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Identifying Past and Current Trends in Technology Education in Finland
2021
Technology education makes a unique contribution to the development of all young people by providing them a wide range of knowledge and skills. It has a role in shaping future debates and discourses by developing students’ technological literacy and by raising awareness of various dimensions of technology. In order to understand technology education in Finnish basic education, it is necessary to consider it within the subject of craft, particularly the domain of technical craft activities. However, the role of technology education has been and still is undefined in Finland. Thus, we need strategic planning and research in order to develop the necessary procedures and operations to achieve i…
Problem-Based Learning in Professional Studies from the Physiotherapy Students’ Perspective
2018
The aim of the study was to investigate how physiotherapy students using a problem-based learning approach develop into experts during higher education, and answers the question: How do physiotherapy students at bachelor’s level understand the problem-based learning approach while learning to become professionals? PBL is examined using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of longitudinal data written by 15 voluntary students from two different higher education institutions and collected during 3.5 years. The main results on the new way of learning strengthen earlier conceptions of the importance of reflection in the learning process. The PBL method activates a reflection process b…
A phenomenological view of pictures in teaching and a novel method for analysing them
2014
In this paper a novel method for analysing the content and teaching potential of pictures is presented. It is the four-field method, which is based on phenomenological thoughts about human experience, which combines factual knowledge with emotions and personal and social meanings. A biological example is given. Around this idea a course unit for using pictures in science teaching was organized. It was used in the training of both primary and secondary level teachers. From picture analysis the course unit proceeds to planning the use of pictures in teaching. A classification of the teaching functions of pictures is presented.
Enabling environments for equity, access and quality education post-2015 : Lessons from South Africa and Tanzania
2016
In this paper we seek to contribute to the post-2015 education agenda by shifting the focus from considerations of what education goals and targets should be to a people-centred exploration of enabling environments, within and beyond education, for equity, access and quality. Theoretically, the paper draws on the capabilities approach. Empirically, we present data from two independent qualitative studies conducted in South Africa (n = 40) and Tanzania (n = 10) with university students who accessed higher education despite trends of low participation for their social class and/or gender. The paper highlights the importance of taking account of both instrumental and intrinsic values of educat…
Kroga laiktelpa Aleksandra Čaka dzejā un poēmās
2017
Bakalaura darbs “Kroga laiktelpa Aleksandra Čaka dzejā un poēmās” ir strukturēts trīs nodaļās. Izpētes centrā, piemēram, A. Čaka 20. ─ 30. gadu dzeja un poēmas ─ “Poēma par ormani”, “Spēlē, spēlmani”, ‘Matīss, kausu bajārs”. 1. nodaļā skaidrots laiktelpas jēdziens. 2. nodaļā aplūkots A. Čaka krogs no biogrāfiskā aspekta. 3. nodaļā tiek skaidrots, kas ir reālā un mākslinieciskā laiktelpa, kā tās parādās A. Čaka daiļradē. Apakšnodaļās analizēts krogs kā psiholoģiskā laiktelpa, ceļa un satikšanās laiktelpa un krogs kā daļa no pilsētas laiktelpas. Pētījuma mērķis ─ iegūt priekšstatu par to, ko atklāj kroga laiktelpa A. Čaka dzejā un poēmās. Tika izmantota hermeneitiskā un semiotiskā pētījumu me…
Towards student-centred pedagogy : action research with Ethiopian village school teachers
2018
This study is an action research that was planned and implemented with 23 Ethiopian Village School teachers. The action of the four year project concentrated on developing new, student-centred teaching methods instead of traditional lecturing and rote learning in one remote school. The overall aim of the study was to follow this process and the teachers’ professional development, and to explore how the practical arrangements, such as material or cultural surroundings, constrain or enable usage of student-centred methods at the school. The theoretical framework of the study consists of theories about professional development, action research, and the theory of practice architectures. The dat…
Design principles of educational virtual worlds for preschool children : a case study of JumpStart World Kindergarten's pedagogical methods
2010
This thesis studies the design principles of educational virtual worlds for pre-school children. It examines the culture and contextualization of the virtual worlds for children used for the purpose of informal education through learning games in the case study of JumpStart World Kindergarten. The theoretical background provides an overview of the historical development of educational virtual worlds based on the progression of MUDs, MOOs and MMORPG. In addition, the issues in implementation and adaptation of information and communication technologies (ICT) as part of educational methodologies are examined, thus a perspective is given of possible problems and solutions for optimization of us…
The role of the principal's instructional leadership at schools in Indonesia
2016
The education system in Indonesia, based on Ministry of National Education, has been performing instructional leadership as a major part of the effective school leaders’ behavior. One of the goals of instructional leadership implementation is to increase the learning outcomes of students. However, many of international student assessments have shown that Indonesia’s education system was among the incompetent countries. The purpose of the study is to analyze the implementation of instructional leadership phenomenon as the basic concept of effective leadership. This study was designed to investigate both principals and teachers about the role of principals’ instructional leadership. A qualita…
La educación para la sostenibilidad en la Universidad: el reto de la formación del profesorado
2012
Este trabajo analiza la importancia de la incorporación de la sostenibilidad en el currículum de la educación superior como componente esencial de la formación de los futuros profesionales. Se ponen de manifiesto los primeros avances hacia una impregnación de esta dimensión en la actividad docente, la gestión y la investigación, se estudian algunas dificultades encontradas y se sugieren propuestas para hacerles frente. El estudio se centra, en particular, en la formación del profesorado de diferentes niveles, mediante su inmersión en la cultura de la sostenibilidad, con el fin de que puedan contribuir a la educación de una ciudadanía responsable y preparada para participar en la toma de dec…
From Procedures to Objects: A Research Agenda for the Psychology of Object-Oriented Programming Education
2008
Programming education has experienced a shift from imperative and procedural programming to object-orientation. This shift has been motivated by educators’ desire to please the information technology industry and potential students; it is not motivated by research either in psychology of programming or in computer science education. There are practically no results that would indicate that such a shift is desirable, needed in the first place, or even effective for learning programming. Moreover, there has been an implicit assumption that classic results on imperative and procedural programming education and learning apply to object-oriented programming (OOP) as well. We argue that this is n…