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  • Innovaatiotutkimuksen hyödyntäminen opetussuunnitelman käyttöönotossa 
    Holmström, Julia (2018)
    This study investigates how innovation research could support the implementation of the curriculum of basic education. Previous studies have shown that some of the teachers experience problems with the curricula and in their implementation phases. These problems include lack of argumentation to support the reforms, insufficient resources and training. The topic of the study was also important in order to comply with the legislation that states that the students are entitled to be educated according to the curriculum. The search engines and databases used in the research were Helka, Arto, Helmet and Google Scholar. There was a lot of material, so selecting the final sources required a lot of sorting out. Essential information was selected after a thorough investigation of the material. Answers to the research questions are based on a considerate theory comparison. It was found out in the study that the utilization of innovation research is in some respects suitable to support the implementation phase of the curriculum. There were several thought processes that could be used both on national and local levels. Teachers who received or found more and better arguments for the reforms are able to implement the curriculum in a better way. Minimizing the time and effort involved in adapting the changes would also help in implementing the curriculum. Additionally, adoption would be easier if the teacher discovered the benefits for the community – in this case the pupils and society in general. The thought processes that are based on innovations and created in order to support the implementation of the curriculum imply that innovation research could be used to gain other ad-vantages in the development of the curriculum process.
  • ”Ja tää on ihan tosi kaoottista.” : luokanopettajien kokemia haasteita peruskoulun opetussuunnitelmauudistuksessa syksyllä 2016 
    Lönnrot, Susanna (2018)
    Changing school is a difficult task. Since classroom teachers are in such a significant role in bringing the change into practice, their experience in the change process is important. Previous studies show that school reforms usually either fail or don’t reach the goals set to them. The purpose of this Bachelor’s Thesis was to bring more understanding to challenges caused by school reforms. The research task is to depict what challenges classroom teachers articulate when talking about their experiences during the national curriculum reform in autumn 2016. The theoretical framework consists of studies about school change and previous school reforms and the typical challenges with them. Also personal challenges with change are addressed by theories about going beyond ones comfort zone and dealing with change. With these theories it is possible to understand more about the complexity and difficulty of school change and find reasons why school reforms fail so often. At the end of the theoretical framework there’s an introduction to the main characteristics of the national curriculum reform that became valid in autumn 2016. The data of this study was collected by interviewing two classroom teachers living in the Helsinki metropolitan area using the method of semi-structured interview. The interviewees were chosen by a pre-survey where they told that they felt like being outside their comfort zone during the curriculum reform. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using content analysis and comparing the data to previous studies. The found challenges were divided into internal and external challenges. The major challenges were inadequacy of preparation, lack of resources, external demands, lack of realism, dealing with change and skepticism.

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