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This book introduces research and solutions tested in schools with
students with intellectual disabilities, socio-emotional
difficulties, and extreme illnesses. It also provides extremely
talented students' opinions on best teaching practices. In addition
to students, the authors aim to bring out voices of their parents,
teachers, and other people supporting them. The book serves people
working with questions of special education: practitioners,
researchers, and teachers and students in the field of special
education worldwide. The authors present successful study processes
which are secured by caring interaction, flexible, and
student-centered teaching and multi-professional collaboration. The
elements of caring education are the guiding principles of new
special education.
This book is a pioneering work. It discusses special
characteristics of the education of Sami people, an indigenous
people living in Northern Europe. The book provides a comprehensive
study of indigenous school research and special features of Sami
education including problems and opportunities that teachers and
pupils confront daily. The purpose of this book is to support the
realization of indigenous peoples' education based on their own
cultural premises. New, reformative pedagogical models and
culturally sensitive teaching arrangements that could enhance Sami
education are the focus of the book. It is aimed at everyone who is
interested in indigenous peoples' educational conditions and is
based on the authors' research cooperation in the field of Sami
education.
What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers
describe their success? How can work, community, leadership,
family, or home and school promote success? Success at work is
often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice
other areas of life to achieve highly in the workplace, but success
can also be defined in other ways. It can consist of feelings of
knowledge, competence and accomplishment, stemming from an inner
drive to work well and create an expression of mastery. This book
focuses on employees who have been rewarded for their skills and
expertise. Based on the authors' in-depth research into the
phenomenon of success at work, this book provides a positive
human-strength based approach to success and offers a fresh
viewpoint to the modern, demanding and hectic work life. Drawing
from the theory of positive psychology and outlining new
theoretical ideas including work motivation, career orientation,
work characteristics, and positive states of work, success is
described as a combination of multiple elements which include other
areas of life. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies
from employees, and it will ignite thoughts about what success at
work is and can be, and how to recognize factors which enhance or
hinder success in varying contexts. Considering a variety of data,
this book will appeal to researchers and academics from the fields
of work and organisational psychology, positive psychology, career
counselling and coaching.
What is childhood like in Finland? What kind of practical solutions
have been created and evaluated that aim at both providing good
childhood experiences and supporting children's positive
development? What practices aim to prevent child exclusion from
regular education and social experiences and to foster children's
healthy development in emotional, social, and behavioural terms?
This book considers the reality of childhood in Finland. It
discusses the realisation and evaluation of early childhood
education and addresses aspects of research and practice concerning
children under the age of 10. It examines the growth and
development of young children, how learning and teaching are
organised, practices of rearing children and the state of child
care in Finland. Contributors represent a variety of universities
and sub disciplines in the science of education and focus on
perspectives of children's well-being, special viewpoints of early
childhood education, care, and research in Finland. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Early Child Development
and Care.
Love is the most important resource of every human being's life.
The authors examine what kind of roles love might have in different
phases of life. They discuss how love makes life more meaningful
and enjoyable. However, there are still love-related themes that
are not so easy to discuss or accept. This book provides
research-based analyses about the different roles of love including
forms that have aroused contradictory feelings and prejudices, such
as falling in love in the old age and love in people with
intellectual disability are discussed. The book serves as a
textbook for studies in psychology, education, and other fields in
human sciences.
Universities around the world are under increasing pressure to
maintain high levels of graduation and to make study processes as
efficient as possible, with teachers and students struggling to
meet the expectations placed upon them as a result. The Psychology
of Study Success in Universities asks whether it is possible to
meet these demands at the same time as protecting the well-being of
students. Drawing on an extensive and detailed analysis of study
success in universities in Finland, the authors of this
thought-provoking work argue that universities should be more
concerned with students' satisfaction and place greater weight on
students' perceptions of the elements that enhance or hinder their
success. The book provides a multi-dimensional picture of the
student-related and teaching-related factors that promote study
success. Giving voice to graduate students, including those
enrolled on a PhD, the authors look at the resources that students
have at their disposal in order to establish what inspires and
motivates the students, what slows them down, and what kinds of
experiences students have of successful studies. Maatta and
Uusiautti present a wealth of high-quality research showing that
good teaching and successful study processes can be secured by
immediate and caring interaction, flexible and student-centred
teaching and supervision, and interdisciplinary collaboration
between teachers. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities
is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate
students in the fields of education and psychology, as well as for
those interested in positive psychology, student well-being and
pedagogical studies.
Universities around the world are under increasing pressure to
maintain high levels of graduation and to make study processes as
efficient as possible, with teachers and students struggling to
meet the expectations placed upon them as a result. The Psychology
of Study Success in Universities asks whether it is possible to
meet these demands at the same time as protecting the well-being of
students. Drawing on an extensive and detailed analysis of study
success in universities in Finland, the authors of this
thought-provoking work argue that universities should be more
concerned with students' satisfaction and place greater weight on
students' perceptions of the elements that enhance or hinder their
success. The book provides a multi-dimensional picture of the
student-related and teaching-related factors that promote study
success. Giving voice to graduate students, including those
enrolled on a PhD, the authors look at the resources that students
have at their disposal in order to establish what inspires and
motivates the students, what slows them down, and what kinds of
experiences students have of successful studies. Maatta and
Uusiautti present a wealth of high-quality research showing that
good teaching and successful study processes can be secured by
immediate and caring interaction, flexible and student-centred
teaching and supervision, and interdisciplinary collaboration
between teachers. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities
is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate
students in the fields of education and psychology, as well as for
those interested in positive psychology, student well-being and
pedagogical studies.
What is childhood like in Finland? What kind of practical solutions
have been created and evaluated that aim at both providing good
childhood experiences and supporting children's positive
development? What practices aim to prevent child exclusion from
regular education and social experiences and to foster children's
healthy development in emotional, social, and behavioural terms?
This book considers the reality of childhood in Finland. It
discusses the realisation and evaluation of early childhood
education and addresses aspects of research and practice concerning
children under the age of 10. It examines the growth and
development of young children, how learning and teaching are
organised, practices of rearing children and the state of child
care in Finland. Contributors represent a variety of universities
and sub disciplines in the science of education and focus on
perspectives of children's well-being, special viewpoints of early
childhood education, care, and research in Finland. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Early Child Development
and Care.
What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers
describe their success? How can work, community, leadership,
family, or home and school promote success? Success at work is
often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice
other areas of life to achieve highly in the workplace, but success
can also be defined in other ways. It can consist of feelings of
knowledge, competence and accomplishment, stemming from an inner
drive to work well and create an expression of mastery. This book
focuses on employees who have been rewarded for their skills and
expertise. Based on the authors' in-depth research into the
phenomenon of success at work, this book provides a positive
human-strength based approach to success and offers a fresh
viewpoint to the modern, demanding and hectic work life. Drawing
from the theory of positive psychology and outlining new
theoretical ideas including work motivation, career orientation,
work characteristics, and positive states of work, success is
described as a combination of multiple elements which include other
areas of life. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies
from employees, and it will ignite thoughts about what success at
work is and can be, and how to recognize factors which enhance or
hinder success in varying contexts. Considering a variety of data,
this book will appeal to researchers and academics from the fields
of work and organisational psychology, positive psychology, career
counselling and coaching.
The purpose of this book is to provide a special viewpoint on the
development of the Finnish school system and teacher education.
Understanding the success of today requires information about the
past. The book covers the history, ideological background, and
development of Finnish teacher education from the 19th century to
today. The historical review uses a northern Finnish teacher
training college of Tornio as the example. This book provides
interesting information about the ideological foundation of the
first teacher training colleges, description of how the ideology
was applied in the practice of teacher training, and how students
were selected for teacher training. The development of teacher
training faced certain hardships too. What happened in Finnish
society since the establishment of teacher training colleges in the
second half of the 19th century affected Finnish teacher training
significantly. The book brings out the special circumstances in
Finland at the beginning of the 20th century focusing on the war
years of 1939-1945.
Indigenous languages are endangered and questions of revitalization
are topical in today's climate. This book deals with adult
education and the topic of adults reclaiming their ancestral
language. The themes addressed here cover indigeneity, and
identification with, and membership in, indigenous groups on an
individual level. The volume contemplates the preconditions of
belonging to an indigenous people and the definitions of
indigeneity. It also contains discussions of indigenous research,
and provides new perspectives on methods suitable for recording
indigenous people's voices and experiences. The text uses the Sami
people in Finland as the example, focusing on political identity
and indigenous Sami status.
What do we actually talk about when we talk about love? Research on
love and emotions has been met with suspicion although people live
in a network of relationships from birth to death, and the ability
to build and maintain relationships is an important strength. This
book provides a comprehensive research-based analysis of love in
human life: romantic love and its ups and downs, and the
fascination of love, the combination of work and family, the
secrets of a long-lasting marriage, senior love, and the throes and
relief of a divorce. Love is also discussed in relation to other
phenomena, such as friendship, play, and creativity. In addition,
themes of parental love and pedagogical love, and the ability to
love, as well as dark sides of love are introduced. Love is worth
cherishing and practicing. Other people's experiences may be
helpful, and information about the nature of love can relieve the
pain. Thus, love, in its various forms, makes the best health
insurance This book is meant for everyone interested in love but
also for professionals in various fields, such as psychologists,
educators, and couple and family counselors. The book is based on
authors Prof. Kaarina Maatta's and Dr. Satu Uusiautti's extensive
research on love at the University of Lapland, Finland.
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