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Academic capitalism challenging democratic governancePsychosocial interpretation of the logics in university work after university reform

2021

Vuonna 2009 uudistetun yliopistolain jälkeen yliopistojen hallintomallit ja työkulttuurit ovat olleet monenlaisten muutosten kohteena. Johtamisjärjestelmien kehittämisen trendinä on ollut ”strategisen johtamisen” ja markkinalogiikan vahvistaminen yliopistodemokratian kustannuksella, toisin sanoen vallan siirtäminen yliopistoyhteisöltä keskusjohdolle ja ulkopuolisille. Työyhteisöihin näillä muutoksilla on tavoiteltu esimerkiksi työn tuottavuuden kasvua, mutta samaan aikaan reformit saavat aikaan odottamattomia seurauksia. Vaikka tietotyön organisointia koskevaa keskustelua on käyty viime vuosina kasvavassa määrin, on etenkin työntekijöiden kokemusten peilaaminen laajempiin organisatorisiin k…

Koulutuksen tasa-arvon muuttuvat merkitykset: Kasvatussosiologian vuosikirja 1

2016

Koulutuskysymysten ymmärtäminen edellyttää yhteiskuntatieteellistä ymmärrystä, kun koulutus kytkeytyy yhä tiiviimmin talouteen, elinkeino- ja työvoimapolitiikkaan sekä väestöjen ja osaamisen hallintaan. Kasvatus- ja koulutussosiologinen tutkimus on Suomessa vahvistunut 1980-luvulta lähtien merkittävästi. Kasvatussosiologiselle ymmärrykselle on tilausta, joskin koulutuspolitiikkaa tehdään paljolti tutkimustuloksista piittaamatta, mikä sekin on sosiologisesti kiinnostava ja yhteiskuntatieteellistä analyysia kaipaava asia! Sosiologisen koulutustutkimuksen vahvistuminen näkyy hyvin kotimaisten tieteellisten konferenssien esitelmätarjonnassa. Suomessa järjestetään vuosittain useita tieteellisiä …

Economic, social and stakeholder-related analysis in sport facility management

2019

The importance of resource management has grown in recent years. Challenged by economic and societal changes, universities must think of new ways to gain requisite resources for research and teaching. The topic of this doctoral thesis belongs mainly to the field of social sciences of sport, as it deals with the importance of resource allocation in sports management at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) in Finland, the University of Umeå (UU) in Sweden, and the German Sport University (GSU) in Cologne. The aim of this project is to ascertain whether these universities are able and willing to market themselves via their sport facilities. In terms of how the means of managing sport facilities c…

Consistent phenological shifts in the making of a biodiversity hotspot: the Cape flora

2011

Abstract Background The best documented survival responses of organisms to past climate change on short (glacial-interglacial) timescales are distributional shifts. Despite ample evidence on such timescales for local adaptations of populations at specific sites, the long-term impacts of such changes on evolutionary significant units in response to past climatic change have been little documented. Here we use phylogenies to reconstruct changes in distribution and flowering ecology of the Cape flora - South Africa's biodiversity hotspot - through a period of past (Neogene and Quaternary) changes in the seasonality of rainfall over a timescale of several million years. Results Forty-three dist…

Rinnakkaistallennuksen edistämisen keinoja yliopistokirjastoissa

2022

Julkaisujen rinnakkaistallennus on yksi tärkeä keino tieteellisen tiedon tuomisessa kaikkien kiinnostuneiden ulottuville. Rinnakkaistallennukseen on Suomessa viime vuosina panostettu yhä enemmän. Tässä artikkelissa kuvataan erilaisia keinoja, joilla rinnakkaistallenteiden määrää on lisätty kirjoittajien edustamissa yliopistokirjastoissa. nonPeerReviewed

Teachers' attitudes, competencies, and readiness to adopt mobile learning approaches

2014

This study explores how teachers' attitudes and competencies influence their willingness to adopt mobile learning approaches. By mobile learning we mean teaching approaches that use mobile devices to enliven and extend traditional teaching. Of particular interest is exploring how first-order (e.g. lack of adequate access, time, training and support) and secondorder (e.g. teacher's pedagogical and technological beliefs and willingness to change) barriers affect teachers' beliefs and attitudes. In the autumn of 2012, we conducted three mobile learning case studies in Central Finland. We used semistructured interviews to collect data. The study indicated that positive experiences raised teache…

Designing a mobile learning framework for a formal educational context

2015

Adult Students in the Open University : Systematic Feedback and Continuous Development

2015

The Open University is internationally significant adult educator. Open Universities have an important role as an enabler for continuous self-development for individual adult students. Also the Open University students' feedback is an important factor in continuous and systematic development. The Open University collects annually systematic feedback and reflections from academic adult students. The results of questionnaires are exploited in the continuous development and as part of the Open University Quality System. nonPeerReviewed

The Nigerian Education and the Opportunities ahead for Mobile Learning

2018

: Information technology is providing opportunities to improve education and therefore, research is needed to identify what gaps exist and how these gaps can become opportunities for technology integration such as mobile learning. This paper suggests that successful integration of technology towards improving quality education should be driven by the existing challenges which are contextually peculiar for every country. The case of the Nigerian education was examined alongside practices and policies. The study used secondary data from Nigeria Education Data Survey (NEDS). This paper highlights three major problems that Nigeria faces in basic education, namely: large number of out of school …

‘It's Not Like Everything Changes Just With a Click on New Year's Eve’ : Perceptions on Educational Issues of University Mergers in Finland

2021

The study explored educational perceptions concerning Finnish university mergers. The data were collected by interviewing academics and students (n = 30) in four merger projects. Qualitative content analysis was applied to the data. According to the findings, (i) the implications of the merger with regard to educational activities were primarily connected to the institutions’ own culture and history; (ii) new openings in education, teaching, and learning were only moderate in scope at the time of the interviews; (iii) there is strong potential for the enhancement of teachers’ pedagogical competence; (iv) creating a joint organisational and educational culture is a challenging and time-consu…