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AUTHOR
Kirsi Pyhältö
Yhtenäisyyttä rakentava peruskoulu – yhtenäisen perusopetuksen ehdot ja mahdollisuudet
Koulu ja perusopetus ovat toiveiden, vaateiden ja odotusten myllerryskenttä. Koulun ja perusopetuksen kehittäminen on myös keskeinen tulevaisuuden haasteisiin vastaamisen keino. Lapselle ja nuorelle koulu näyttäytyy puolestaan arkisina kohtaamisina, joissa vertaisryhmän ja aikuisten maailma lomittuu ja usein myös törmää toisiinsa. Tässä teoksessa raportoitu tutkimus on tarttunut uusimpaan suomalaisen peruskoulun uudistukseen: yhtenäisen perusopetuksen kehittämiseen. Yhtenäistä perusopetusta tarkastellaan kirjassa koulun kehittämisen pedagogisena ja yhteisöllisenä haasteena. Tutkimushankkeen tarkoituksena on ollut ymmärrettävän kuvan luominen suomalaista perusopetusta päivittäin toteuttavist…
Setting Individual Goals for Pupils with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities : Engaging in the Activity Area-Based Curriculum Making
The activity area-based curriculum model (AACM) is used in the Finnish basic education to support pupils—most of whom have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD)—who could benefit more from skills that advance independent life coping. Existing studies have concentrated mainly on the Individual Education Plan (IEP) goal-setting process for pupils with milder disabilities than PIMD and have consistently demonstrated significant barriers in the process. This study explores the collaborative IEP goal-setting process for pupils with the AACM. Sixty-five Finnish special education teachers using the AACM participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were analysed with thema…
Setting individual goals for pupils with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities—engaging in the activity area-based curriculum making
The activity area-based curriculum model (AACM) is used in the Finnish basic education to support pupils—most of whom have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD)— who could benefit more from skills that advance independent life coping. Existing studies have concentrated mainly on the Individual Education Plan (IEP) goal-setting process for pupils with milder disabilities than PIMD and have consistently demonstrated significant barriers in the process. This study explores the collaborative IEP goal-setting process for pupils with the AACM. Sixty-five Finnish special education teachers using the AACM participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were analysed with them…
Student teachers’ feelings of anxiety and exhaustion: can self-regulated learning skills function as an antidote?
ABSTRACTThis study examines first-year student teachers’ (N = 310) self-evaluated, study-related anxiety and exhaustion, and self-regulated learning (SRL) skills. Our presumption is that feelings o...
Building coherence and impact : differences in Finnish school level curriculum making
AbstractThe study aims to gain a better understanding on how curriculum making regulated by reform’s implementation strategy contributes to teachers’ and teacher communities perceived curriculum coherence, and further to the impact that reform has on school development. The two-level path modelling was utilised for analysing clustered data including the 75 schools and 1556 individual teachers from these schools during the most recent Finnish core curriculum reform. The results showed that the participatory strategy, including balancing the steering and transformative dialogue, seemed to be crucial both for promoting the individual teacher’s and professional communities’ shared capacity to p…
Is individual- and school-level teacher burnout reduced by proactive strategies?
There is provisional evidence that burnout may be contagious within professional communities via the crossover effect, referring to an inter-individual transmission of stress or strain. However, our understanding of effective means for tackling stressors is scarce. We tested a two-level path model to explore the interrelation between teachers’ proactive self- and co-regulative strategies and experienced burnout. The study sample comprised 1531 Finnish in-service teachers from 75 schools. The results showed that burnout symptoms varied both between individual teachers and between professional communities. Self- and co-regulative strategies serve partly different functions in regulating teach…