Search results for "Materiality"
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Sosiomateriaalinen näkökulma vuorovaikutukseen muuttuvissa työtiloissa
2022
Työelämään ja organisaatioihin ovat viime vuosina vaikuttaneet monet eri muutokset. Yksi voimakkaimmista muutoksista koskee sitä, missä töitä tehdään eli työnteon tiloja. Tutkimuksissa on tarkasteltu muun muassa tilojen roolia ihmisten välisen vuorovaikutuksen edistämisessä, työntekijöiden oppimisen tukemisessa sekä inklusiivisuuden ja monimuotoisuuden vahvistamisessa. Viime aikoina huomiota on kiinnitetty erityisesti siihen, miten tilat vaikuttavat ihmisten toimijuuteen eli kykyyn ja mahdollisuuksiin toimia tai vaikuttaa erilaisiin työhön liittyviin tilanteisiin. Tässä puheenvuorossa keskityn siihen, miten tilojen ja ihmistoimijuuden välistä suhdetta voidaan tutkia niin kutsutusta sosiomat…
The Ideal Learner as Envisioned by Can Do Statements and Grammar Revisions: How Textbook Agency Is Constructed
2022
AbstractIn this chapter, we analyse the features of textbooks that enable and facilitate their role as material agents in the classroom. Rather than analyse the ways textbooks are used in interaction with humans, we analyse the elements in the textbook itself that facilitate intra-action and the ensuing material agency. Based on a discursive analysis of self-assessment in one textbook and discussing that construct against the Finnish national core curriculum and previous research, we present an ‘ideal imaginary’ of classroom activities as construed in the textbook. This helps us understand the textbooks in their pedagogical ergonomics; i.e. as socio-material in the classroom. We conclude by…
Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry
2017
Materiality has been heavily emphasized in different sustainability reporting guidelines to increase the quality of the sustainability reports and report issues that are most aligned with the company’s most significant economic, environmental and social issues. In this thesis materiality analysis in sustainability reporting is analyzed. Firstly, in the theoretical part, the concept of sustainability reporting and materiality is explained along with the provision of materiality in different reporting guidelines. In this research section, fifteen different airlines’ sustainability reports are analyzed to find out how the materiality analysis is carried out in the airlines. The study is focuse…
Book Review : Seebach and Willerslev (eds), Mirrors of Passing
2019
Common sense put to work : The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals
2022
This article investigates how Lean model is introduced in a management training course targeted at healthcare professionals in Finland. Lean management originated in the Japanese car industry; since the 1990s it has become a key management doctrine for healthcare reform in Western welfare states. Drawing on ethnographic research on a two-day Lean management training course in 2019, and by applying the analytical lenses of affects and sociomateriality, the article illustrates how Lean is made attractive to healthcare professionals. The article results that Lean training serves as an example of complex mechanism of biocapitalist production in which people’s cognition, feelings, sensitivities …
The Socio-Material Value of Language Choices in Mozambique and Finland
2022
AbstractThis chapter explores parental choice of language programs from a socio-material standpoint. It uses a DeleuzoGuattarian framework of smooth and striated spaces to understand how parents in Mozambique and Finland position themselves when making choices concerning their children’s language education. We analyzed interviews from Finland and focus groups and policy documents from Mozambique to understand the materialities and social discourses that constitute parental choice. We found that in Finland, materiality as a physical space (e.g., school location) factored into caregivers’ decision making when selecting schools for their children. In Mozambique, in turn, materiality as socioec…
Fra behandling til recovery. En review-studie av forskning på dagsentra for mennesker med psykiske lidelser
2017
This study reviews research publications topically related to day centres for people with mental health problems. The purposes are to give a general overview of the evidence-based knowledge in the field, to detect gaps of knowledge, and to throw light on the following research questions: (1) Which ideologies about day centres may be revealed in Scandinavian- and English-speaking research on day centres for people with mental health problems; and (2) What significance do the day centres have for the users?Both questions are answered by examining 34 research publications, printed in either Scandinavian or English languages during the period 1962-2015. An integrative literature review was used…
A Corridor That Moves: Corporeal Encounters with Materiality in a Mental Hospital
2020
Towards Socio-material Research Approaches in Language Education
2022
AbstractThis chapter outlines the socio-material framing of the book that it opens. We situate this volume materially not only in the discipline of applied linguistics and language education, but also in the long tradition of applied language studies at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and the community there. In doing so, the book builds on the authors’ roots in social constructionist thought and explicates why an orientation towards new materialism may be useful for a consideration of equity issues in language education. Socio-materialism fosters a critical, transformative perspective and encourages an ontological ethical grounding of research, thus providing a starting point for re…