Search results for "ADU"

The relationship between context, structure, and processes with outcomes of 6 regional diabetes networks in Europe

2018

BackgroundWhile health service provisioning for the chronic condition Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) often involves a network of organisations and professionals, most evidence on the relationships between the structures and processes of service provisioning and the outcomes considers single organisations or solo practitioners. Extending Donabedian's Structure-Process-Outcome (SPO) model, we investigate how differences in quality of life, effective coverage of diabetes, and service satisfaction are associated with differences in the structures, processes, and context of T2D services in six regions in Finland, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, and UK.MethodsData collection consisted of: a) systemat…

Growth Into Citizenship: Framework for Conceptualizing Learning in NGO Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

2018

This article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing adult learning in projects aiming to strengthen citizenship implemented by nongovernmental organizations, especially in the contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. On the basis of a review of international development research, we suggest that a new framework should address the need for a conceptualization of learning as a gradual process and for capturing the gap between ideal models and everyday experiences of citizenship. We argue, building on John Dewey’s philosophy, for a framework of growth into citizenship, and introduce the notions of learning as reorganization of habits and the method of democracy as an avenue for learning as nove…

Gender segregation in the employment of higher education graduates

2014

This article examines the employment and placement in the working life of Finnish higher education graduates (i.e. graduates from universities and polytechnics), focusing on gender equality. It reports a study on gender segregation in higher education and working life, considered in relation to Nordic gender equality policies. The data were gathered via a questionnaire administered to graduates in business and administration (n = 1067) and in technology (n = 1087), three years after their graduation. The results showed that men were able to secure permanent and full-time employment more often than women, and men achieved better correspondence between their degree and their employment. Howev…

The Rocky Road of Growing into Contemporary Citizenship: Dewey, Gramsci, and the Method of Democracy

2015

Characterized by globalization, increasing pluralism, and new complexities of citizenship, the contemporary world poses challenges to the ways in which we conceptualize of the processes of searching for shared solutions to ever-complicated social problems. While the political rhetoric emphasizes the value of citizens’ participation, engagement, and “voices,” there are increasing feelings of frustration, incapacity, and disinterest on behalf of the citizens regarding the supposed eff ects of their political engagement. In order to conceptually grasp the problem of searching for shared solutions and the related challenges to education, we draw on John Dewey’s idea of the method of democracy a…

Digital generations, but not as we know them

2019

The aim of this article is to see whether or not adolescents were the real leaders of the digital ‘revolution’ in the 1990s and whether they have sustained or even improved their position in the 2000s. The analysis is based on two surveys carried out in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain in 1996 ( N = 6609) and in 2009 ( N = 7255). The results show that the adolescents belonging to the first digital generation in 1996 were the most equipped with new technologies, although not the most intensive users. In 2009, the adolescents lost their position as the leading adopters and lagged behind youth and young adults regarding the use of new technologies and computer skills.

Unitarinat : lasten unien jakamisen ja kertomisen muodot

2016

Tämä pro gradu –tutkielma käsittelee esiopetusikäisten lasten ryhmässä toteutetun taideprojektin aikana esiin nousseita tarinoita unista. Työ pyrkii löytämään vastauksia lasten kerronnan tapoihin ja muotoihin. Työssä keskeiseksi nousee tutkimusta varten kehitetty käsite unitarina. Unitarina on luova- ja kollektiivi-nen prosessi, jonka kautta lapset kertovat tarinoita näkemistään unista monin eri menetelmin. Tutkimus lähestyy kysymyksiä unitarinan synnystä, sen olemuksesta ja tavoista joilla unet tarinallistuvat ja sanallis-tuvat lasten puheessa ja piirustuksissa. Tutkimus on luonteeltaan laadullinen tutkimus. Siihen osallistui yhteensä 14 lasta. Aineiston keruu to-teutettiin eräässä kaksiki…

Kulttuurisia tapoja tulkita syömishäiriöitä, syömistä ja syömättömyyttä

2012

This Pro-gradu thesis is a research about eating disorders and more widely about binging and dieting in our current Western culture. Eating disorders and the problematic relationship between women and food has become more common in our culture. Nowadays media is filled with food programs and commercials where women are shown to have certain obsessive relation with food. The base of this study is in cultural sciences but the discovery of the subject itself is multidisciplinary. Culture itself is viewed as something which defines, re-defines and shapes our understanding about food, accepted and idealized representations of female body and healthy ways of living. The meanings of wanted or non-…

"Mulla on tämmönen - ei oikein osaa näitä asioita" : tapaustutkimus lukivaikeuksisen aikuisen opettamisesta

1997

Design of mobile phones for older adults : An empirical analysis of design guidelines and checklists for feature phones and smartphones

2017

Design guidelines and checklists are suggested as a useful tool in the development and evaluation of interface design of mobile phones for older adults. Given the intense evolution of mobile phone design, understanding how the design guidelines and checklists have taken into account the advances in mobile phone usability for older adults is important for their correct application and future development. Thus, this study explores the usability dimensions of mobile phone design for older adults and the related changes in terms of time and the type of device (feature phones vs. smartphones) based on an expert coding of the eight mobile phone design guidelines and checklists for older adults pu…

Sensory changes with age and impact on appetite and food intake

2017

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