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Developing inclusive education policy and practice in Zanzibar : collaborative action research
2018
This doctoral dissertation, which consists of three interrelated sub-studies and an overarching summary, explores the inclusive education development process in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The purpose of the research is to contribute to the development of inclusive policies and practices in order to increase the presence, participation and achievement of all learners. The overarching research question investigated in this research was as follows: How is inclusive education developed in Zanzibar, and how can it be better integrated into the education system? This question was divided into six sub-questions. Each of the three interrelated sub-studies in this dissertation focused on specific sub-quest…
"You've got the color, but you dont't have the shades" : primary education CLIL teachers' identity negotiation within the Finnish context
2018
This dissertation explores how professional identity is experienced by teachers in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) instruction. In particular, it addresses professional identity in relation to two immediate contexts of teacher activity, i.e. that of the classroom and that of the collegial community. In addition to exploring how these two sides of the professional self give rise to a broader understanding of professional identity, this dissertation also explores aspects of professional agency and the negotiation of emotions in their work. The dissertation is founded on fourteen interviews with Finnish kindergarten and primary education teachers doing CLIL. The data were thema…
Työelämän sukupuolistavat käytännöt sosiaalityössä : diskurssianalyysi Talentia-lehdessä käydystä sosiaalityön ammatillisesta keskustelusta
2010
Tarkastelen Pro-gradu-työssäni suomalaisen sosiaalityön työelämän sukupuolistavia käytäntöjä. Yhdistelen tutkimuksessani työelämän, sosiaalityön ja professioiden tutkimusta sekä naistutkimusta. Sukupuoli on tutkimukseni keskeinen käsite, jonka määrittelen Judith Butleria mukaillen performatiivina, jota tuotetaan arkielämässä jatkuvasti uudestaan. Yhteiskunnan rakenteiden tasolla segregoituminen asettaa naiset ja miehet toimimaan eri aloilla ja tehtävissä. Työelämän sukupuolistavat käytännöt taas toimivat työpaikkojen arkisissa käytännöissä muokaten miehiin ja naisiin kohdistuvia odotuksia, tulkintoja ja yksilöiden käyttäytymistä. Sosiaalityötä lähestyn sekä naisvaltaisten ammattien professi…
Social educators's professional competence formation under supervision
2013
Elektroniskā versija nesatur pielikumus
EFFICACIA DI DISPOSITIVI FORMATIVI ELABORATIVO-RIFLESSIVI IN INTERVENTI ORIENTATI ALLO SVILUPPO DELL’IDENTITÀ PROFESSIONALE IN STUDENTI
2013
Introduzione. All’interno di un progetto relativo alla costruzione di un modello psicosociale della qualità universitaria, il contributo si centra sulla verifica di efficacia di dispositivi formativi riflessivi atti a consentire agli studenti il riconoscimento e lo sviluppo virtuoso dei loro modelli di identità, così da facilitare la costruzione di rappresentazioni di ruolo sulle quali fondare competenze idonee a dialogare con la mutevolezza, ormai strutturale, dei contesti e degli utenti delle professioni di aiuto. Obiettivi e metodi I dispositivi utilizzati, gruppi semi-direttivi di discussione, sono stati finalizzati alla esplorazione e trasformazione in chiave meno idealizzante delle ra…
O zagrożeniu wypaleniem zawodowym nauczycieli wczesnej edukacji
2018
Nauczyciele stanowią jedną z tych grup zawodowych, które poddane są szczególnej kontroli społecznej, co ma związek z charakterem wykonywanej pracy. Odpowiedzialność za kształcenie i wychowanie przyszłych pokoleń, chęć sprostania oczekiwaniom rodziców a także wymaganiom stawianym przez nadzór pedagogiczny stwarza sytuację, w której osoby mniej odporne na stres narażone są ha różne konsekwencje. Od osób wykonujących zawód nauczyciela zawsze wymagano wiele. Poza niezbędnymi kompetencjami merytorycznymi, metodycznymi, psychologicznymi czy społecznymi, oczekiwano mądrości życiowej, odpowiedzialności, autentyczności, zaangażowania, poświęcenia, altruizmu, kreatywności i wielu innych cech sprzyjaj…
Open-ended projects opened up — aspects of openness
2017
Abstract—One of the most important areas of competence for professional engineers is the ability to function well in project work, in particular they need to be able to efficiently solve open-ended problems in different collaborative settings. The development of this ability is however not prominent in engineering education despite numerous authors suggesting openended problems as a pedagogical tool to promote development of collaborative problem solving competence by including elements of group or project work in courses. In our own long experience of using open-ended problems in collaborative student projects, we have identified a lack of systematic progression in learning outcomes and sk…
Elementary Math to Close the Digital Skills Gap
2018
All-encompassing digitalization and the digital skills gap pressure the current school system to change. Accordingly, to ’digi-jump’, the Finnish National Curriculum 2014 (FNC-2014) adds programming to K-12 math. However, we claim that the anticipated addition remains too vague and subtle. Instead, we should take into account education recommendations set by computer science organizations, such as ACM, and define clear learning targets for programming. Correspondingly, the whole math syllabus should be critically viewed in the light of these changes and the feedback collected from SW professionals and educators. These findings reveal an imbalance between supply and demand, i.e., what is ove…
Foreign captains in elite hockey markets: mediatized discourses of professionalization between routes and roots
2018
The commercial internationalization of professional ice hockey is shaped by tensions of (re)routing and (up)rooting since it involves (i) crossing geographic, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries to c...
University Autonomy, Agenda Setting and the Construction of Agency : the case of the European University Association in the European Higher Education…
2014
This article analyses the ways in which a policy actor constructs its agency through the production of knowledge. Taking the example of the concept of ‘autonomy’ as constructed in the discourse of the European University Association (EUA), the article draws on the theory of discursive framing and agenda setting, as well as on Meyer and Jepperson's heuristic of agentic actors, to show how the practice of knowledge production can shape the European higher education policy. The article offers a contribution to the debate aiming to develop a more critical perspective on the development of the European Higher Education Area, which sees the process as constituted through the activities of, and t…