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View article: University Students’ Motivational Profiles, their Stability, and Connections with Perfectionism and Well-being: Latent Transition Approach
University Students’ Motivational Profiles, their Stability, and Connections with Perfectionism and Well-being: Latent Transition Approach Open
BackgroundStudents display diverse patterns of expectations for success, values, and perceived costs, and these motivational differences have significant implications for academic outcomes. By examining the stability, and antecedents and c…
View article: Collaborative assessment in design-based technology education
Collaborative assessment in design-based technology education Open
View article: Reflective thinking among Finnish pre-service teachers and its relation to metacognitive awareness
Reflective thinking among Finnish pre-service teachers and its relation to metacognitive awareness Open
View article: Bilingual aspirations
Bilingual aspirations Open
This paper examines students’ practices in becoming bilingual experts. Students study in bilingual bachelor’s degrees (Finnish-Swedish) at the University of Helsinki. The research questions are: 1) What practices do the students engage in …
View article: Exploring intersectional inequalities in students' sense of belonging in education across educational pathways and across educational contexts
Exploring intersectional inequalities in students' sense of belonging in education across educational pathways and across educational contexts Open
Introduction The study investigated inequalities in the sense of belonging in education among students in primary, secondary and tertiary levels in various European, North American and Oceanian countries. Variation across different educati…
View article: How does curriculum making contribute to teaching culture in higher education?
How does curriculum making contribute to teaching culture in higher education? Open
Curriculum making characterized by effective change management and knowledge sharing in the professional community is at the core of developing higher education. Curriculum making both contributes to teaching culture and is affected by it.…
View article: Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education
Struggling for equal access and success: disability in European higher education Open
View article: PhD candidates’ and supervisors’ wellbeing and experiences of supervision
PhD candidates’ and supervisors’ wellbeing and experiences of supervision Open
PhD candidates’ wellbeing has become a global concern over the past decade, and the topic has been addressed in several studies. At the same time, PhD supervisors’ wellbeing has remained largely unexplored. Also, most studies about supervi…
View article: Turkish teachers’ values with rational and non-rational truth and teacher emotions in teaching
Turkish teachers’ values with rational and non-rational truth and teacher emotions in teaching Open
The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between personal values, truth-related values and emotions among Turkish teachers. The Schwartz’s Value Theory and Frenzel’s teacher emotion model were used as the theoretical framewor…
View article: Professional agency in the classroom and burnout among early career teachers in China
Professional agency in the classroom and burnout among early career teachers in China Open
The aim of the present study is to investigate early career teachers’ professional agency in the classroom. In addition, the association between early career teachers’ professional agency in the classroom and the burnout they experienced w…
View article: What makes a good mentor of in-service teacher education? —A systematic review of mentoring competence from a transformative learning perspective
What makes a good mentor of in-service teacher education? —A systematic review of mentoring competence from a transformative learning perspective Open
View article: Early Career Teachers’ Professional Agency in the Classroom and Socio-contextual Burnout: A Cross-country Comparison
Early Career Teachers’ Professional Agency in the Classroom and Socio-contextual Burnout: A Cross-country Comparison Open
This study examines early career teachers’ (ECT) professional agency in relation to socio-contextual burnout in four European countries: the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Teachers’ professional agency has been shown to be relat…
View article: Pedagogical infrastructures in multidisciplinary technology education
Pedagogical infrastructures in multidisciplinary technology education Open
In multidisciplinary technology education, teachers work together to support pupils in designing with technology. The different forms of support are based on establishing pedagogical infrastructures for pupils’ learning of technology. Alth…
View article: Research approaches in master-based teacher education preparing student teachers for professional work
Research approaches in master-based teacher education preparing student teachers for professional work Open
Student teachers have been found to be critical toward the research approaches they learned from their master's-based teacher education programmes. Our aim is to discuss how certain research approaches learnt during a 5-year academic maste…
View article: Student engagement and its development in university education: A three-year follow-up study
Student engagement and its development in university education: A three-year follow-up study Open
View article: Conceptualizing Socialization, Qualification, and Subjectification as Purposes of Education<sup>†</sup>
Conceptualizing Socialization, Qualification, and Subjectification as Purposes of Education<sup>†</sup> Open
The authors of this paper explore Gert Biesta's theorization of three domains of purpose of education: socialization, qualification, and subjectification. The aim is to study the interrelations of the domains and to develop further the the…
View article: Online poetry writing at school – comparing lower secondary students’ experiences between individual and collaborative poetry writing
Online poetry writing at school – comparing lower secondary students’ experiences between individual and collaborative poetry writing Open
Introduction This study investigates how seventh-grade students experience online collaborative writing, its support in writing poems, and how collaboratively and individually written poems differ. Methods The educational design research m…
View article: Early Career Teachers’ Sense of Professional Agency in the Classroom and Associations With Their Perception of Transformational Leadership Vision and School Size
Early Career Teachers’ Sense of Professional Agency in the Classroom and Associations With Their Perception of Transformational Leadership Vision and School Size Open
This study explores the relationship between early career teachers’ sense of professional agency in the classroom, their perceptions of principals’ transformational leadership vision, and school size. The survey data were collected from 77…
View article: International students’ burnout and self-efficacy profiles and their relation to writing conceptions
International students’ burnout and self-efficacy profiles and their relation to writing conceptions Open
International students are at risk of burnout during their studies and face challenges in their writing. This study explores the burnout and self-efficacy profiles of international students and how these profiles differ in writing concepti…
View article: ‘Making it possible’: the complex dynamics of university foreign language teacher agency for research in funding applications
‘Making it possible’: the complex dynamics of university foreign language teacher agency for research in funding applications Open
Teacher agency for research, which refers to teachers’ decision-making and initiative acts in the context of academic engagement, plays a pivotal role for teacher learning, teacher research, and thus teachers’ professional development. Des…
View article: Research-based Teacher Education Curriculum Supporting Student Teacher Learning
Research-based Teacher Education Curriculum Supporting Student Teacher Learning Open
Coherent research-based teacher education curriculum is of vital importance when educating student teachers for the teaching profession in the academic university context. It is essential that the characteristics and complexities of teache…
View article: Collaborative Assessment in Design-Based Technology Education
Collaborative Assessment in Design-Based Technology Education Open
View article: “My Goal Is to Talk Like a Native”: Emergent Bilingual Students’ Use of Language Learning Strategies
“My Goal Is to Talk Like a Native”: Emergent Bilingual Students’ Use of Language Learning Strategies Open
This paper investigates emergent bilingual students’ (Finnish and Swedish) use of language learning strategies (LLS). The focus is on the frequency of LLS use, the difference between Swedish and Finnish speaking students’ use of LLS and th…
View article: A systematic review of empirical literature on the segregation of educational institutions and its consequences in Finland
A systematic review of empirical literature on the segregation of educational institutions and its consequences in Finland Open
While Finland has been considered a model for educational equity, the last decade has brought up concerns about educational segregation. This systematic literature review captures an overview of research on factors contributing to educatio…
View article: University Students’ Motivational Profiles, their Stability, and Connections with Perfectionism and Well-being: Latent Transition Approach
University Students’ Motivational Profiles, their Stability, and Connections with Perfectionism and Well-being: Latent Transition Approach Open
BackgroundStudents display diverse patterns of expectations for success, values, and perceived costs, and these motivational differences have significant implications for academic outcomes. By examining the stability, and antecedents and c…
View article: Generic skills in higher education – teachers’ conceptions, pedagogical practices and pedagogical training
Generic skills in higher education – teachers’ conceptions, pedagogical practices and pedagogical training Open
Teachers' conceptions of teaching play a key role in the pedagogical practices they apply in their teaching. Previous studies of conceptions of teaching generic skills have been mainly qualitative with small samples, and thus there is a ne…
View article: Teachers’ perceptions of social support in the co-planning of multidisciplinary technology education
Teachers’ perceptions of social support in the co-planning of multidisciplinary technology education Open
In Finland, technology education is a multidisciplinary field where team teaching serves as a basis for the integration of technology across different school subjects. However, Finnish teacher education does not adequately prepare the stud…
View article: How do self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduate students’ critical thinking performance?
How do self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduate students’ critical thinking performance? Open
Critical thinking is a multifaceted construct involving a set of skills and affective dispositions together with self-regulation. The aim of this study was to explore how self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduat…
View article: Investigating the Characteristics of Knowledge-Related Learning Assignments in Upper Secondary School
Investigating the Characteristics of Knowledge-Related Learning Assignments in Upper Secondary School Open
This study reports on whether students have the opportunity to acquire generic competencies when they work with knowledge-related assignments at upper secondary school. We investigated 30 assignments. The data included lesson observations …
View article: How does the learning environment support vocational student learning of domain-general competencies?
How does the learning environment support vocational student learning of domain-general competencies? Open