Editorial
Articles
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Co-teaching improves assessment competences - perceptions of Finnish novice university teachers' assessment in higher education
Assessment culture in university teaching influences roles, participation, power relations, and social justice. The pedagogical expertise of the higher education teacher becomes apparent when conducting assessments. Currently, assessment in higher education is at a turning point, requiring teachers to engage students as active participants in the assessment process. The research...
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Bridging the divide: immersive virtual spaces for hybrid learning in remote teacher education
Access to quality education in remote areas, particularly in the Arctic and small island regions, is often limited due to travel constraints. Hybrid learning offers a solution, but traditional video conferencing tools fail to fully engage online students. This study explores the potential of immersive virtual spaces in hybrid teacher...
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Teachers' obligations to address threats to students' well-being in Finland: educational and legal insights into preservice teachers' conceptions
Students’ diverse needs and right to receive support encompass not only academic dimensions but also their broader well-being. This study aims to provide educational and legal insights into how strongly, and for what reasons, preservice class teachers (PSTs) in Finland perceive teachers to be obligated to address threats to students’...
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Bridging global ideals and local realities: navigating the complex path to inclusive education in the Faroe Islands
This article investigates the complex process of adapting Global North–driven principles of inclusive education to the local circumstances of the Faroe Islands, a small and culturally distinct society in the North Atlantic. Drawing on situational analysis and a holistic, ecological approach to inclusion the study examines how international ideas of...
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Advancing social equity through teacher well-being: TCM in Finnish elementary schools
Challenging pupil behaviour in elementary schools poses a critical threat to social equity in education, with teacher well-being emerging as a key dimension of this challenge. This study examines how teaching staff in schools perceive the impact of the TCM (Teacher Classroom Management) method on promoting social equity in their...
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Rievdan - new genre arctic art education building cultural resilience in a time of global change
Rievdan – Muutos, meaning change in Davvi Sámi and Finnish, is an art-based action research (ABAR) project conducted by the University of Lapland in Finland. Beginning in 2025 in Sápmi, the Sámi homeland, it involves collaboration with inhabitants of Vuohčču village in Finland and Kárášjohka town in Norway. The project...
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Intercultural competence: Finnish teachers' reflections on addressing diversities
An increasing number of Nordic teachers currently work daily with students from a variety of cultural, linguistic and worldview backgrounds. In Finland, too, the growing diversity of society has increased the importance of intercultural education and developing teachers' intercultural competencies to ensure inclusive, culturally responsive teaching. Furthermore, studies have shown...
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Teachers' language-, culture- and worldview-inclusive pedagogical competencies in Finnish early childhood education
The field of Finnish early childhood education (ECE) is becoming increasingly linguistically, culturally and worldview diverse, as the number of children and families from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds is rapidly increasing. Teachers need sufficient competencies and research-based foundations for implementing a language-, culture- and worldview-inclusive pedagogy. These areas of...
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Teaching sustainability and climate change in Canada and Norway
This article examines how sustainability and climate change are positioned and enacted in lower secondary classrooms in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada) and Finnmark (Norway). Guided by each jurisdiction’s curriculum, we ask how teachers understand the curricular place of these topics and how they describe teaching them in practice. The study...
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Pupils' perspective on education outside the classroom in Greenland: experiences from an action research project
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) faces a shortage of qualified professionals, making educational improvement a national priority. Yet research reveals persistent challenges in academic achievement and pupils’ motivation within Greenlandic primary schools, where book-based, in-classroom teaching predominates. This study reports findings from an action research project exploring the potential of Education Outside...
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Felted Futures: crafting transformative learning experiences in the Arctic
This article explores visual art and design education in higher education. Teachers, researchers and international Master's degree students collaborated on project-based studies aimed at supporting rural communities and the sustainability transformation in Northern Finland. Through an art-based action research approach and co-design processes, a heritage craft was revitalised for the...
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"I thought that this would be a noble act that we helped the child" - ethical tensions in early childhood education teacher's work
In Finland, especially in early childhood education (ECE), teachers leave the profession for reasons other than retirement or career advancement. Teachers are known to leave their positions for many reasons, with ethical challenges and ethical tensions representing one significant set of reasons. However, research on ethical tensions in the ECE...
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Play smartly - group intervention: changes in parental reports of child behaviour
The aim was to study whether a new group intervention for elementary school children with neuropsychiatric challenges and their families, who are worried about the children’s digital gaming, changes the children’s behaviour. The three-year Play Smartly project started in 2022 (Pelaa Fiksusti, 2025). There were nine groups, each lasting 13...
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Art history techniques and Sámi pedagogy in Norway: connecting art history, tradition and nature
This article was developed with the concept of intra-action, emphasizing a deep connection with environments and nature, and explored how intra-action in Sámi pedagogy could be linked to teaching art history to children and youth. The workshops focused on the introduction of art history and historical painting and drawing techniques...
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Arctic art education in collaboration - creating dialogues for learning
This article presents a developing process of a shared hybrid university course which aims at encouraging dialogue between Arctic communities, children and youth, teacher students, professors and local actors from cultural and educational fields. The Arctic partner universities sought to integrate contemporary art practices with Indigenous and regional knowledge systems,...
Features
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Developing place-attentive teaching and learning in initial teacher education in Scotland through the pillars of Arctic pedagogy
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Improving teacher retention in rural Alaska: an experiential place-based model
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Watch, watch, do: a discussion of the conflict between assessment and learning within Inuit Nunangat
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Towards more positive conceptions and sustainability for teacher profession in Finland