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Roosa Yli-Pietilä; T. Soini; J. Pietarinen; K. Pyhältö – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Teachers with strong professional agency (TPA) in the classroom make efforts to constantly learn and develop their teaching practices. The aim of the present study is to identify teachers' different TPA development profiles and their association with experiencing burnout symptoms and abilities to use proactive strategies in regulating well-being.…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Profiles, Time, Burnout
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Sommarström, Kaarina; Oikkonen, Elena; Pihkala, Timo – Education Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the utilization of the opportunities offered by teacher and school autonomy in entrepreneurship education with companies involved. The research question was: How do schools and teachers use their autonomy in the implementation of entrepreneurship education? This research question was complemented by two…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Curriculum Implementation, National Curriculum
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Viro, Elina; Lehtonen, Daranee; Joutsenlahti, Jorma; Tahvanainen, Ville – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
In order to thrive in today's uncertain environment, there is a need to master 21st century skills as well as knowledge of key subjects. Project-based learning (PBL) has been recommended as an important instructional strategy to prepare students for their future work and life. As teachers play an important role in classroom instructional practice,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects, 21st Century Skills
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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
Kanth, Rajeev Kumar; Laakso, Mikko-Jussi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
In this study, we explore the possibilities of utilizing and implementing an e-Education platform for Indian school-level curricula. This study will demonstrate how the e-Education platform provides a positive result to the students' learning and how this tool helps in managing the overall teaching processes efficiently. Before describing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Environmental Education
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Ronkko, Marja-Leena; Mommo, Sanna; Aerila, Juli-Anna – Design and Technology Education, 2016
The Finnish curriculum for crafts emphasises the creative problem-solving skills of the student, the completion of different design tasks and the implementation of designs, while seeking to nurture the student's self-esteem. Furthermore, students should draw up the designs for their artefacts, plan their work, and also develop designs when needed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Design Crafts, Teaching Methods
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Räisänen, Sari; Korkeamäki, Riitta-Liisa – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This study investigated the first author's process of implementing new literacy practices as a teacher in a Finnish first-grade classroom from a poststructuralist perspective by using nexus analysis (NA). We concentrated on two essential concepts in NA, Bourdieu's habitus and Goffman's interaction order, which we linked to Grundy's curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Elementary Education, Grade 1
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Haataja, Anne; Ahtola, Annarilla; Poskiparta, Elisa; Salmivalli, Christina – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
The present study provides a person-centered view on teachers' adherence to the KiVa antibullying curriculum over a school year. Factor mixture modeling was used to examine how teachers (N = 282) differed in their implementation profiles and multinomial logistic regression was used to identify factors related to these profiles. On the basis of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Curriculum Implementation, Fidelity, Profiles
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Korkeamaki, Riitta-Liisa; Dreher, Mariam Jean – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
In 2004 the Finnish National Board of Education launched a new curriculum framework that includes principles, instructional aims, and a brief list of content by subject areas. The intent of this framework is that teachers should interpret the core curriculum at the local level and apply it in their own schools and classrooms. This approach…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Emergent Literacy, Grade 2, Foreign Countries