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Early prediction of reading trajectories of children with and without reading instruction in kindergarten : a comparison study of Estonia and Finland
2019
Background: The present study examined differences in the prediction of reading development and reading difficulties in Estonia (n = 348) and Finland (n = 344). These neighbouring countries share many similarities in terms of their language, orthography and educational system; however, they differ in the timing of the onset of reading instruction, which is kindergarten in Estonia and Grade 1 in Finland. Methods: Children's skills were assessed three times – fall and spring in Grade 1 and spring in Grade 2. Results: The results showed that school‐entry rapid automatised naming and reading fluency predicted the development of fluency in Grade 2, but reading fluency was a stronger predictor in…
Moral beings and becomings : children's moral practices in classroom peer interaction
2016
This study investigates children’s social and moral practices as they appear in everyday classroom peer interaction. Its focus is on the relations between children’s interaction and moral understandings in situ. Juxtaposing the most archetypal ways of addressing and investigating morality in mainstream educational psychology, this study approaches morality is as it handled and man- aged as part of everyday intersubjective interaction. Ethnomethodological approaches alongside with sociocultural views of thinking are employed as theoretical and analytical frameworks to delineate how children as moral agents use language and other semiotic resources to accomplish their local organization of mo…
Variation in situation-specific engagement among lower secondary school students
2018
The majority of previous research has examined school engagement as an overall student characteristic. The present study contributes to the field by examining variation in students' situation-specific engagement from one lesson to another and by investigating situational determinants of such variation. An intensive one-week lesson-to-lesson data collection was conducted in four lower secondary school classrooms. Students rated their situation-specific engagement at the end of each lesson with a mobile-based InSitu instrument. Data comprising a total of 57 students and 1328 ratings were analyzed with two-level hierarchical multivariate model (between students, and within students between les…
Fenomenografinen tutkimus lasten koululaisuuskäsityksistä ja niiden rakentumisesta ekologisissa ympäristöissä
2011
TIIVISTELMÄ Siitonen, Inkeri. 2011. KOULULAISUUS ESIOPETUSIKÄISTEN LASTEN SILMIN. Fenomenografinen tutkimus lasten koululaisuuskäsityksistä ja niiden rakentumisesta ekologisissa ympäristöissä. Varhaiskasvatustieteen pro gradu -tutkielma, Jyväskylän yliopisto, Kasvatustieteiden laitos, Varhaiskasvatuksen yksikkö. 150 sivua + liitteet. Tutkimuksen aiheena olivat lasten koululaisuuteen liittyvät käsitykset ja niiden rakentuminen lapsen ekologisissa ympäristöissä esiopetusvuoden aikana. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli tuottaa tietoa siitä, millaisin käsityksin esiopetusikäiset lapset lähestyvät koulun aloitusta. Tämä on tärkeä tieto suunniteltaessa lapsilähtöistä kouluun siirtymää. Tutkimus on kv…
Investigating elementary school students’ text-based argumentation with multiple online information resources
2020
In this study, we explored how elementary school students used multiple information resources in responding to a text-based argumentation task asking them to research a set of online texts in order to state and justify their stance on a controversial health-related issue. Results showed that most students took a stance that was consistent with the majority of the information resources that they read, that they mainly drew on more reliable resources in their written task products, and that they justified their stance by providing one or more supporting reasons. Students relied much more on copying and paraphrasing content from the online resources than on integrating information within and a…
Schoolyard affordances for physical activity: a pilot study in 6 Nordic–Baltic countries
2021
Environmental settings influence children’s and adolescents’ physical activity (PA) in neighborhoods and schoolyards. This study aimed to explore the main characteristics of schoolyards in six Nordic–Baltic countries, to document how those facilities provide affordances for PA in 7–18 year–old schoolchildren, and how the schoolyard meets children’s preferences. One schoolyard was studied in each included country: Iceland, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The affordances, facilities, and equipment for PA in schoolyards were identified through orthophoto maps and standard registration forms. Children’s preferences were collected through group interviews at each participating s…
‘Then we were ready to be radicals!’ : school student activism in Finnish upper secondary schools in 1960–1967
2021
In the Western countries, Scandinavia and Finland included, the legacy of the student movement of the 1960s has been extensive and established a fixed narrative of a radical movement. This article challenges the elitists and university-centred grand narrative and argues that the student movement was more multifaceted and mobilized young people of various ages and backgrounds. This is done by addressing the international student movement from the perspective of school-aged students in Finnish upper secondary schools, focusing on student activism carried out in school-sanctioned student associations. Above all, this article aims to distinguish the relatively unknown history of the Scandinavia…
‘It Goes Around the World’ : Children’s Understanding of the Internet
2019
The Internet has become an important literacy environment, even for children. Therefore, building the foundations for their critical engagement with online information should start when they first enter school. One way to start is to help children build an understanding about the complexities of the Internet environment. The present study aimed at increasing our knowledge about children’s understanding of the Internet as a technical and social environment. It also explored how children perceive the trustworthiness of online information. The participants included 30 children aged 7–9 years. The children were interviewed and the data was analysed using content analysis. We share the results f…
Internettekstit argumentoinnin lähteinä: kuudesluokkalaisten heikkojen ja sujuvien lukijoiden argumentointitaidot
2016
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää kuudesluokkalaisten kirjallisia argumentointitaitoja silloin, kun he etsivät tietoa internetistä ottaakseen kantaa kiistanalaiseen asiaan. Lisäksi tarkasteltiin lukusujuvuuden heijastumista näihin taitoihin. Argumentointitaidot ovat keskeisiä taitoja jo lapsille kehittäen muun muassa ymmärtävää oppimista sekä kriittistä internetlukutaitoa. Tutkimus toteutettiin osana Suomen Akatemian rahoittamaa eSeek-hanketta, ja siihen osallistui 341 kuudesluokkalaista. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostui lukusujuvuutta mittaavien testien tuloksista sekä oppilaiden internetiä jäljittelevässä arviointiympäristössä kirjoittamista argumentoivista sähköpostiviesteistä. Viestei…
Investigating young Finnish CLIL pupils’ perceptions of foreign language use through visual narratives
2022
Abstract This article explores how pupils in early CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) education perceive language skills and use. The participants were 25 French-medium and 16 English-medium CLIL pupils in Grade 2 (aged 8 years). They had received CLIL education since the 1st Grade. The data were visual narratives drawn by the pupils and some associated open-ended questions they answered in writing. The data were analyzed using visual and content analysis. The results show that the pupils’ perceptions of language were a combination of traditional and modern views of language. The pupils compartmentalized the different languages as separate entities. They mostly saw language bei…