Summary information

Study title

Professional Role, Identity and Information Acquisition of Teachers 2003-2004

Creator

Jokiniemi, Sinikka (University of Tampere. Department of Information Studies)

Study number / PID

FSD2373 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2373 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2373 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

20 teachers of Jämsä vocational school were interviewed about their conceptions of their identities and roles as teachers and also about their ways of information retrieval. The interviewees were asked, among others, questions about their job and tasks at work, importance and role of information seeking, and changes in the teaching profession. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

07/11/2003 - 09/03/2004

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Teachers working in Jämsä vocational school

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Related publications

  • Jokiniemi, Sinikka (2005). Opettajien Informaatiohorisontit. Ammatillisen tiedon hankinta ammatti-identiteetin näkökulmasta. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Informaatiotutkimuksen pro gradu-tutkielma.
  • Hokkanen, Ninni. (2023). "Tärkeintä on, että on sen oppimisen asiantuntija" - ammatillisten opettajien osaamisvaatimukset ja työnkuvan muutokset. Kasvatustieteen kandidaatintutkielma. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopisto.