The learner´s self-conception and positive pedagogy (5cr)
Code: C-01918-KAPS0116V24-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 12.08.2025 - 06.11.2025
- Registration for the implementation has begun.
- Timing
- 01.11.2025 - 31.07.2026
- The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Institution
- University of Lapland
- Teaching languages
- English
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 60
- Course
- C-01918-KAPS0116V24
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
Having completed the course, the student - is familiar with and recognises the salient theories and aspects of educational and learning psychology research and its latest trends - understands the meaning of the principles of learning and individual and communal factors - can apply knowledge of educational psychology to supporting positive learning -
Methods of completion
Contact teaching: 12 h of online lectures, which are recorded Independent work: 121 h Teaching profile: ONLINE 1
Methods of completion
Listening to lectures, completing lectures and literature as a written assignment.
Content
On this research-oriented course, students learn about the salient individual and communal factors that account for human learning. They also become familiar with learning, its principles, crises in the various phases of life. In addition, the course includes familiarization with the possibilities and methods of advancing positive learning and development, and the educational psychological foundation of positive pedagogy.
Materials
For additional reading, see the article bank on the topics: - The perspective of growth, development and support - Love and relationships - Positive pedagogy and learning - Well-being and success at work - Drawing from the Arctic - Sustainability in Educational Psychology -
Qualifications
No prior knowledge requirements