A Modern Idea of the School

Kontio, Kimmo; Pikkarainen, Eetu; Siljander, Pauli

doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-827-3_1

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“…There were nine major groups of concrete means, in addition to which there were a few individual mentions. The groups were recycling (in 16 essays), food education [13], economical use of materials [11], saving electricity [8], ecological mobility [7], recycling [5], tackling littering [3], responsibility for school procurement [3], and water saving [2]. In their essays, SSTs mentioned concrete ways to achieve more ecologically sustainable schooling 27 times, while PSTs mentioned these 40 times.…”

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“…School is not just a context for "spontaneously running learning processes" [1] or the immediate learning in social intercourse and direct dealings with diverse aspects of everyday life [2]. A school is a community of students, teachers, experts, administrators, and other staff members whose main purpose is the education of students and providing support for both students and staff.…”

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School Culture Promoting Sustainability in Student Teachers’ Views

2022

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School culture includes values, principles, and criteria. It is an integral part of sustainability education, of which climate change education (CCE) is seen as a way to improve students’ ability to take action to mitigate climate change. This survey aimed to investigate Finnish student teachers’ views of factors important in implementing CCE in school culture and their abilities as teachers to promote CCE. Thirty-six student teachers wrote essays regarding the implementation of school culture and responded to a questionnaire concerning their ability to act as climate change (CC) educators and the challenges they identified in teaching and learning about it. Inductive content analysis was used to study the essays. In student teachers’ answers, six themes to implement in school culture were identified: elements, work community, teacher’s impact, students in the centre, actors outside the school, and challenges. The student teachers highlighted challenges, such as views that deny CC and challenge the transformation of school culture to support sustainable development. The suggested ways to support CCE in daily school life that were very concrete, such as recycling and food education. Student teachers found their own ability to act as climate educators to be relatively good. They identified challenges, especially in motivating students to learn about CC and to participate and take action towards a climate-friendly lifestyle. Students’ conflicting attitudes, values, and beliefs related to CC, reinforced by their inner circle, were seen as challenges in teaching and learning about CC. Despite these challenges, transforming a school culture to support CCE should be the goal of every school.

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School Culture Promoting Sustainability in Student Teachers’ Views

2022

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“…Hoff meyer 1995; Tønnessen et al 2015). Th is normative content also means that Bildung is always connected to education as an intentional and institutional activity (Kontio et al 2017).…”

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Adaptation, learning, Bildung: Discussion with edu- and biosemiotics

Pikkarainen

2018

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Learning and adaptation are central problems to both edusemiotics, or semiotics of education, and biosemiotics. Bildung, as an especially human way or form of learning, and evolution as the main form of adaptation for many biologists after Darwin are often regarded as mutually exclusive concepts even though human beings are undeniably one biological species among others. In this article I will try to build a bridge between the biosemiotical, edusemiotical and Bildung-theoretical stances. Central to this discussion is biosemiotician Kalevi Kull and some of his recent publications where he considers adaptation, evolution and learning. The primary theoretical resource that I utilize here, in addition to the general Greimassian, edusemiotical and Bildung-theoretical starting points, is perceptual control theory (PCT) to which I compare the Uexküllian conception of functional circle.

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A Modern Idea of the School

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School Culture Promoting Sustainability in Student Teachers’ Views

School Culture Promoting Sustainability in Student Teachers’ Views

Adaptation, learning, Bildung: Discussion with edu- and biosemiotics

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