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Everyday leadership practices from the foundation of cricis leadership in higher education

2025-06-08T21:12:26+03:00

Everyday leadership practices from the foundation of cricis leadership in higher education

Preparing higher education organizations for crisis is about more than just making plans for pandemics or wars. Higher education organizations face a wide diversity of crises, and their diverse communities have varied experiences of, and needs during, crises. Our research has revealed that crisis leadership, and especially crisis preparation, is built on a foundation of leadership skills that we already practice every day, such as communication, planning, and community building. Read more >>

Enhancing Eritrean teacher education capabilities

2025-06-08T21:11:49+03:00

Enhancing Eritrean teacher education capacities

Teacher educators from JYU have collaborated with colleagues from Eritrean colleges to develop quality teacher education. During five years of project cooperation funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, faculty members have worked on pedagogical and management training, curriculum support, research supervision and collaborative research. The projects created a favourable environment for multidimensional collaboration... Read more >>

The accessibility of digital learning environments concerns everybody

2018-11-26T17:31:09+02:00

The accessibility of digital learning environments concerns everybody

Digitalisation concerns closely educational organisations, studying and learning. It offers various new opportunities for the organisation of education and learning. At the same time it also brings obligations and challenges to education providers. In our study we examine the accessibility of study-related digital operation and learning environments. By joint projects involving universities and other higher education institutions, we also seek to increase the pedagogic and technical expertise of their staff. Along with digitalisation the future learning environments will be more diverse than before. In teaching it is important to guarantee for all learners an equal access not only to classrooms but also to digital... Read more >>

Emotion pixies Weepybold, Angrybold, Afraidybold and Happybold help children recognise emotions

2018-07-04T12:32:38+03:00

Emotion pixies Weepybold, Angrybold, Afraidybold and Happybold help children recognise emotions

How do you feel when you're sad? Where in your body you feel the sorrow? What does help you when you're feeling sad? Children consider these questions in kindergartens with emotion pixies Weepybold, Angrybold, Afraidybold and Happybold. Emotional competencies, i.e. identifying, recognising and controlling one's emotions, develop in social interaction with other people. There are several intervention programmes designed for children's social-emotional development, one of which is Papilio, a programme for preschool education. It is currently under study at the Department of Education in the University of Jyväskylä. Read more >>

The best teachers in the world are autonomous, but not individualists

2018-08-08T13:05:01+03:00

The best teachers in the world are autonomous, but not individualists

Finnish teachers are known as the best in the world. But what makes a good teacher? One characteristic feature is professional autonomy: teachers make decisions on the basis of their own rational thinking and professional ethics. In such cases we can speak about strong, communal autonomy. Teachers' work, including their professional autonomy, is a major research area of the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER). In this area FIER is collaborating with Finnish universities, including also the Universities of Applied Sciences of Finland. FIER is also an internationally recognised centre of teacher education research.
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Young people's Finnish identity is open and international in the world of mobility

2018-01-17T17:26:52+02:00

Young people's Finnish identity is open and international in the world of mobility

Finnish identity among today’s young people is more diverse than in previous generations. Mobility and internationalisation are reflected in how the young people define their Finnish identity. An increasing number of families are multicultural, and children identify themselves also with their parents’ cultural and national background other than the traditional Finnish one. There are thus many ways to be and live in Finland. This diversity brings challenges to school’s traditional mission of citizenship education: to support students’ national identification and growth as a citizen in the modern world.
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Programming, blogs and videos – are these really part of literacy?

2018-01-17T17:21:23+02:00

Programming, blogs and videos – are these really part of literacy?

Literacy requirements are changing along with the changing world of texts. Technological development, in particular, has set new demands for reading and creating texts. Literacy is no longer just an ability to read and write verbal texts but there is also a demand for the ability to product and use visual and auditive contents of the diverse media world by means of modern technologies. Therefore, also competence assessments need to change accordingly.
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Diversified pedagogy supports the development of working-life skills

2017-05-24T10:10:53+03:00

Diversified pedagogy supports the development of working-life skills

The skills needed in working life will not develop merely by listening to lectures and cramming knowledge from books. Rather, learning the skills required at work in the 21st century calls especially for working together and reflection in small groups, problem-solving tasks, and practical training.
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Digitalisation and learning spaces – challenges and opportunities

2017-05-24T10:10:58+03:00

Digitalisation and learning spaces – challenges and opportunities

Digitalisation is shaping the daily teaching and learning in a way that could hardly be imagined in the school years of previous generations. Innovations bring along multiple benefits, but sooner or later also some unexpected problems tend to appear. The ever faster change is taking up more and more of individual resources. Learning can be considered a trip to an unknown terrain. Amidst a constant flood of information without any quiet shelter, there is an imminent risk of cognitive overload while adjusting oneself to the new ways of interaction and operation, which eventually leads to malfunctioning in one way or another.
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More men to school?

2017-05-24T09:35:37+03:00

More men to school?

”It’s incredibly hard to capture what gender means for teachership”. So considered a group of a few students in Restaurant Uno in Ruusupuisto. The students were pondering, on the basis of their first weeks at the University, about the female domination among class teachers and its implications for teaching work. What is this phenomenon all about? Why is the teaching profession sought and eventually occupied predominantly by women? Why are there so few men in schools?
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Does perseverance substitute intelligence?

2016-10-11T11:01:18+03:00

Does perseverance substitute intelligence?

Practice makes perfect and repetition is the mother of learning. Practice and repetition are essential elements of learning. But how is perseverance connected to student performance? Does perseverance substitute intelligence and can persistent efforts bring better results in test situations as well? Finns are known for their sisu (a combination of persistence and will-power). But are the youth perseverant and did it help them succeed in PISA assessments?
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2 - career planning

2016-10-11T10:29:03+03:00

PISA study: Finnish students learn career planning skills already at school

Career planning skills refer to the ability to find information on prospective study paths or job opportunities, for example. In Finland, the significance of school in learning career planning skills is the highest among the studied PISA countries. One reason for this is that in Finland, unlike in many other countries, student counselling is part of the curriculum and a compulsory subject for everyone.
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1- Finnish at a reception centre

2016-10-11T10:29:56+03:00

Teaching and learning Finnish at a reception centre

An intensive course on the Finnish language was organised for the residents of the centre in autumn 2015. The course lasted for four weeks and there were three teaching sessions per week. The first stage was taught by the students of the Department of Teacher Education who were specialising in teaching Finnish as a second language.
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