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Sanna-Mari Salonen-Hakomäki; Tiina Soini; Janne Pietarinen; Kirsi Pyhältö – Journal of Educational Change, 2024
National-level educational administrators constantly face the question of how to ensure that the basic education system successfully meets complex local, national, international, and global challenges, and what is the best way to initiate and drive systemic changes in education amid such complexity and to create value for society. Studies have…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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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
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Lena Lindenskov – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2023
This article presents part of a larger study on potential relations between democracy and numeracy and mathematics teaching for adults. This study is motivated by the many challenges to democratic institutions and democratic values at local, national and international levels that I have observed in recent years. In this article. I go back to the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Participative Decision Making, Mathematics Instruction, Adult Education
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Hannele Roponen; Elina Fonsén; Tuulikki Ukkonen-Mikkola; Raisa Ahtiainen – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This study examines the social organizational structure of one early childhood education (ECE) center in Finland and the relationship between this structure and the roles and the responsibilities of the members of the organization. Design/methodology/approach: The research is a qualitative case study with ethnographic features. Its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Ethnography
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Elina Fonsén; Vivianne Ruohola; Matshediso R. Modise; Sharon T. Mampane; Nkidi C. Phatudi; Päivi Kupila; Tarja Liinamaa; Hana Awad Mohamed Elhassan – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: This study explores the experiences of early childhood education (ECE) leaders during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, drawing insights from case studies in Finland and South Africa. Theoretical frameworks of contextual and pedagogical leadership inform the understanding of ECE leadership. Aim: The aim is to analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Leadership Responsibility, COVID-19
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Säily, Laura; Huttunen, Rauno; Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Kiilakoski, Tomi; Kujala, Tiina – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
In Finland, curriculum design is allegedly carried out through a deliberative process that involves various stakeholders, interest groups, experts and ordinary citizens. To facilitate participation in curriculum design, online crowdsourcing has been applied. The objective of this study is to explore to what extent the design process of the latest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Mathematics Curriculum
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Motoko Akiba; Soo-yong Byun; Xiaonan Jiang; Kyeongwon Kim; Alex J. Moran – AERA Open, 2023
Teacher accountability reforms implemented around the globe have heightened a sense that teachers are losing the support of policymakers and the general public. To examine the global pattern in teachers' perception of occupational value and identify possible outcomes and predictors, we analyzed the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys
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Raisa Ahtiainen Ed.; Eija Hanhimäki Ed.; Jaana Leinonen Ed.; Mika Risku Ed.; Ann-Sofie Smeds-Nylund Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth coverage of contemporary aspects of leadership in the field of education in Finland. It brings together Finnish scholars to critically explore and discuss leadership in education in the context of the Finnish education system and in relation to international discourses around the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Education, Leadership Styles
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Kämäräinen, Anniina; Eronen, Lasse; Björn, Piia M.; Kärnä, Eija – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This study describes how students initiate and manage transitions between activities during group-work. Audio and video recordings were collected in secondary school mathematics lessons (6 x 75 min) based on student-centred learning and the idea of minimal teacher instruction. In these lessons, the students were given the responsibility to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Peer Relationship, Student Centered Learning, Mathematics Activities
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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
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Heikka, Johanna; Pitkäniemi, H.; Kettukangas, T.; Hyttinen, T. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
The topic of distributed pedagogical leadership has attracted researchers' interest in early childhood education leadership. A growing body of research focuses on investigating leadership enacted between leaders and teachers in ECE settings. In this article, we focus on the enactment of distributed pedagogical leadership in Finnish ECE settings…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership
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Heikkilä, Mia – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
For many years, teachers have been involved in developing the national curricula in Finland in various ways. Teachers' involvement in curriculum design and implementation has, during the last national curriculum implementation process, increased locally to strengthen their confidence in and knowledge of the national curriculum's multifaceted…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Elementary School Teachers, Principals, Administrator Role
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García-Carreño, I. V. – European Educational Researcher, 2021
Distributed Leadership is a conceptual and analytical approach to understanding leadership that is focused on interactions between leaders and those they lead with the goal of driving instructional improvement and improving student outcomes by developing high-quality teaching and an educational culture that enables all students to thrive. This…
Descriptors: Leadership, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Bibliometrics
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Heikka, Johanna E.; Kahila, Sanni K.; Suhonen, Katja K. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Current research on early childhood education (ECE) leadership as well as on policy reform in Finland suggests that pedagogical leadership must be considered as a purposeful and planned process. Pedagogical leadership plans play a key role in the purposeful and effective enactment of pedagogical leadership in ECE settings. Aim: This…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Early Childhood Education, Strategic Planning, Child Care Centers
McGrath, Jason – OECD Publishing, 2023
Co-constructing a long-term sustainable vision on the future of teaching is a policy priority for many countries as society rapidly changes. There is a need to create space in the teacher debate to look forward for inspiration and to learn from contemporary change in other professions, such as the concept of "connective professionalism".…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Sustainability, Teaching (Occupation), Professionalism
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