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Implementing Curricula that Depend on Teacher Professionalism: Finnish Preschool and Early Childhood Core Curricula and Literacy-Related Practices
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Korkeamaki, Riitta-Liisa; Dreher, Mariam Jean – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
Finland recently adopted two national core curricula that apply to kindergartens (ages one through six). An early childhood education and care curriculum outlines expectations for children under seven (when school starts), while a preschool curriculum establishes guidelines specifically for six-year-olds. Both curricula describe broad principles,…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Children, Foreign Countries
Decontextualizing Teachers' Knowledge: Finnish Didactics and Teacher Education Curricula during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Simola, Hannu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Analyzes didactics as the hard core of Finnish pedagogic discourse and relates changes in the state educational discourse in Finland to recent developments in department-level curricula in teacher education at Finnish universities in the 1980s and 1990s. The tendency in Finland has been toward a decontextualized and nonhistorical science of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Didacticism, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice: International Research Perspectives.
Sugrue, Ciaran, Ed.; Day, Christopher, Ed. – 2002
This volume presents a selection of the 200 papers given at the 1999 biennial conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching. The theme of the conference was "Teachers and Teaching: Revisioning Policy and Practice for the Twenty-First Century." The 15 papers are: (1) "Teaching in a Box: Emotional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research