Educational professionals views on teachers innovativity

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Educational professionals views on teachers
innovativity

• University of Turku,
• Department of Teacher education, Rauma
• Siltala Reijo, researcher
• Tenhunen Anu, lecturer, researcher
• Keskinen Soili, professor
• Alajääski Jarkko, lecturer
• Laurea University of Applied Sciences
• Espoo (Polytechnic)
• Suomala Jyrki, yliopettaja, lecturer
• Taatila Vesa, yliopettaja, lecturer

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Background

• Educational innovations and innovativity in
  teaching -project
• Funding Ministry of Employment and the economy
• Duration until 4/2009
• Keskinen Siltala Tenhunen (Rauma)
• Suomala Taatila (Espoo)

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Innovativity

• Essential for the success of an organization
  (HamelPrahalad)
• Birth of innovation is often seen as a result of
  shared expertise (Thagard)
• Educational innovativity has often been
  understood as technical gizmos or strongly
  method-oriented

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Research problems

• In this research we tried to clarify
• How Finnish educational
• professionals understand
• innovativativity in teachers work?

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Data

• Likert-scale questionnaire (paper- and
  internet-version)
• 57 items
• Total n485
• Teachers total n428
• Class teacher students, Teachers (basic
  education), teachers (higher education)
• Deliberate sample
• Bigger Finnish cities and also smaller
  countryside villages

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Data (2)
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Data (3)
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Data (4)
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Results
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Results
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Thank You!
Reijo Siltala University of Turku Department of
Teacher Education Rauma reijo.siltala_at_utu.fi http
//users.utu.fi/repesi/