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Our Farm

Jan

2011

A Storyline Topic in a primary school in Pargas, Finland Ann-Catherine Henriksson The curriculum in year five in the primary school in Finland tells us to teach about how our food is produced and about the plants and the animals that provides us with food. Although we live in a small town many of the ...

Staffansby Primary School, Helsinki, Finland

Feb

2010

In 2009 the staff of Staffansby Primary School came on a study tour to Scotland. Although based in Edinburgh they made the trip through to Old Kilpatrick to see Storyline being used very successfully by the staff of Gavinburn Primary School in the District of West Dunbartonshire. They were so impressed by what they saw ...

Chydenius University, Kokkola, Finland

Feb

2010

33 Teachers from the Kokkola area of Finland attended this two day course on Storyline which was organised by Anette Dahlvik, Director of Inservice at the University. The new building provided a beautiful working environment for the participants. There was a wide variety of experience and interest in the group and several of those attending ...

Article in Finnish Journal

May

2007

Ann-Maj Björkell-Holm, who works for the Inservice department of the Åbo Akademi in Vasa, Finland, has written an article about the creative activities involved in working with a Storyline topic. This is published in the Åbo University’s Educational Journal which is interestingly named ‘Hett Stoff’ translated as ‘Hot Stuff’. The publication is dated 3-4/2002 and ...

Storyline Study by Finnish Researcher

Jun

2005

Riikka Pyysalo is a Finnish PhD student in Education at the University of Cambridge, England. Her background is in educational studies, sociology and learning psychology and she completed her earlier studies at the University of Helsinki and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. While she has mainly pursued the research path she has always been interested in ...

New Book from Finland (in Swedish)

Jun

2001

Anna-Lena Östern, professor of mothertongue didactics in the Faculty of Education of the Åbo Akademi in Vasa, Finland,has written this new book on the teaching of mothertongue (Swedish) .It is published by Utbildningsstyrelsen, the Board of Education. In one of the chapters she describes using storyline in the teaching of mothertongue, and includes a story ...

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