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Discussions of Fatherhood in Male Batterer Treatment Group
2013
The aim of this study was to examine how men who have perpetrated violence toward their partners and participated in batterer group talked about being a father and how they perceived their own fatherhood. The discussion in the group was analyzed qualitatively by using the methods of content analysis. In traditional fatherhood, they talked about avoidant, passiveness, distant, indifference, and authoritative controlling ways of acting. These men also created an image of themselves as active and caring fathers, thus including empathy and nurture in the concept of fatherhood. This new fatherhood was considered an achieved goal and an objective for the men as being a father. Talking about fath…
Children’s strategic participation in a bilingual Early Childhood Education and Care Centre
2020
This article considers children’s language learning experiences at an early childhood education and care centre (ECEC) in Central Finland. The article draws on data gathered as part of a Master’s thesis study (Holmila, 2019) which looked at the perspectives of staff, parents and children regarding the use of English as part of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology at the ECEC, with a view to future developments of CLIL provision. This article considers what can be learned from the children’s perspectives. Following a brief overview of the advantages of bilingual educational programmes and the educational context for this study, the main section of this article focu…
Gestural expressions in use for unveiling dynamic experience attributed to verbs
2013
The focus of this paper is on justifying the presented experimental design that aims at examining the enactive linkages between a verb’s content and a sensorimotor experience of movement. The experiment utilised spontaneous production of hand and vocal gestures for expressing the energetic feel attributed to a word. Preliminary qualitative analysis of the expressions shows degrees of similarity in terms of experiential movement qualities. These results imply that conceiving a verb’s meaning is not necessarily far removed from bodily action. peerReviewed
Face and Content Validity of the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Water Competence in Young Children
2022
An international group of experts have developed a pictorial tool to measure perceived water competence for children aged from 5 to 8 years old: the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Water Competence (PSPWC). The aim of the present study was to verify the validity of this tool. In the first part of the study, 120 children were interviewed to investigate face validity of the PSPWC to ensure that all pictorial items were understandable. In the second part of the study, 13 scientific and/or pedagogical international experts were invited to assess the tool’s content validity via an online survey. Face validity results revealed that children were able to understand and sequence correctly the aq…
Generating TV summaries for CE-devices
2002
Automatically generated summaries of TV content are indispensable for content selection and navigation in CE-devices. We show two different types of summaries: Short video trailers and visual overviews consisting of representative frames. The demo does not only show the feasibility of the proposed algorithms, but also shows how different types of generated summaries can be used in future CE-devices.
Vieraskielisen opetuksen monet tahot ja toimijat
2011
"Yesterday I met the biggest ice cream and drinked the biggest coke of my life" : are there differences in the competence of English grammar between …
2010
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) opetusmenetelmässä oppilaiden vieraan kielen kehityksen on huomattu olevan nopeampaa kuin ei-CLIL oppilaiden. Vieraan kielen käyttö opetuksessa tarkoittaa, että vieras kieli ei ole oppimisen kohde vaan oppimisen väline. Oppilaat oppivat kieltä käyttämällä tätä kouluaineen opiskelussa. CLIL menetelmän positiivisia puolia ovat, että oppilaan vieraan kielen kommunikatiiviset taidot kehittyvät ja sanavarasto kasvaa. Kieliopin kehityksestä CLIL opetuksessa ei ole vielä laajoja tutkimuksia. Kieliopin kehittymistä CLIL opetuksessa on kritisoitu, koska opetuksen pääpaino ei ole kielen oppimisessa. Tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää eroavatko kuudes…
The intriguing human being : a cooperative CLIL material package for teaching human anatomy and senses through English in elementary school
2013
Koulutusjärjestelmät ovat kautta aikojen pyrkineet vastaamaan tarpeisiin, joita sen hetkinen maailma on sille luonut. Nykyaikana globalisaatio ja kansainvälistyminen ovat tuoneet omat haasteensa koulutusjärjestelmille. Vastineeksi näihin tarpeisiin on muodostunut erilaisia opetusmenetelmiä, joista yhtenä Suomeenkin levinnyt CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). CLIL on nimeke opetukselle, joka tapahtuu oppijalle vieraalla kielellä. CLIL:iä ei kuitenkaan tule sekoittaa perinteisiin kielikylpymenetelmiin tai kaksikieliseen opetukseen vaan sillä on omat erityispiirteensä. CLIL opetuksella on kaksoisfokus kieleen ja sisältöön. Samanaikaisesti pyritään siis opettamaan niin kielellisiä…
Helppoa vai vaikeaa arvioida? : Yleisten kielitutkintojen suomen kielen arvioijien käsityksiä vironkielisten arvioinnista
2016
Finnish raters’ beliefs about assessing Estonian speakers in a Finnish language test: easy or difficult? This paper aims to contribute to our understanding on rater beliefs and views and to promote transparency in rater’s work in the form of reflection. The paper focuses on professional Finnish raters’ beliefs and views of assessing L1 Estonian speakers in the criteria-referenced Finnish language test of the National Certifi- cates of Language Proficiency test system. Finnish raters (N = 27) were asked via email to shortly reflect on what they find easy and what difficult in rating Estonian speakers’ writing and speaking skills in the Finnish language test. The raters reflected on many issu…
Toimijuus korkeakoulutettujen suomen oppijoiden visuaalisissa narratiiveissa
2018
This socioculturally informed study explores how highly educated Finnish language learners represent their agency in visual narratives. Learners (n=59) were asked to draw two pictures of themselves as Finnish language users and provide verbal interpretations of the drawings. The aim of using visual narratives is to reach aspects such as feelings and beliefs which might be difficult to express verbally. The data were analyzed first by using visual grammar set out by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) and secondly by content analysis. The findings suggest that learners saw Finnish language as a tool for oral communication. However, difficulties with speaking and listening appeared to restrict learn…