Intro to masters studies

TTEE teaches what they research and they research what they teach, whether that be teacher education, adult education. This group of individuals left quite a positive impression on me. Their research in particular I found to be very intriguing because they do not draw hard lines in regards to what is fair game for research. The educational process itself is also an institution that doesn’t get talked about enough. I was overjoyed to hear them talking about re-theorizing education  and developing new methods to advance empirical knowledge. More importantly however was learning that this department collaborates with everyone! At risk of sounding callous, the educational studies field can be connected to anything and educational studies for the sake of educational studies limits the benefit that the work and research being done in our field can have on the broader population. I found the article on Young Children’s Belonging in Finnish Education settings to have really piqued my inte...

The whole purpose of this course is to gain a general overview of the faculty of education and the types of research being done and who is doing that research, It is important for us to understand all of the different types of educational research going on at the university because we never know where our inspiration could come from. It is also very important that we are exposed to different ways of approaching the field of educational studies. These lectures will help me to gain the knowledge and understanding I need so that I may have the deepest understanding of the tools and resources at my disposal through the university. The reason that I chose the Learning, Education and Technology masters program is because I found the research that they are doing to be the most fascinating. Specifically Dindar, M., Ren, Lei., & Järvenoja, H. (2020). An experimental study on the effects of gamified cooperation and competition on English vocabulary learning. British Journal of Educational. T...