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Student participation in peer interaction
2021
This study explores how students deal with material resources in their peer interaction when working in pairs in an open-ended problem-solving task. The productive use of material resources can be expected to support successful peer work. However, research into social phenomena in peer interaction is needed in order to identify and describe productive and less productive forms of dealing with material resources as students participate in open-ended problem-solving tasks. Consequently, this explorative study responds to this research need. Based on multimodal data, including video recordings, transcribed talk and the written contributions from four pairs of Year 7 students aged 12-13 years, …
Family related variables effect on later educational outcome: a further geospatial analysis on TIMSS 2015 Finland
2020
AbstractFamily-related factors, like parent’s educational level, their values and expectations have a significant impact on child’s early skills and later educational outcomes. Further, parents provide their child, alongside with other learning environments, a broad mathematical and early literacy input. This study investigates the relationship between family-related socio-economic and other factors like, parental education, amount of books at home, parental attitudes towards mathematics and science, parental perception of child’s early skills and student’s later academic achievement. This is studied in the light of the Finnish data collected for Trends in International Mathematics and Scie…
Motivational sources of practical nursing students at risk of dropping out from vocational education and training
2019
The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the reasons for low or high academic motivation among practical nursing students at risk of dropping out from vocational education and training. The research data consisted of semi-structured interviews with 14 Finnish students, which were analysed by qualitative content analysis. The analysis identified six motivational sources. Two of these sources – Responsible agency and Completing out of necessity – were related to engagement in studying, whereas two other sources – Exhaustion from learning challenges and Tight-roping between competing responsibilities – were related to disengagement from studying. Emotional drive and Soci…
Visual cues improve students’ understanding of divergence and curl: Evidence from eye movements during reading and problem solving
2019
The coordination of multiple external representations is important for learning, but yet a difficult task for students, requiring instructional support. The subject in this study covers a typical relation in physics between abstract mathematical equations (definitions of divergence and curl) and a visual representation (vector field plot). To support the connection across both representations, two instructions with written explanations, equations, and visual representations (differing only in the presence of visual cues) were designed and their impact on students’ performance was tested. We captured students’ eye movements while they processed the written instruction and solved subsequent c…
‘The best guess for the future?’ Teachers’ adaptation to open and flexible learning environments in Finland
2021
Finnish education has recently experienced reforms with respect to guidelines forming the curriculum framework for basic education and school architecture. Since 2016, all new schools incorporate open and flexible design, at least to some extent. The more open school design challenges the conventional organisation of space and pre-defined structures and interaction practices. This study investigates how teachers both adapt and are affected by new demands for pedagogy, team teaching and teacher-student relationships. Interview data of 21 teachers of six modern schools are reviewed through thematic analysis. The new school layouts provided some incongruence with the teachers’ aims and their p…
Chikage Oba-Smidt, The Oral Chronicle of the Boorana in Southern Ethiopia: Modes of Construction and Preservation of History among People without Wri…
2017
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Ideas for using GeoGebra and Origami in Teaching Regular Polyhedrons Lessons
2018
The approach of combining GeoGebra and origami is well accepted among students in the school "Petro Kuzmjak" where it is used to teach geometry lessons. This article elaborates on how to introduce students (upper elementary and high school students, age 14-18) to Platonic solids and their properties through combination of GeoGebra and origami activities. Some of the important mathematical concepts related to these well-known geometrical solids can be explained to students applying hands-on activities along with educational software. peerReviewed
Latvian Translation Scene at the Beginning of the 20th Century
2021
The first decade of the 20th century was a period of huge advances and expansion in the Latvian translation scene. New, contemporary authors’ works became available to Latvian readers. The Latvian readership was consciously being integrated into general European literary trends. It was also a heyday of periodicals that published numerous translations, including numerous novels. There are countless parallel translations even reaching double digits. Translations included various genres and the traditional Latvian interest in plays was obvious. German was gradually losing its dominant positions as both a source and intermediate language, Russian was advancing. This period also saw a change of …
"Sillä rahalla ei voi tulla toimeen jos ois kuinka hyvä laskupää" : punaorpojen avustaminen Kuopiossa 1918-1933
2014
Suomen sisällissota käytiin vuonna 1918, ja sen seurauksena kuoli noin 36 000 ihmistä ja yli 14 000 lasta jäi orvoiksi. Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastelen Kuopiossa sisällissodan seurauksena punaisten orvoiksi jääneitä lapsia. Tutkin, kuinka Kuopion kaupungin viranomaiset huolsivat punaorpoperheitä, ja vaikuttiko perheiden tausta avustustoimiin ja niiden toteuttamiseen. Kuopiossa punaorpopolitiikkaa toteutettiin erilaisessa kontekstissa kuin isommissa sodankärsineissä kaupungeissa. Kuopiossa oli sisällissodan jälkeen yhteensä 52 alle 15-vuotiasta punaorpoa. Tutkimukseni päälähteinä olen käyttänyt Kuopion kaupungin köyhäinhoitohallituksen ja -lautakunnan sekä kasvatus- ja lastensuojel…
"Isä kuollut kapinassa" : Ruoveden punaorpohuolto ja sodan muisteltu lapsuus vuosina 1918 - 1924
2016
Vuoden 1918 sodan jälkeen Suomeen jäi eri lähteiden mukaan noin 14 400 lasta ilman huoltajaa. Lapsista lähes 90 % oli punaisen puolen jälkeläisiä. Isättömät lapset jaettiin kahteen ryhmään; valkoisten puolen lasten huolto järjestettiin eläkkeen turvin, ja punaorvot jäivät kuntien köyhäinhoidon varaan. Punaorvot muodostivat nuoren valtion uudelle sosiaalihallitukselle pikaista ratkaisua odottavan sosiaalisen, taloudellisen, moraalisen sekä poliittisen ongelman. Tässä tutkimuksessa tutkin Ruoveden kunnan punaorpohuoltoa sekä punaorpojen muisteltua lapsuutta Ruovedellä vuoden 1918 sodan aikana ja sodan jälkeen vuosina 1918 – 1924. Tutkimuksessa olen selvittänyt kuinka monta punaorpoa Ruovedell…