Student participation in learning environment improvement: analysis of a co-design project in a Finnish upper secondary school

Mäkelä, Tiina; Helfenstein, Sacha; Lerkkanen, Marja‐Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna‐Maija

doi:10.1007/s10984-017-9242-0

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“…Previous studies have found that pupil engagement is an important implementation factor for sustainable health-promotion in a school setting ( 10 ). Similar to pupils in this study, Mäkelä et al ( 38 ) showed that pupils can be full partners in designing the educational environment. Pupils' experiential knowledge can complement professional knowledge, because new perspectives may evolve from this exchange ( 39 , 40 ) and thus can improve ownership and sense of empowerment of pupils ( 28 , 41 ).…”

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confidence: 69%

Opportunities for Capacity Building to Create Healthy School Communities in the Netherlands: Focus Group Discussions With Dutch Pupils

Dongen

Vries

Ridder

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: To sustainably implement a healthy school community in which stakeholders, including pupils, feel ownership over health-promotion activities, building community capacity is important. Pupils have experiential knowledge that is complementary to professional knowledge, but their perspectives on capacity-building processes are underexposed. This study aims to explore secondary-school pupils' perceptions about key influencers on physical activity and dietary choices and starting points for building community capacity.Methods: Seven focus groups with forty one pupils were held in four secondary schools engaged in a capacity-building intervention. Transcripts were analysed thematically regarding key influencers about choices in the home and school setting and capacity-building strategies (leadership, participation, tailored health-promotion activities and local networks).Results: Parents remained important influencers for making healthy choices, but snacking choices were increasingly made independently from parents based on attractiveness, availability and cost. Choices to engage in physical activity depended on social aspects and opportunities in the physical environment. Pupils considered their influence over the healthy school community limited, desired more involvement, but require this to be facilitated. They identified leaders mainly within formal structures, for example, student councils. They believed health-promotion activities related to the physical environment and project-based activities within the curriculum have the maximum potential to stimulate healthy behaviours in school communities.Conclusion: This study shows that pupils can reflect critically on their physical activity and dietary choices, and on how this can contribute to processes in creating a healthy school community. In order to take an active role, they need to be considered as full partners and leadership roles should be facilitated in existing structures.

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confidence: 69%

Opportunities for Capacity Building to Create Healthy School Communities in the Netherlands: Focus Group Discussions With Dutch Pupils

Dongen

Vries

Ridder

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…(Respondent 19)Our analysis indicates that the respondents address students’ motivation and perseverance less explicitly; instead, they are more dependent on students’ own determination and their intrinsic (motivation to learn) or extrinsic (motivation to pass the course) motivations (Hytti et al, 2010). It is possible that co-designing a course may increase participation and motivation (Mäkelä et al, 2018), but we did not find specific indications that teachers employ teaching methods that directly address motivation and perseverance:If I’m not in control of all the content, it means that the students are learning because they are choosing the content, and not me. And that is much more motivating and interesting for them, and then they are more likely to learn.…”

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confidence: 81%

Unintentional teaching of entrepreneurial competences

Stenholm¹,

Ramström²,

Franzén³

et al. 2021

Industry and Higher Education

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Research on entrepreneurship education (EE) emphasizes the role of learning environments, contexts and pedagogical choices in developing students’ entrepreneurial competences. EE has assumed that it solely carries the task of improving entrepreneurial competences. Yet, the objectives, content and methods of teaching vary, and hence non-entrepreneurship teachers’ classrooms can also provide a learning environment for entrepreneurial competences. However, whether or not this kind of unintentional teaching of entrepreneurial competences takes place has not been widely addressed. In this study, the authors investigate how business school non-entrepreneurship teachers’ teaching methods unintentionally match the known framework of entrepreneurial competences. The findings indicate that non-entrepreneurship teachers do unintentionally expose their students to entrepreneurial competences such as creativity, learning from experience and financial literacy. However, competences such as opportunity recognition, perseverance and mobilizing resources do not receive similar attention. The findings indicate that some entrepreneurial competences are not solely owned by EE, but can be embedded in non-entrepreneurship education. Accordingly, the study extends the current understanding of EE and which “niche” competences should be emphasized in it, but also demonstrates how non-entrepreneurship teachers can expose students to entrepreneurial competences while teaching in their own subject areas.

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“…Since the diversity of green design has rich sociological connotations, it is not only the diversity of environmental functions, but also the diversity of species and the diversity of human activities. e main advantages of green materials are that they can save resource consumption, improve resource utilization, and reduce the impact on the natural ecological environment [20]. At the same time, green materials are more outstanding in function and can reflect the problems of recycling and treatment that traditional materials cannot achieve.…”

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confidence: 99%

Research on the Application Mode of Green Environment Design under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

Liu

Song

2021

Complexity

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In the field of green environmental design, the design system of environmental art is a complex and multidimensional cross-domain fusion system, which can be regarded as a large task system. The development model that combines artificial intelligence (AI) technology and green environment design can not only integrate and analyze problems quickly and efficiently but also provide designers with new design ideas, gradually extending traditional environment design concepts, producing more diverse artistic creation methods, and shifting from a fixed application model to a more diversified artistic development. Therefore, on the basis of summarizing and analyzing previous research works, this paper expounded the research status and significance of green environment design, elaborated the development background, current status, and future challenges of AI technology, introduced the network topology and platform frame structures of green environment design under the AI background, constructed a technical framework of green environment design under the AI background, analyzed the methods and principles of program design and function development, proposed the application model of green environment design under the AI background, conducted design function model optimization and intelligent design process analysis, and finally discussed the evaluation indicators and hierarchical analysis of the green environment design under the AI background. The results show that the application mode of combining AI technology and green environment design can not only help designers break through traditional time and space barriers and use multidimensional thinking but also help designers have a new understanding of artistic design concept and give full play to the advantages of artificial intelligence in a green environment. The study results of this paper provide a reference for further research on the application mode of green environment design under the AI background.

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Student participation in learning environment improvement: analysis of a co-design project in a Finnish upper secondary school

Cited by 37 publications

References 28 publications

Opportunities for Capacity Building to Create Healthy School Communities in the Netherlands: Focus Group Discussions With Dutch Pupils

Opportunities for Capacity Building to Create Healthy School Communities in the Netherlands: Focus Group Discussions With Dutch Pupils

Unintentional teaching of entrepreneurial competences

Research on the Application Mode of Green Environment Design under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

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