Craft and design (sloyd) is a compulsory subject taught in grades 1-7 in primary schools in Finland. In grades 8-9 the subject is elective. The learning process in sloyd is highly student-centred and focused on individual learning processes during which tangible artefacts are manufactured e.g. in wood, textile materials, metal and plastic. Sloyd also includes basic mechanics and electronics. Th...

Introduction: Teaching Qualifications (TQs) have been implemented in University Medical Centers, but their relation to teachers’ motivation for medical teaching is unknown. Because teacher motivation influences important outcomes, it is crucial to study how TQs are related to promoting teacher motivation, by fulfilling the basic needs of feeling autonomous, competent, and related towards medica...

Abstract One purpose of this study was to analyze relations between four possible indicators a collective teacher culture by means confirmatory factor analyses. The were termed “shared goals values”, “value consonance”, “collective efficacy”, and “supportive colleagues”. A second explore teachers’ experiences autonomy, belonging, job satisfaction. Participants 760 Norwegian teachers in elementa...

A study of 805 4th through 7th graders used a model of motivational development to guide the investigation of the internal dynamics of 4 indicators of behavioral and emotional engagement and disaffection and the facilitative effects of teacher support and 3 student self-perceptions (competence, autonomy, and relatedness) on changes in these indicators over the school year. In terms of internal ...

This article addresses teacher autonomy in different models of educational governance using quantitative data from the OECD TALIS 2018 and qualitative a study on conducted Norway Brazil. In this article, is seen as multidimensional concept referring to decision-making control relation state governance. Further, degrees implementation accountability measures across countries determine The reveal...