Search results for "Agency"

Agency of rural Nepali women as moderated by community learning centres : a postcolonial feminist perspective

2017

This study includes the voices and experiences of fifteen Nepali women who participated in the activities provided at two Community Leaning Centres (CLCs). CLCs provide various learning activities for the women in rural Nepal, where education opportunities for adult women are extremely lacking. Situated within a postcolonial feminist perspective, this thesis aims to investigate not only the benefits of the CLCs for women per se but the construction of women’s agency through the learning using a combination of semi-structured interviews and a thematic data analysis. This study identifies the perceived benefits of women participants and analyses the processes by which women negotiate social c…

Agency in first-semester university students’ career plans

2014

In this paper I examine expressions of agency in autobiographical narratives by Finnish speaking university students of Swedish. Students who write about themselves, their decisions and their career plans are simultaneously involved in (re)constructing their identities. The narratives often include references to “communities of practice” (Lave & Wenger 1991; Wenger 1998) that the students consider as significant, and whose membership they see as something worth dreaming of. These kinds of first-person stories can be regarded as important as far as identity formation is concerned (Sfard & Prusak 2005). The narratives can help in building a bridge between the narrator’s past, the present and …

Narrative Tensions in Strained Junior Elite Performers’ Experiences of Becoming Elite Performers

2021

Contextualized within narrative theory and the field of talent identification and development systems (TIDS), this interview study examined strained junior elite performers’ experiences of becoming elite performers while participating in prestigious national TIDS. The study explored how junior elite performers perceive and negotiate their personal narratives of becoming within a cultural master narrative of being. The focus is on how the quality of person-environment interaction, characterized by narrative alignment or tensions, relates to perceptions of identity, agency, and physical and mental health. We purposefully recruited eight participants (Mage = 17.31, SD = 0.9) from a previously …

Urheilujohdon eliittiin etenemisen kertomuksia : kasvaen, ajautuen, sattumalta vai pyrkien?

2016

Narratives of agency in job burnout recovery

2015

The present qualitative study investigates the experiences of job burnout recovery and non-recovery concentrating on the role of human agency. This study is additionally interested in workplace change as a component of the recovery process. The four studied individuals had participated and benefited from a rehabilitation that took place two years earlier to conducting the present study, yet their recovery processes after rehabilitation differ greatly from each other. The study utilized a triangulation of analysis methods, using content analysis to recognize the used forms of agency and narrative analysis to examine the individual pathways of recovery or non-recovery. Four narratives were co…

Pelaaja on pelaajalle susi : kriittinen analyysi DayZ:n vallitsevasta pelitavasta

2015

Tässä kriittisessä analyysissä perehdytään selviytymiskauhupeli DayZ:n sosiaalisiin käytäntöihin, jotka suosivat negatiivista vapautta ja luovat odotuksia pelaajien käytöksestä. Näiden käytäntöjen yleinen omaksuminen on tehnyt ennaltaehkäisevästä väkivallasta vallitsevan pelitavan. Artikkeli kartoittaa peliteknisiä, sosiaalisia ja kulttuurisia osatekijöitä, jotka mahdollistavat tämän epäsosiaalisen toimintamallin. Tätä keskustelua peilataan myös pelietiikan teoriaan. peerReviewed

共主体が育まれる学習環境の検討 ～フィンランドにおける対話による示唆～[What is a learning environment that creates co-agency? : Implications from dialogue in Finland]

2020

本研究の目的は，保育の場で，OECD(経済協力開発機構)が示すco-agencyをモデルとした共主体が育 まれる学習環境についての検討を行うことである．そこで，フィンランドの福祉・健康・教育システムを支 えるネウボラとパイヴァコティ（デイケア）で，ネウボラナース（保健師及び助産師），保育者，保護者， 子どもが対話を通して共主体として機能していることを明らかにした．また，モノやコト，人が発信する情 報を人が受け取ることで，そこに価値を見いだして行動することができる場や状況が学習環境として有用で あることが示唆された. nonPeerReviewed

Kuntoutuminen lonkan tekonivelleikkauksesta : kuntoutujien kertomat tarinamallit

2012

TIIVISTELMÄ Kuntoutuminen lonkan tekonivelleikkauksesta – kuntoutujien kertomat tarinamallit Knaapi-Junnila Sari Fysioterapian pro gradu-tutkielma. Jyväskylän yliopisto, liikunta- ja terveystieteiden tiedekunta, terveystieteiden laitos, 2012. 167 sivua, 36 liitesivua. Tämä tutkimus on osa Jyväskylän yliopiston johtamaa Osallistava potilasohjaus fysioterapiassa -tutkimushanketta. Tämän osatutkimuksen tavoitteena on ymmärtää kuntoutumisen merkityksiä lonkan tekonivelleikkauksesta kuntoutuville. Tutkimusaineisto koostuu kymmenen, 63–79-vuotiaan kuntoutujan haastatteluista leikkaukseen valmistautuessa ja siitä kuntoutumisen alkuvaiheessa. Tutkimuksessa selvitetään, minkälaisia tarinoita he kert…

Problem Talk in Management Group Meetings

2019

This naturalistic study focuses on problem talk (PT) in hospital management group meetings. The study aims to understand how PT constitutes the hospital organization through the different uses of PT within the meetings, and, therefore, to understand the organizing role of these meetings. The communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) perspective forms the theoretical background of the research. The results of the qualitative analysis show that PT comprises many intertwined tasks that aim to perform the meetings, enhance problem solving, and maintain the relational level of group life. Thus, PT is much more than merely solving problems. In PT, problems are discussed from the viewpo…

Course Satisfaction in Engineering Education Through the Lens of Student Agency Analytics

2020

This Research Full Paper presents an examination of the relationships between course satisfaction and student agency resources in engineering education. Satisfaction experienced in learning is known to benefit the students in many ways. However, the varying significance of the different factors of course satisfaction is not entirely clear. We used a validated questionnaire instrument, exploratory statistics, and supervised machine learning to examine how the different factors of student agency affect course satisfaction among engineering students (N = 293). Teacher’s support and trust for the teacher were identified as both important and critical factors concerning experienced course satisf…