Erika Löfström
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika Löfström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika |
| FAMILY NAME | Löfström |
| SIGNATURE | LÖFSTRÖM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0838-9626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Meaningful Learning in Finnish Mathematics Teaching Online In-Service Training: Two Denotations
In this research, we investigated learning during online in-service training for teachers of mathematics. It is recognised that the need to develop professional knowledge and skills continues throughout one’s career, and this is highly applicable to the teaching profession. In the study, we applied the Meaningful Learning model as a theoretical lens. Data were collected through questionnaires completed three times (first time measuring expectatio…
Disrupted studying? University students’ experiences of remote vs. on-site teaching and learning
The purpose of this study was to investigate how students’ experiences of their teaching–learning environment, academic self-efficacy, approaches to learning and study-related burnout differed in emergency remote teaching compared to on-site teaching. Data were collected from social science and education students on four separate occasions via the electronic HowULearn questionnaire: namely during on-site studying (spring 2018 and spring 2019) (N …
The grey zone between individualised goal and actual need: A CHAT analysis of student counselling within VET
The ambiguous policy-concepts ‘effectivity’ and ‘needs’ were introduced to Finnish VET. This research utilises cultural historical activity theory to analyse how different conflicting motives emerge within student counselling and to discuss the prospective development of VET. Managerialist approaches to accountability and competency-based training form a tension between the needs of persons in counselling on the one hand and effectiveness of coun…
Research Ethics Committee and Integrity Board Members’ Collaborative Decision Making in Cases in a Training Setting
This research focuses on how research ethics committee and integrity board members discuss and decide on solutions to case scenarios that involve a dimension of research ethics or integrity in collaborative settings. The cases involved issues around authorship, conflict of interest, disregard of good scientific practice and ethics review, and research with vulnerable populations (children and neonates). The cases were set in a university, a hospi…
A Pedagogy for Teaching Research Ethics and Integrity in the Social Sciences: Case-Based and Collaborative Learning
Profiles of doctoral students’ experience of ethics in supervision: An inter-country comparison
The purpose of this study was to examine variation in doctoral students’ experiences of ethics in doctoral supervision and how these experiences are related to research engagement, burnout, satisfaction, and intending to discontinue PhD studies. Data were collected from 860 doctoral students in Finland, Estonia, and South Africa. Four distinct profiles of ethics experience in doctoral supervision were identified, namely students puzzled by the su…
Disruptive Environmental Communication
Scaffolding Collaborative Case-Based Learning during Research Ethics Training
As development of research ethics competencies is in the focus in higher education (HE) institutions, it is crucial to understand how to support the learning process during such training. While there is plenty of research on how to scaffold children’s learning of cognitive skills, there is limited knowledge on how to enhance collaborative case-based learning of research ethics competencies in HE contexts. Our aim was to identify whether, how and …
Conceptions of Plagiarism and Problems in Academic Writing in a Changing Landscape of External Regulation
Ethics in the supervisory relationship: Supervisors' and Doctoral Students' Dilemmas in the Natural and Behavioural Sciences
This study explored the perceptions of ethical issues in supervision among doctoral students and supervisors. The nature of ethical issues identified by doctoral students (n = 28) and their supervisors (n = 14) is explored and the degree of fit and misfit between their perceptions in two cases representing the natural and behavioural sciences is analysed. Supervisors and students identified different ethical issues, which suggest that there are a…
Conceptualizing interculturality in multicultural teacher education
This study examined student teachers’ and teacher educators’ discourses about multiculturalism in an international English-medium teacher education programme in Finland. An analysis with discursive pragmatics of semi-structured interviews revealed four positioning strategies for initial responses to multiculturalism: stereotyping and othering, distancing oneself, verbalizing experiences and downplaying multiculturalism. Although the same strategi…
Reactively, Proactively, Implicitly, Explicitly? Academics’ Pedagogical Conceptions of how to Promote Research Ethics and Integrity
I wish I had a crystal ball: Discourses and Potentials for Developing Academic Supervising
Academic supervision of PhD dissertations and master's theses has traditionally been conceptualised as the pedagogy of the dyadic relationship between master and apprentice. Recently, researchers have argued for a more systemic approach. Yet, many communities lack practices for sharing the pedagogical responsibility of supervision. Consequently, individual teachers face the challenges of supervision alone. We have been involved in university peda…
The development of academics’ teacher identity: Enhancing reflection and task perception through a university teacher development programme
Teaching research integrity in higher education: Policy and strategy
Recently published research suggested that university academics have qualitatively disparate views on some key aspects of teaching research integrity within the broader construct of academic integrity and surprisingly ambiguous views on others. In the light of this variation, we have reviewed the research and academic integrity policies of our institutions, and the relevant international literature, with respect to six areas of interest in order …
Teachers’ Views of Curriculum Policy: The Case of Estonia
Unlike in England, since the late 1980s the rhetoric of curriculum reforms has been overwhelmingly decentralist in many countries. However, decentralisation has often involved the delegation of centrally appointed tasks, rather than a real shift in power. The Estonian case demonstrates how a decentralised curriculum policy with centralised control can have the same de-professionalising effect on teachers' perceived professional autonomy as does a…
The Instructional Challenges of Student Plagiarism
Beliefs about teaching: Persistent or malleable? A longitudinal study of prospective student teachers' beliefs
The Supervisory Relationship as an Arena for Ethical Problem Solving
Doctoral supervision involves the analysis of situations and decision making, some of which include ethical perspectives. This research endeavoured to gain a better understanding of the nature of the ethical problems encountered by supervisors. We have interviewed fourteen supervisors in two disciplines: the natural sciences and the behavioural sciences. We have identified the ethical issues in light of five ethical principles, namely respect for…
Does Plagiarism Mean anything? LOL.” Students’ Conceptions of Writing and Citing
Novice teachers' perspectives on mentoring: The case of the Estonian induction year
Beliefs about teaching: Persistent or malleable? A longitudinal study of prospective student teachers' beliefs
The Instructional Challenges of Student Plagiarism
Novice teachers' perspectives on mentoring: The case of the Estonian induction year
Teachers’ Views of Curriculum Policy: The Case of Estonia
Unlike in England, since the late 1980s the rhetoric of curriculum reforms has been overwhelmingly decentralist in many countries. However, decentralisation has often involved the delegation of centrally appointed tasks, rather than a real shift in power. The Estonian case demonstrates how a decentralised curriculum policy with centralised control can have the same de-professionalising effect on teachers' perceived professional autonomy as does a…
Conceptualizing interculturality in multicultural teacher education
This study examined student teachers’ and teacher educators’ discourses about multiculturalism in an international English-medium teacher education programme in Finland. An analysis with discursive pragmatics of semi-structured interviews revealed four positioning strategies for initial responses to multiculturalism: stereotyping and othering, distancing oneself, verbalizing experiences and downplaying multiculturalism. Although the same strategi…
The Supervisory Relationship as an Arena for Ethical Problem Solving
Doctoral supervision involves the analysis of situations and decision making, some of which include ethical perspectives. This research endeavoured to gain a better understanding of the nature of the ethical problems encountered by supervisors. We have interviewed fourteen supervisors in two disciplines: the natural sciences and the behavioural sciences. We have identified the ethical issues in light of five ethical principles, namely respect for…
Does Plagiarism Mean anything? LOL.” Students’ Conceptions of Writing and Citing
Reactively, Proactively, Implicitly, Explicitly? Academics’ Pedagogical Conceptions of how to Promote Research Ethics and Integrity
Teaching research integrity in higher education: Policy and strategy
Recently published research suggested that university academics have qualitatively disparate views on some key aspects of teaching research integrity within the broader construct of academic integrity and surprisingly ambiguous views on others. In the light of this variation, we have reviewed the research and academic integrity policies of our institutions, and the relevant international literature, with respect to six areas of interest in order …
I wish I had a crystal ball: Discourses and Potentials for Developing Academic Supervising
Academic supervision of PhD dissertations and master's theses has traditionally been conceptualised as the pedagogy of the dyadic relationship between master and apprentice. Recently, researchers have argued for a more systemic approach. Yet, many communities lack practices for sharing the pedagogical responsibility of supervision. Consequently, individual teachers face the challenges of supervision alone. We have been involved in university peda…
Scaffolding Collaborative Case-Based Learning during Research Ethics Training
As development of research ethics competencies is in the focus in higher education (HE) institutions, it is crucial to understand how to support the learning process during such training. While there is plenty of research on how to scaffold children’s learning of cognitive skills, there is limited knowledge on how to enhance collaborative case-based learning of research ethics competencies in HE contexts. Our aim was to identify whether, how and …
Conceptions of Plagiarism and Problems in Academic Writing in a Changing Landscape of External Regulation
Ethics in the supervisory relationship: Supervisors' and Doctoral Students' Dilemmas in the Natural and Behavioural Sciences
This study explored the perceptions of ethical issues in supervision among doctoral students and supervisors. The nature of ethical issues identified by doctoral students (n = 28) and their supervisors (n = 14) is explored and the degree of fit and misfit between their perceptions in two cases representing the natural and behavioural sciences is analysed. Supervisors and students identified different ethical issues, which suggest that there are a…
Novice teachers' perspectives on mentoring: The case of the Estonian induction year
Does Plagiarism Mean anything? LOL.” Students’ Conceptions of Writing and Citing
The Supervisory Relationship as an Arena for Ethical Problem Solving
Doctoral supervision involves the analysis of situations and decision making, some of which include ethical perspectives. This research endeavoured to gain a better understanding of the nature of the ethical problems encountered by supervisors. We have interviewed fourteen supervisors in two disciplines: the natural sciences and the behavioural sciences. We have identified the ethical issues in light of five ethical principles, namely respect for…
The Instructional Challenges of Student Plagiarism
Beliefs about teaching: Persistent or malleable? A longitudinal study of prospective student teachers' beliefs
Teachers’ Views of Curriculum Policy: The Case of Estonia
Unlike in England, since the late 1980s the rhetoric of curriculum reforms has been overwhelmingly decentralist in many countries. However, decentralisation has often involved the delegation of centrally appointed tasks, rather than a real shift in power. The Estonian case demonstrates how a decentralised curriculum policy with centralised control can have the same de-professionalising effect on teachers' perceived professional autonomy as does a…
The development of academics’ teacher identity: Enhancing reflection and task perception through a university teacher development programme
Teaching research integrity in higher education: Policy and strategy
Recently published research suggested that university academics have qualitatively disparate views on some key aspects of teaching research integrity within the broader construct of academic integrity and surprisingly ambiguous views on others. In the light of this variation, we have reviewed the research and academic integrity policies of our institutions, and the relevant international literature, with respect to six areas of interest in order …
Conceptualizing interculturality in multicultural teacher education
This study examined student teachers’ and teacher educators’ discourses about multiculturalism in an international English-medium teacher education programme in Finland. An analysis with discursive pragmatics of semi-structured interviews revealed four positioning strategies for initial responses to multiculturalism: stereotyping and othering, distancing oneself, verbalizing experiences and downplaying multiculturalism. Although the same strategi…
Reactively, Proactively, Implicitly, Explicitly? Academics’ Pedagogical Conceptions of how to Promote Research Ethics and Integrity
I wish I had a crystal ball: Discourses and Potentials for Developing Academic Supervising
Academic supervision of PhD dissertations and master's theses has traditionally been conceptualised as the pedagogy of the dyadic relationship between master and apprentice. Recently, researchers have argued for a more systemic approach. Yet, many communities lack practices for sharing the pedagogical responsibility of supervision. Consequently, individual teachers face the challenges of supervision alone. We have been involved in university peda…
Conceptions of Plagiarism and Problems in Academic Writing in a Changing Landscape of External Regulation
Ethics in the supervisory relationship: Supervisors' and Doctoral Students' Dilemmas in the Natural and Behavioural Sciences
This study explored the perceptions of ethical issues in supervision among doctoral students and supervisors. The nature of ethical issues identified by doctoral students (n = 28) and their supervisors (n = 14) is explored and the degree of fit and misfit between their perceptions in two cases representing the natural and behavioural sciences is analysed. Supervisors and students identified different ethical issues, which suggest that there are a…
Scaffolding Collaborative Case-Based Learning during Research Ethics Training
As development of research ethics competencies is in the focus in higher education (HE) institutions, it is crucial to understand how to support the learning process during such training. While there is plenty of research on how to scaffold children’s learning of cognitive skills, there is limited knowledge on how to enhance collaborative case-based learning of research ethics competencies in HE contexts. Our aim was to identify whether, how and …
Disruptive Environmental Communication
A Pedagogy for Teaching Research Ethics and Integrity in the Social Sciences: Case-Based and Collaborative Learning
Profiles of doctoral students’ experience of ethics in supervision: An inter-country comparison
The purpose of this study was to examine variation in doctoral students’ experiences of ethics in doctoral supervision and how these experiences are related to research engagement, burnout, satisfaction, and intending to discontinue PhD studies. Data were collected from 860 doctoral students in Finland, Estonia, and South Africa. Four distinct profiles of ethics experience in doctoral supervision were identified, namely students puzzled by the su…
The grey zone between individualised goal and actual need: A CHAT analysis of student counselling within VET
The ambiguous policy-concepts ‘effectivity’ and ‘needs’ were introduced to Finnish VET. This research utilises cultural historical activity theory to analyse how different conflicting motives emerge within student counselling and to discuss the prospective development of VET. Managerialist approaches to accountability and competency-based training form a tension between the needs of persons in counselling on the one hand and effectiveness of coun…
Research Ethics Committee and Integrity Board Members’ Collaborative Decision Making in Cases in a Training Setting
This research focuses on how research ethics committee and integrity board members discuss and decide on solutions to case scenarios that involve a dimension of research ethics or integrity in collaborative settings. The cases involved issues around authorship, conflict of interest, disregard of good scientific practice and ethics review, and research with vulnerable populations (children and neonates). The cases were set in a university, a hospi…
Meaningful Learning in Finnish Mathematics Teaching Online In-Service Training: Two Denotations
In this research, we investigated learning during online in-service training for teachers of mathematics. It is recognised that the need to develop professional knowledge and skills continues throughout one’s career, and this is highly applicable to the teaching profession. In the study, we applied the Meaningful Learning model as a theoretical lens. Data were collected through questionnaires completed three times (first time measuring expectatio…
Disrupted studying? University students’ experiences of remote vs. on-site teaching and learning
The purpose of this study was to investigate how students’ experiences of their teaching–learning environment, academic self-efficacy, approaches to learning and study-related burnout differed in emergency remote teaching compared to on-site teaching. Data were collected from social science and education students on four separate occasions via the electronic HowULearn questionnaire: namely during on-site studying (spring 2018 and spring 2019) (N …
Psychology (16 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Academic integrity and plagiarism (7 works) · Engineering ethics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works)