ERIC Number: EJ1194122
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 17
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ISSN: EISSN-2332-8584
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Teachers' Insights into Connected Learning Networks: Emerging Activities and Forms of Participation
Vartiainen, Henriikka; Nissinen, Saara; Pöllänen, Sinikka; Vanninen, Petteri
AERA Open, v4 n3 Jul-Sep 2018
The aim of this socioculturally informed study is to explore teachers' insights into connected-learning activities and networks. An instructional approach based on design-oriented pedagogy (DOP) was employed for a teachers' in-service project in Finland. An open-ended design task for the participating teachers and educators from kindergartens (N = 27) and primary schools (N = 2) involved designing and implementing a forest-related learning project with their own students or kindergarten children. A deductive content analysis of openly published project portfolios revealed that the teachers and educators harnessed learner interest as a basis for connecting with peers, family, external experts, and extended environments through diverse physical and digital information resources, tool-mediated activities, and the externalization of the learners' evolving object-oriented ideas. Conclusions are drawn about extended learning networks and activities that afforded inquiry activities to emerge.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Student Interests, Relevance (Education), Student Participation, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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