Browsing by Author "Rossinen, Eveliina"

The purpose of this study is to examine a certain teacher’s ICT-oriented pedagogy and to clarify what applications this teacher uses in school and why. The aim was to find out this certain teacher’s views on ICT and media’s benefits and disadvantages. The general interest was also in how the Finnish national core curriculum and participation affects this certain teacher’s teaching. The target of this case study was chosen for one’s advanced ICT-skills. Previous studies and the Finnish national core curriculum show that the use of ICT in schools is increasing. Also, the use of ICT and media in teaching influence the development of future working skills. The mission of this study is to clarify and describe certain teacher’s ICT-oriented pedagogy. The study was conducted by qualitative approach interviewing one teacher in April 2016. The interview was a semi-structured interview. In the analysis, the material was categorized from large categories to smaller ones using the help of the questions used in the interview. The study showed that this certain teacher uses a lot of technology and various kinds of media applications in his/hers teaching. The teacher was able to indicate many different benefits and disadvantages of the use of ICT and media concerning the society, home, school, teachers and pupils. The teacher’s visions on developing pupils’ future working skills correlated with the Finnish national core curriculum and views presented in the theoretical part of this study. Participation became one of the keywords of this study as it was noted to be one of the most essential elements in the certain teacher’s pedagogy. Participation is also an important part of the new Finnish national core curriculum. This study focused only on one teacher. In the future, it would be interesting to examine how the new, more ICT-oriented Finnish national core curriculum affects other teachers teaching and pedagogical views.