta; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
Sustainable school development is suggested to result in both meaningful learning and enhanced well-being for those involved in the reform work. The aim of the study was to gain a better understanding of the relations between the strategies utilised in school development work, school impact of the reform and burdening in the context of curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, National Curriculum
Sullanmaa, Jenni; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: Shared understandings of curriculum reform within and between the levels of the educational system are suggested to be crucial for the reform to take root. The purpose of this paper is to explore variation in perceived curriculum coherence and school impact among state- and district-level stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Differences, Stakeholders, Attitudes, School Effectiveness
Sullanmaa, Jenni; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne – Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
Teachers play a key role in transforming the national curriculum reform into classroom practice. This study explored individual variation in Finnish teachers' (N = 901) perceptions of curriculum coherence during a one-year follow-up during the early stages of its implementation in schools. Latent profile analysis revealed five distinctive…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation, Foreign Countries
Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Improving Schools, 2018
Curriculum reform that has an effect on the everyday practices in schools always entails translation of new ideas into new educational practices. This takes place primarily through shared sense making. However, our understanding of the different ways in which shared sense making is carried out is still scarce. In Finland, the district level plays…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, School Districts, Board of Education Role
Primary Determinants of a Large-Scale Curriculum Reform: National Board Administrators' Perspectives
Tikkanen, Lotta; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of how national board administrators, more precisely, officials at the Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) have perceived the primary influencing factors, or "regulators", of the national core curriculum reform and the success of the implementation. The alignment…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Performance Factors, National Curriculum
Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Soini, Tiina – Curriculum Journal, 2017
The study aims to gain a better understanding of the national large-scale curriculum process in terms of the used implementation strategies, the function of the reform, and the curriculum coherence perceived by the stakeholders accountable in constructing the national core curriculum in Finland. A large body of school reform literature has shown…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Strategies
