ABSTRACT

From the end of the 1970s, all teacher education programmes have been a part of academic higher education in Finland. Thus, TE has been implemented in universities and all Finnish comprehensive and upper-secondary school teachers have a master’s degree. Research methods courses have been an essential part of teacher education courses for over 40 years. Our results revealed that students in all educational programmes seem to prefer empirical methods to theoretical methods as a way of acquiring educational knowledge. In line with previous studies, an aversion to quantitative methods was also found in the present study. However, there were some exceptions to this overall view. Most of the students in our study recognized that teachers need research skills in their practical work. The students acknowledged that these kinds of skills are especially important when acquainting themselves with new research results in their professional field.

摘要

从1970年代末开始，所有教师教育计划都已成为芬兰学术高等教育的一部分。因此，TE已在大学中实施，所有芬兰的综合和高中教师都拥有硕士学位。40多年来，研究方法课程一直是教师教育课程的重要组成部分。我们的结果表明，所有教育课程中的学生似乎都更喜欢经验方法而不是理论方法来获取教育知识。与以前的研究一致，在本研究中也发现了对定量方法的厌恶。但是，这种总体观点有一些例外。我们研究中的大多数学生都认识到，教师在他们的实际工作中需要研究技能。