Inkeri Rissanen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take up the two-fold task of creating a framework for a growth mindset pedagogy on the basis of their previous studies and exploring the critical points of this pedagology in the classroom of a mixed-mindset teacher.

TL;DR: The authors examined how Finnish student teachers develop intercultural sensitivity through self-reflective learning processes in a pilot course on cultures and religions in education and found that students' willingness to engage in self-reflection as a necessary starting point for developing ethno-relative orientation to diversity and sensitivity to religious identities.

TL;DR: In this article implicit theories concerning the malleability of human qualities are known to have a powerful impact on motivation and learning, but their role in moral education is an under-researched topic.

TL;DR: This paper examined teachers' implicit meaning systems built around their core beliefs on the malleability of human qualities, and found that these implicit theories influence their ways of interpreting students' behavior, learning, and achievements, which in turn guide teachers' pedagogical thinking and their practices for motivating the students.

TL;DR: This article proposed a set of scholarly approaches to improving equity in education, including culturally responsive education, promote multicultural recognition of diversity, and abandon color-blindness as an ineffec...