Oppimateriaalien kulttuuri-, katsomus- ja kielitietoisuus

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Opettajien käsitykset oppimateriaalien kulttuuri-, katsomus- ja kielitietoisuudesta

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Зависимость сферы занятости населения от стратегической модели развития экономики

Рассмотрены выделенные современной наукой модели развития экономики: индустриальная, постиндустриальная и информационная (сервисная), а также их основные особенности в контексте формирования занятости и развития экономической активности населения. Обоснованы специфические черты инновационной модели развития страны, которая непосредственно основывается на получении новых научных результатов и их технологическом внедрении в производство

Cultural, worldview and language awareness as concepts of school development

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Educating for the Future and for Life : A Case Study of Ethical Considerations in Promoting the Use of Digital Technologies in Teaching and Learning in Finnish Basic Education

The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation of digitalisation in Finnish basic education by defining the ethical questions and considerations faced by different actors of a local ICT project. As the research topic was rather new, interview questions and themes were selected to reveal basic ethical considerations: motives, purposes, duties, norms, values and principles. This study was implemented as a case study. The interviews were implemented in two different parts and analysed in two phases. First phase was about identifying the ethical themes by interviewing four local municipality coordinators to explore the ethical challenges and questions faced while implementing a digitalisation project in ten municipalities located around Helsinki metropolitan area. The second phase was a cross section, a collection of perspectives from different levels of basic education. In the second phase the total of four interviews were arranged as theme interviews.Collected qualitative data was analysed using content analysis methods. Based on the results good starting points were established for the ethical debate brought about by digital technologies in the field of basic education. Values seem to affect decision making strongly and equality and equity were mentioned as the most important values. The attitude towards digital technologies was mainly positive as another pedagogical tool, but the idea of ICT as an object of learning didn’t receive support. The interviewees agreed that commercialism is increasing in education, but did not see that as a major concern. Special attention should be paid to increase understanding between everyday school work and administrative decision-making. In addition, cooperations between schools and private companies require research for the future purposes

Leading school with diverse worldviews : Finnish principals' perceptions

The purpose of this study was to find out what kind of worldviews Finnish principals identify in their schools and the kind of lived realities of worldviews that are affecting schools from the perspective of school leadership. The issues were considered using a wide worldview framework, which includes religious and non-religious worldviews and focused on the lived realities of worldviews. Seven principals in basic education were interviewed, and the resulting data were analysed using both inductive and deductive content analysis methods. According to the results, diversity and a plurality of worldviews was emphasised in the schools, principals identifying a total of 30 different worldviews including both religious and non-religious worldviews. The lived realities of worldviews were separated into four categories; worldviews in school practices, the neutrality of schools, visibility of individuals' worldviews, and worldviews education. The principals' role and responsibility in accepting actualisations were emphasised and there were differences in how principals considered and accepted the visibility of worldviews in schools.Peer reviewe

Conceptions of Diversity Among Finnish Principals

Principals have a crucial role when leading the school community towards more responsive and equitable education. Changes in Finnish society have occurred rapidly, and there is a gap in Finnish research concerning diversity in education and leadership. Our aim with this study was to form an understanding of Finnish comprehensive school principals’ conceptions of diversity. Richard Milner’s (2010) outlining of the conceptual repertoires of diversity formed the basis for this examination. This study is a quantitative analysis of the responses of Finnish comprehensive school principals to a questionnaire. The results were obtained through two separate analyses: descriptive analysis about principals’ approaches to conceptions of diversity and cluster analysis to identify the profiles of principals based on their diversity conceptions. As a result, we described Finnish principals’ conceptions of diversity, as well as identifying five profiles: the Encouragers, the Understanders, the Delegators, the Adjusters and the Discreets.peerReviewe

Performance of LTCC embedded SiC gas sensors

A novel approach to encapsulation/packaging of SiC field effect transistor gas sensors for high temperature applications, such as exhaust and fuel gas emissions monitoring, based on direct co-firing of sensor devices and Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) has been investigated. Structural (SEM, EDX, XPS), electrical (I/V, C/V) as well as gas sensing characterization of packaged devices has shown that the “one-step” packaging process forms a hermetic package with retained transducer functionality and gas sensing characteristics without the need for any separate die attachment, (wire) bonding, and/or sealing of the package. Long-term stability testing at elevated temperatures of packaged devices has also shown promising results

Performance of LTCC embedded SiC gas sensors

A novel approach to encapsulation/packaging of SiC field effect transistor gas sensors for high temperature applications, such as exhaust and fuel gas emissions monitoring, based on direct co-firing of sensor devices and Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) has been investigated. Structural (SEM, EDX, XPS), electrical (I/V, C/V) as well as gas sensing characterization of packaged devices has shown that the “one-step” packaging process forms a hermetic package with retained transducer functionality and gas sensing characteristics without the need for any separate die attachment, (wire) bonding, and/or sealing of the package. Long-term stability testing at elevated temperatures of packaged devices has also shown promising results

LTCC, new packaging approach for toxic gas and particle detection

Packaging of chemical sensors is still an area, which is not much explored. Low temperature co-fired ceramic, LTCC, packaging offers large advantages in terms of 3D design, integration of advanced functionality and fast processing. SiC based FET gas sensors are possible to integrate directly in the LTCC co-firing process at 850 °C, whereby both high temperature and other advanced applications like ultra-low detection of toxic gases are greatly improved. The LTCC packaging is also used for development of particle detectors as well as packaging for an electrical method to detect toxic effect on cells by particles