Search results for "Fenomenografia"
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Graduating Physiotherapy Students’ Conceptions of their own Competence
2017
A competence-oriented approach has recently emerged in higher education and thus far, not much attention has been paid to how “competence” itself is understood in education. The purpose of this study was to examine how graduating physiotherapy students perceive their competence at the end of their studies. The data comprised interviews with 33 graduating physiotherapy students. The data were analysed with the phenomenographic approach. The findings indicated that graduating students had different and wide-ranging conceptions of what competence in physiotherapy entails and what their own competence covers. The descriptive categories – mastering core skills, understanding the theoretical basi…
Patients’ conceptions of preoperative physiotherapy education before hip arthroplasty
2015
In Finland, over 7500 hip arthroplasties are performed annually. While the mean age of the patients has increased, the length of hospital stay has decreased, and this presents challenges for patient education. The aim of this study was to explore patients’ conceptions of preoperative physiotherapy education. This qualitative study included 10 hip arthroplasty patients. Data were collected using individual interviews at home before collecting preoperative information, and at the hospital after the operation. The interviews were tape-recorded and analysed using the phenomenographic method. Four hierarchically constructed categories of preoperative physiotherapy education were identified: read…
Physiotherapists’ conceptions of movement awareness– A phenomenographic study
2021
The phenomenon of movement awareness requires more attention to make it explicit in physiotherapy. The aim of this study was to explore the variation in physiotherapists’ conceptions of movement quality, focusing on movement awareness. The informants were 15 physiotherapists from a variety of physiotherapy fields. We collected data through two group interviews and used the phenomenographic method to analyze them. Four themes emerged from the data: 1) Being in contact with one’s own moving body; 2) Increased awareness of movement experiences; 3) Interrelationship between physiotherapist and patient; and 4) Better understanding of movement awareness. These themes varied by four descriptive ca…
University Teachers’ Conceptions of Their Role as Developers of Technology-Rich Learning Environments
2017
This phenomenographic study examines how a diverse group of university teachers conceptualised their role as developers of technology-rich learning environments at one university in Finland. The research findings illustrate a variety of conceptions. Five qualitatively different ways of understanding teachers’ roles regarding the development of technology-rich learning environments were found: 1) innovator, 2) early adopter, 3) adaptive, 4) sceptic and 5) late adopter. In order to connect the whole set of interconnected roles to a theory of change, Everett Rogers’ innovation diffusion theory was exploited in the last phase of analysis. Finally, hierarchically structured categories were creat…
Patient education in physiotherapy in total hip arthroplasty (THA) - The perspective of physiotherapists
2018
Background and Purpose There is limited knowledge about patients’ and physiotherapists’ perceptions of patient education in physiotherapy in hip arthroplasty. The aim of this study was to describe physiotherapists’ conceptions of the patient education in physiotherapy needed by patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. Methods The data for this qualitative study were collected using group and individual semi-structured interviews. Seven physiotherapists were interviewed. The research data were analyzed using a phenomenographic method. Results Three categories of patient education in physiotherapy in hip arthroplasty were produced and the categories formed a hierarchy. The narrowest descri…
Bridging the gap between research and practice : using phenomenographic findings to develop training for career practitioners
2021
AbstractThis study contends that phenomenography offers both a useful research method and practical tools for developing education and training for career practitioners. After introducing the basic principles of phenomenography, the study reviews previous research on its potential in developing pedagogical practices. It explores how the phenomenographic findings were utilized to design an online skills training programme for career practitioners. The study finds that phenomenographic research serves three practical pedagogical purposes: (1) revealing how learners understand certain concepts or phenomena, (2) elucidating how these understandings differ; and (3) identifying critical aspects i…
"Me halutaan ymmärtää" : vanhempien käsityksiä fysioterapeuttisesta ohjauksesta CP-lapsen botuliinihoidon yhteydessä
2014
Kemialliset ja ortopediset hoidot ovat nousseet perinteisen fysioterapian rinnalle spastisuuden hoitokeinona. Siitä huolimatta että kahden viime vuosikymmenen aikana näiden hoitojen suosio on kasvanut, ne eivät korvaa perinteistä fysioterapiaa. Kemiallisena hoitona botuliinitoksiini A -hoidon suosio on perustunut leikkaustarpeen viivyttämiseen, kivun hallintaan sekä spastisuuden helpottumisen kautta toiminnallisuuden lisääntymiseen erityisesti lievästi tai keskivaikeasti CP-vammaisilla lapsilla ja nuorilla. Botuliinihoidon tehokas hyödyntäminen edellyttää sekä fysioterapian että perheen fysioterapeuttisen ohjauksen toteutumista. Lapsen elinympäristö on perhe, ja vanhempien käsityksiä botuli…
A Phenomenographic Research Study of Students’ Conceptions of Mobile Learning: An Example From Higher Education
2019
This article aims to identify different ways of using mobile devices in students’ learning in higher education. This qualitative research presents the findings from a phenomenographic research of students’ conceptions of mobile learning (m-learning) in higher education. A cohort of 16 students from four universities of Bangladesh took part in semi-structured interviews to explore their in-depth understandings and experiences of m-learning. The findings indicate that university students perceived five qualitatively different ways of using mobile devices in their learning: a medium for communication; a medium for management of learning materials; a tool for effective learning; a means for co…
"Et jokainen löytäis parhaan version itsestään, niin siinähän olis jo paljon" : Ohjaamot ponnahduslautana omille unelmille koulutukseen ja työelämään…
2016
Opinnäytetyön tavoitteena oli tarkastella Ohjaamoverkoston käsityksiä siitä, miten vailla toisen asteen tutkintoa olevia nuoria voidaan tukea koulutukseen ja työelämään kiinnittymisessä. Tavoitteena oli ymmärtää niitä hyviä käytänteitä ja toimintamalleja nuorten tukemisessa, joita Ohjaamon toiminnassa käsitetään olevan. Tutkimusongelmaa lähestyttiin laadullisen tutkimuksen menetelmin fenomenografisen tutkimusotteen kautta. Tutkimusmenetelminä käytettiin sekä eläytymismenetelmää (N= 35) että teemahaastatteluita (N= 3). Aineiston analyysi pohjautui aineistolähtöiseen sisällönanalyysiin, teemoitteluun ja tyypittelyyn. Analyysin tuloksena aineistosta saatiin 13 teemaa, joista myöhemmin hahmotel…
Mingling in Paedeia Café : student teachers' experiences of participating in peer-mentoring groups of pre-service and in-service teachers
2015
This study examines the experiences of student participants of Paedeia Café Finland, a part of the European PAEDEIA project. The aim of the project was to build bridges between pre-service and in-service teacher education and to develop practices for supporting new teachers in the induction phase. Five European countries (Denmark, Finland, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey) participated in the project and in Finland, Sweden and Turkey local induction programs called Paedeia Cafés were implemented. In Finland Paedeia Café was organized as peer-group mentoring for mixed group of pre-service and in-service teachers. The aim of this study was to find out how student teachers experienced Paedeia Café …