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The Question of Creativity in the Finnish Elementary School Curriculum
2017
This article is intended to examine the role of creative education in the design of the national curriculum and the division of lesson hours during the period 2010-2014. During this process, pupils, private citizens and experts from different fields were given the opportunity to submit their contributions to the exercise. The article intends to examine whether the curriculum development exercise fulfilled the conditions for a wide democratic consultation process. Three professional groups, elementary school teachers, artists (writers, visual arts teachers, musicians) and academic engineers (n= 1163) were the main focus of this research project. Creativity related claims, which were posted o…
Specificity of Reading Self-Efficacy Among Primary School Children
2018
We investigated the specificity of reading self-efficacy among second- to fifth-grade children in Finland (N = 1,327). Bandura (1997 Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York, NY: Freeman. [Google Scholar] ) theorized that efficacy beliefs can be assessed at different levels of specificity; however, empirical support for this view is scarce among young children. Efficacy beliefs targeting reading-related activities were assessed at three specificity levels (general, intermediate, and specific). Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that these specificity levels are separable, but correlated, and the structure was invariant across gender and grade level. Self-effic…
The developmental dynamics of task-avoidant behavior and math performance in kindergarten and elementary school
2012
Besides cognitive factors, children's learning at school may be influenced by more dynamic phenomena, such as motivation and achievement-related task-avoidant behavior. The present study examined the developmental dynamics of task-avoidant behavior and math performance from kindergarten to Grade 4. A total of 225 children were tested for their arithmetic skills in kindergarten and in Grades 1, 2, and 4 of elementary school. Children's task-avoidant behavior in learning situations was rated by their teachers. The results of latent growth curve analyses showed that math performance and task-avoidant behavior develop in tandem: an increase in task-avoidant behavior was related to less improvem…
Yhteisöllisyys musiikinopetuksessa : alakoulun opettajien pedagogisia ratkaisuja yhteisöllisyyden näkökulmasta
2012
Tässä tutkielmassa selvitettiin, mikä on yhteisöllisyyden asema musiikintunneilla ja kuinka yhteisöllisyyttä voisi tukea musiikintunneilla. Yhteisöllisyydestä keskustellaan paljon, mutta se on käsitteenä epäselvä, moniselitteinen ja abstrakti. Yhteisöllisyyden on tutkittu vaikuttavan terveyteen ja eliniän pituuteen. Tutkielman tutkimusmenetelmänä olen käyttänyt avointa teemahaastattelua, jonka kysymykset on laadittu tässä tutkielmassa käytettyjen yhteisöllisyyden kriteerien pohjalta. Haastattelu on tehty kevään 2011 aikana viidelle opettajalle, joista yksi työskenteli pääkaupunkiseudulla ja loput Keski-Suomessa. Kaikki haastatelluista opettavat musiikkia alaluokille. Tämän tutkielman tuloks…
Comparison of Classroom-Based Sedentary Time and Physical Activity in Conventional Classrooms and Open Learning Spaces Among Elementary School Studen…
2021
European children and adolescents spend most of their daily life and especially their school hours being sedentary which may increase their risk for chronic non-communicable diseases later in life. After the curriculum reform of Finnish basic education in 2014, most of the new or renovated comprehensive schools in Finland incorporate open and flexible classroom designs. Their open learning spaces may provide students opportunities to reduce sedentary behavior during school hours. Thus, waist-worn accelerometers were used to assess classroom-based sedentary time (ST), the number of breaks from sedentary time (BST), and physical activity (PA) among cross-sectional samples of 3rd and 5th grade…
Comparison of Classroom-based Sedentary Time and Physical Activity in Conventional Classrooms and Open Learning Spaces Among Elementary School Studen…
2021
European children and adolescents spend most of their daily life and especially their school hours being sedentary which may increase their risk for chronic non-communicable diseases later in life. After the curriculum reform of Finnish basic education in 2014, most of the new or renovated comprehensive schools in Finland incorporate open and flexible classroom designs. Their open learning spaces may provide students opportunities to reduce sedentary behavior during school hours. Thus, waist-worn accelerometers were used to assess classroom-based sedentary time (ST), the number of breaks from sedentary time (BST), and physical activity (PA) among cross-sectional samples of 3rd and 5th grade…
Les déterminants personnels du bien-être de l’écolier, de ses satisfactions en classe et de sa performance scolaire
2017
This work focuses on the study of personal determinants of pupils' achievement and reactions toward class (well-being; satisfaction with teacher, learning and class). A theoretical model is tested by commonality analysis and refined by causal paths analysis. The results show that external and cognitive prior characteristics (age, gender, socio-occupational background, academic record) have direct effects on criteria variables, and indirectly via the attitudes toward school (negative feelings; scholastic interest; aspirations for future studies; "scholastic anxiety, worry and stress"; fun school). Using two structural models, we explained 39 % of the variance in academic achievement, and fro…
Rakstītprasmes veicināšana sākumskolas skolēniem ar mācīšanās traucējumiem
2019
Diplomdarba autore Linda Spalva. Šobrīd autore studē Latvijas Universitātē, studiju programmā speciālās izglītības skolotājs/skolotājs logopēds. Paralēli studijām autore apmeklē dažādus kursus gan logopēdijā, gan speciālajā pedagoģijā. Kopš 2018.gada sākuma strādā vispārizglītojošā skolā par speciālo pedagogu. Diplomdarba tēma – Rakstītprasmes veicināšana sākumskolas skolēniem ar mācīšanās traucējumiem. Rakstītprasme ir viena no dzīves pamatprasmēm, ko skolēns apgūst skolā, tādēļ ļoti būtiski to izkopt un pilnveidot. Arvien biežāk nākas saskarties ar skolēniem, kuriem ir dažāda veida traucējumi, tādēļ nepieciešams noteikt traucējuma veidu un sniegt bērnam palīdzību. Diplomdarba mērķis ir te…
The role of temperament in children's affective and behavioral responses in achievement situations
2013
Abstract Although students' affects and behaviors in achievement situations have been shown to be influenced by their previous learning experiences, less is known about how they relate to students' dispositional characteristics, such as temperament. This study examined to what extent children's temperament is related to their affective and behavioral responses in achievement situations. Teachers rated first-graders' ( n = 153) temperamental characteristics in the Fall semester. Children's active task avoidance, anxiety, and helplessness were rated in test situations in the Fall and Spring semesters. The results showed that the more easily distracted the children were, the more task avoidan…