In Finland, the theory of social pedagogy is not only fixed to certain philosophies. As a science, social pedagogy is based on open communication across theoretical perspectives. In theory and analy­ sis it might be increasingly sophisticated. It might be questionable to speak about a special Finnish interpretation and theory formation of social peda­ gogy, because there is no unified self­conc...

Pedagogy is a term widely used in educational writing but all too often its meaning is assumed to be self-evident. An examination of how the term is used and the implicit assumptions about teaching and education that underlie its use is a valuable way of understanding how the education process is perceived. Many of the strategies that have been developed to redress inequity in schooling have ta...

The purpose of this study was to find out what current challenges successful principals in Estonia and Finland identify developing their schools. strategies used dealing with these were also analyzed within the framework “growth-mindset pedagogy” as an educational approach school leadership. interviewed, resulting data by means both inductive deductive content analysis. similarities among diffe...

This article discusses how vocational actor training could be challenged and developed through materially oriented object theatre to address questions of well-being. Institutional institutional care are linked by means artistic research experiments on theatre. The aim is extend the scope beyond humanistic sphere inherent in acting providing pedagogy with alternative notions agency materiality. ...

For sighted people, pictures provide an important mechanism of communication; they are also a valuable learning resource. This paper discusses these issues in context to their use in developing and promoting online pictorial pedagogy through the medium of computers. As the size of an image collection grows, some form of picture repository is needed in order to store, manage, and retrieve images...

Case-based pedagogy has evolved as an important tool for enhancing students’ analytical thinking and problem solving skills, as well as fostering the ability to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty. Due to the rapid development of technologies that allow collaboration and interaction despite geographic and temporal distances, educators are investigating the viability of emerging techn...

We propose that human communication is specifically adapted to allow the transmission of generic knowledge between individuals. Such a communication system, which we call 'natural pedagogy', enables fast and efficient social learning of cognitively opaque cultural knowledge that would be hard to acquire relying on purely observational learning mechanisms alone. We argue that human infants are p...

abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...

Practice-oriented learning and, in particular, the project method is becoming increasingly popular theory and practice of pedagogy. Originated at beginning Contemporary times as a desire for greater creativity self-expression individual, it remains relevant present stage, especially given large-scale spiritual pedagogical crisis caused by spread mass culture. The need to reveal potential dictat...

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