The Challenge of Educating Purposeful Teachers in Finland

Autor/inn/en	Kuusisto, Elina; Tirri, Kirsi
Titel	The Challenge of Educating Purposeful Teachers in Finland
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 11 (2021), Artikel 29 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kuusisto, Elina) ORCID (Tirri, Kirsi)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Teacher Education; Elementary School Teachers; Preservice Teachers; Ethics; Moral Values; Altruism; Goal Orientation; Value Judgment; Psychological Patterns; Interpersonal Relationship; Self Actualization; Professional Identity; Foreign Countries; Finland (Helsinki) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Werturteil; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Ausland
Abstract	This article discusses the challenges of educating teachers in Finland. As a goal in teacher education for the 21st century we propose the purposeful teacher, referring to a teacher who has a long-term moral commitment to serve students, the school community and society. Our data collected from student (N = 912) and practising (N = 77) teachers yielded information on the purposes they identified as important in their lives. The survey included quantitative instruments and open- ended questions. The teachers identified happiness, relationships, work and self-actualisation as the most important contents of their aspirations. All the content categories could be understood as potential purposes in that the benefit extended beyond the teachers themselves. However, almost half of the student teachers (46%) and over half of teachers (55%) revealed only self-orientation. Less than half of them (43%, 36%, respectively) showed a beyond-the-self orientation, which is indicative of a purposeful teacher. Among the practising teachers, teaching appeared to be mainly a mediating factor in realising their purposes or aspirations. These results have implications related to contemporary teacher education in Finland. Both pre- and in-service teachers need to know about purposeful teaching in order to find meaning in their work. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01