On Some Aspects of the Lilleoru Community by Kaidi Tamm

“…This paper explores the raison d’être of the only proper Estonian ecovillage, Lilleoru. Exceptional in the Estonian context, this relatively small and young community is a member of three established international networks uniting similar communities. …”
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The influence of rater empathy, age and experience on writing performance assessment by Pilvi Alp, Anu Epner, Hille Pajupuu

“…We have studied the influence of empathy, age and experience on the assessment of the writing component in Estonian Language proficiency examinations at levels A2–C1, and the effect of the rater properties on rater performance at different language levels. …”
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Immoral Obscenity: Censorship of Folklore Manuscript Collections in Late Stalinist Estonia by Kaisa Kulasalu

“…The history of folkloristics contains many cases of obscene materials that were excluded from field notes, books and archives. The Estonian Folklore Archives (founded in 1927) did incorporate dirty jokes, riddles and songs in its collection. …”
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Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era by Ave Tupits

“…Nevertheless, by far the biggest collection campaign of Estonian folk medicine took place in 1959. Focused interest of folklorists in this topic grew significantly in the 1970s and 1980s, the last decades of the Soviet era, when official access to folk healers was allowed and New Age phenomena spread. …”
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Digital Cultural Heritage – Challenging Museums, Archives and Users by Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Agnes Aljas

“…In addition that, we analyse interviews conducted with 12 members of different Estonian memory institutions in order to understand their perspective on online cultural heritage. …”
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Practices in Integrating Workplace Learning into Upper Secondary Education by Birgit Peterson, Krista Loogma, Maret Aasa

“…In recent years, Estonian employers, upper secondary schools, and other stakeholders have devised various new collaborative measures to effectively integrate workplace learning (WPL) and school education. …”
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Formation of the Management Information System in the Education Sector and the Development of the Education System of the Republic of Belarus Based on the Experience of Estonia by P. A. Lis, D. A. Kachan, V. I. Slizh, A. B. Belsky

“…The history and specificity of the information system in the Estonian education sector (EHIS) is analyzed in the context of the development of e-government technologies. …”
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Retrospective Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing Expands the Multicountry Outbreak Cluster of Listeria monocytogenes ST1247 by Mihkel Mäesaar, Rafael Mamede, Terje Elias, Mati Roasto

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<i>Armastus, Andestus, Alandlikkus</i>: The Rediscovery of the Orthodox Christianity in Post-Soviet Estonia by Milena Benovska-Sabkova

“…The restoration of the autonomous Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, beginning in the 1990s, is due to the historic presence of Orthodoxy in Estonia, but also has the particularities of a new project that seeks contemporary horizons and copes with specific postsocialist problems. …”
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Upper Secondary School Students’ Learning at Work: The Effect on Agency in School by Maria Erss, Krista Loogma

“…The results indicate that work experience, perseverance, teacher agency support, male gender and Estonian mother tongue are positively related to agency while various skills learned at work had no relationship and student achievement in history was only relevant before work experience was added to the model. …”
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Deceptive Adherence to Anticoagulation in Secondary Stroke Prevention by Riina Vibo, Juhan-Mats Kuningas, Prinno Tsakuhhin, Janika Kõrv

“…Data from patient charts and the Electronic Hospital Information, Estonian Electronic Prescription, and Estonian Electronic Health Record systems were registered. …”
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Mathematics teachers' and student teachers' attitudes towards mathematics teaching in comparison by Virginija Būdienė

“…The objective of the study is to determine the level and differences of basic concep­tions of Lithuanian math teachers and students, and to compare with conceptions of Estonian and Finnish mathematics  teachers. The research is based upon the typology of concepts introduced by J. …”
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Gendered Rural Spaces by Piret Koosa

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INTEGRATION OF THE BALTIC STOCK MARKETS WITH GLOBAL MARKETS DURING THE PREVIOUS DECADE by Anmar Pretorius

“…Financials contribute the most to the Estonian stock exchange, followed by utilities. In Lithuania, utilities dominate, with telecommunications in second place. …”
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Refuge or Resource: Home and Nostalgia in Postsocialist Estonia by Anu Kannike

“…I will suggest that in Estonian everyday life nostalgia is not only a form of escapism into the past from the uncertain present and identity problems, but it also works as a resource to cope with the traumatic past, negotiate and forge new identities.…”
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Destiny, Miracle Healers and Magical Intervention: Vernacular Beliefs on Involuntary Childlessness in Estonia by Reet Hiiemäe

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Latvia and Estonia's View to the Separation of Klaipėda from Lithuania in 1939 by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjärv

“…Estonian leaders also assumed that the most dangerous enemy of Estonia was the USSR, which could also be resisted with the help of Germany. …”
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Which Heritage? Which Landscape? Defining the Authenticity of Cultural Heritage in Karula National Park by Kristel Rattus

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Remarks on the Historic-geographic Method and Structuralism in Folklore Studies: the Puzzle of Chain Letters by Elo-Hanna Seljamaa

“…Anderson published his article on types of Estonian chain letters in 1937, whereas Dundes dealt with chain letters repeatedly in the 1960–70s. …”
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A Woman Voice in an Epic: Tracing Gendered Motifs in Anne Vabarna's Peko by Andreas Kalkun

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