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Places for Young People to Influence Decision-Making: Developing Means for Democracy Education in Finland
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Anna Suorsa – Democracy & Education, 2023
This study examines young people's (ages 13-18) perceptions of their own opportunities to influence the development of their own environment through an experiment aimed at developing civic democracy in Finland in 2020-2021. The purpose of the experiment was to try out new ways of participating and influencing meaningfully for young people at…
Descriptors: Democracy, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Middle-Class Music Making? Social Class, "Race," and Their Intersections in the Practice of School Popular Music
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Koskela, Minja – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2022
This article explores how social class, "race," and their intersections manifest in Finnish popular music education (PME) through an exploration of popular music practices in one upper elementary music classroom where I worked as a teacher-researcher. By engaging with systems reflexivity, I illustrate how social class, racialization, and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Music, Music Education, Democracy
Distributed Leadership in Practice in Finnish Schools
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Lahtero, Tapio Juhani; Lång, Niina; Alava, Jukka – School Leadership & Management, 2017
The aim of this study is to explore what aspects the principals and the members of the management teams in the primary and upper secondary education schools in Vantaa support distributed leadership in their school and how necessary they see that distributed leadership is extended to the students in matters concerning the curriculum and the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries
Child-Initiated Pedagogies in Finland, Estonia and England: Exploring Young Children's Views on Decisions
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Robertson, Leena Helavaara; Kinos, Jarmo; Barbour, Nancy; Pukk, Maarika; Rosqvist, Leif – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This paper focuses on child-initiated pedagogy that is based on the process of co-construction of learning experiences between children, adults and the environment, being part of longitudinal research project that analyses child-initiated pedagogies in formal early years settings with 3-6-year-old children. Drawing on an ethnographic approach this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Childhood Attitudes, Ethnography
Schools for 21st-Century Learners: Strong Leaders, Confident Teachers, Innovative Approaches. International Summit on the Teaching Profession
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Schleicher, Andreas – OECD Publishing, 2015
Successful education systems are those that promote leadership at all levels, thereby encouraging teachers and principals, regardless of the formal positions they occupy, to lead innovation in the classroom, the school and the system as a whole. This report summarises evidence from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey and the OECD…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
How High-Achieving Countries Develop Great Teachers. Research Brief
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Darling-Hammond, Linda; Wei, Ruth Chung; Andree, Alethea – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2010
Research shows that professional learning can have a powerful effect on teacher skills and knowledge, and on how well students learn. To be effective, however, professional learning for teachers needs to be conducted in the ways that it is in many high achieving countries--continuously, collaboratively, and with a focus on teaching specific…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Teacher Collaboration