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Atas, Ufuk; Daloglu, Aysegül; Hildén, Raili K. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
The professional development of teacher educators has received global interest worldwide following the notion that teacher educators are profoundly responsible for teacher education quality. Still, research on teacher educator professional development is scarce in Finland and under-researched in Turkey. In this article, the authors examine how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Teacher Role, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Raili Hilden; Anne Dragemark-Oscarson; Ali Yildirim; Birgitta Fröjdendahl – Cogent Education, 2024
The objective of this study is to expand teachers' knowledge base of assessment in teaching by exploring pre-service language teachers' construct of grading literacy during their pedagogical studies and immediately after. We conceptualize pre-service language teachers' grading literacy with a literature-based flow model of decision-making…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Grading, Foreign Countries
Jegstad, Kirsti Marie; Fiskum, Tove Anita; Aspfors, Jessica; Eklund, Gunilla – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In the Nordic countries, teacher education programmes are shifting towards a research-based design, thus placing new expectations and requirements on teacher educators. In this study, we aim to explore teacher educators' understanding of professional knowledge in research-based teacher education. We interviewed 16 Norwegian and six Finnish teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Evidence Based Practice, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Ninnu Kotilainen; Marjatta Takala – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study investigated special education teachers' (SETs) work in Finnish lower secondary schools. We wanted to determine what is included in the work and what kind of knowhow is needed to manage it in the contexts of inclusion and the three-tiered support system. Our data consisted of 63 SETs' answers to an e-questionnaire. Using content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Role
Lotta Jons; John Airey – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
This study reports findings from an interview study with eleven teacher educators from a physics teacher training program in Finland. They represented the four training environments that students encounter during their education, i.e. the Department of Physics, the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, the Department of General…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education
Shruthi Venkatesh Reddy; Anna-Leena Kähkönen; Josephine Moate – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2024
Teachers are increasingly expected to incorporate Project-based learning (PBL) pedagogy to teach science. While teachers' definitions and challenges in the use of PBL are widely studied, very few studies focus on the development of a teacher's knowledge of the use of PBL over multiple projects. The current research is an in-depth case study aimed…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Mapping, Critical Incidents Method
Takala, Marjatta; Pihlaja, Päivi; Viljamaa, Elina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Finland is committed to inclusive education as many other countries too. In this study, we examined Finnish student teachers' attitudes towards inclusion using an electronic questionnaire. In total, 277 students participated. The open responses were studied as various teacher students', class, subject or special education students' narratives of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Niemelä, Mikko – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
Curriculum integration has recently stirred growing interest in educational discourses. New Finnish core curricula for basic education and for general upper secondary schools encourage and even obligate schools to integrate the curriculum. Integration has been deemed to be important, as the boundaries between school subjects have remained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Integrated Curriculum, Student Teachers
Cai, Jinghong; Gut, Dianne – Teaching Education, 2020
The purpose of our study is to delve into the education gap between the United States and some countries by examining the literacy and digital problem-solving skills of American educators, and comparing their performance with that of their peers from Canada, Finland, and Japan. We use PIAAC data collected by the Organization for Economic…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Problem Solving, 21st Century Skills
Lavonen, Jari; Mahlamäki-Kultanen, Seija; Vahtivuori-Hänninen, Sanna; Mikkola, Armi – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2020
This paper describes a collaborative design for the Finnish Teacher Education Development Programme in a decentralized education system where teachers, schools, municipalities and universities have high autonomy. The development programme was designed by 70 experts from the universities and stakeholders. The research outcomes related to teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Design, Teacher Education Programs, Student Educational Objectives
Nousiainen, Maija; Hyytinen, Heidi; Palmgren, Elina; Toom, Auli – Education Sciences, 2019
Supporting teacher candidates' learning of coherent and well-ordered content knowledge is one of the most important educational aims in subject teacher education. To reach this aim, teacher educators need suitable tools to enhance the formation of such knowledge. In this article, we present an analytical framework to examine conceptual knowledge,…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Physics, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Stewart, Vivien – Educational Leadership, 2018
In many countries, just as in the United States, the pressure is on to raise the quality of the teaching force; the bar is being raised for what teachers should be able to do. Drawing on her experiences organizing the International Summit on the Teaching Profession and leading delegations of educators to various nations, Stewart describes how some…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Change Strategies
Hordern, Jim; Tatto, Maria Teresa – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
This paper scrutinises the educational knowledge requirements of craft, technical, and reflective professional conceptions of teaching, as recently outlined by Winch, Oancea, and Orchard. Drawing on Bernsteinian sociology of knowledge we identify the different requirements each conception makes of educational knowledge, and how it is envisaged…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Education
Toom, Auli; Tiilikainen, Mikko; Heikonen, Lauri; Leijen, Äli; Mena, Juanjo; Husu, Jukka – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This study investigated student teachers' (N = 82) learning of action-oriented knowledge (AOK), triggering incidents in teaching practice, and the relationships between these two. Student teacher's action-oriented knowledge is understood as core capability for the practice of teaching, and learning of action-oriented knowledge needs to be…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Critical Incidents Method, Preservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Darling-Hammond, Linda – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Definitions of teaching quality differ across jurisdictions and have evolved over time. Drawing on a study of five high-achieving countries with strong supports for teachers' professional learning and practice, this article describes the perspectives on good teaching rooted in standards for entry, preparation, and practice. These nations…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies, Faculty Development