10 Insights to Enhance the Joy of Learning

The purpose of the research of Taina Rantala and Kaarina Määttä is “to create a concept of the joy of learning and the factors enhancing it in the classroom environment.” Using a combination of video and photography, they observed 7 to 8-year-olds engaged in the learning experience of a Finnish school class. Based on the transcriptions of the students’ emotional dialogue and actions, they came up with ten “theses” of the joy of learning.