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Liberal Governmentality and Urban Culture: Governing Differences and Diversity in the Policies of Helsinki and Sydney

2023

This article uses Michel Foucault’s understanding of police and liberalism to discuss the governance of diversity and differences, and how they appear as a regulatory form of power in urban cultural policy. The data consists of interviews conducted with policymakers in Helsinki and Sydney. The article asserts that the policing of cultural spaces of encounter at the city level is not limited to the regulatory practices and controls that produce a sense of safety and order for citizens in the city. This governance has great significance for representing excluded people and the socioeconomic identity of their neighborhoods. Finally, the use of language as a means of communication in cultural p…

Tehtaan varjosta uusiokäytön valoon : Mikkelin Graani - entisestä teollisuusalueesta palveluiden ja asumisen kaupunkiympäristöksi

2017

Tässä tutkielmassa tarkastellaan Mikkelin Tuppuralan kaupunginosan Graanin alueen muutosta entisestä teollisuusalueesta asumisen ja palveluiden kaupunkiympäristöksi. Tutkielman aikajänne alkaa vuodesta 1986, jolloin alueella toiminut mekaanisen metsäteollisuuden yritys, Oy Grahn Ltd, ajautui konkurssiin ja alue vapautui uusiokäytölle. Käsittelyssä huomioidaan deindustrialisaation ja jälkiteollisen yhteiskunnan aiheuttamat monisäikeiset vaikutukset sekä viime vuosikymmenten lähihistoriallisia tapahtumia, jotka ovat vaikuttaneet ratkaisevasti alueen kehitykseen. Tutkimuksen analyysi perustuu tutkimuskirjallisuuden kautta luotuun katsaukseen teollisuusalueiden uusiokäyttömuodoista, sekä entist…

Aperitiffin perintö : esimerkkinä Jaakko Yli-Juonikkaan Neuromaani

2018

In Defense of Cities : On Negative Presentation of Urban Areas in Environmental Preference Studies

2019

This paper critiques a common research method, image-based studies, in assessing environmental preferences. The method is used, in particular, in the fields of environmental psychology, landscape studies, and health studies, here called empirical environmental preference studies or EEP studies. I argue that the established view in the EEP field that nature is inherently experienced as more aesthetically appealing and restorative than urban environments may be biased because of the image-based method. This paper presents a literature review of EEP studies, discussing them in a framework of environmental and everyday aesthetics. The conclusion is that EEP studies may strip cities of their phy…

Oikeus kaupunkiin

2018

Finnish Quality Evaluation Discourse : Swimming Against the Global Tide?

2023

AbstractThis chapter discusses Finnish quality evaluation in comprehensive education, recognising that it frequently differs from that used by the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) in most countries. Instead of high-stakes testing of pupil achievement, monitoring or school inspection, Finnish quality evaluation (QE) rests mainly on sample-based national testing and self-evaluations conducted in schools and municipalities. The argument presented here is that, although reform of the Finnish education system has often taken a different path from other countries, at the level of discourse, the Finnish system is increasingly caught between the more usual approach to QE and the Finnish vari…

Language Education for Everyone? Busting Access Myths

2023

AbstractFinland has, rather successfully, promoted an image of itself as a model of educational excellence and linguistic equity. This chapter problematises this image by analysing Finnish language education policies at the comprehensive school level. For our analysis we use a three-fold understanding of access as; (a) having the opportunity to participate in language education (getting in); (b) participating in education that is meaningful and effective for the pupil (getting it); and (c) receiving credentials that are societally legitimate and valuable assets (getting out). We elaborate on each aspect of access by debunking three myths for the Finnish context that: (a) Multilingualism is …

Ecological Sustainability and Steering of Finnish Comprehensive Schools

2023

AbstractWith the climate catastrophe and biodiversity loss, our globe is facing enormous challenges: the basis of life on Earth is in danger. Eco-anxiety and global eco-social crises are also driving education to search for solutions to build a sustainable future, for instance the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development views education as a key instrument for change. One of the key promises of the Finnish Ministry of Education is to commit to sustainable development, and the Finnish National Forum for Skills Anticipation states that important future skills should include knowledge of sustainable development. In national reports on how to carry out Agenda 2030, Finland has hig…

Negotiated, Given and Self-Made Paths : Immigrant Origin Girls and Post-compulsory Educational Transition in Finland

2023

AbstractAlthough Finland still has a relatively low proportion of students with a migrant background, it has not been able to ensure that immigrants and their descendants have equal educational opportunities. Education could enhance integration but migrant backgrounds have a persistent impact. In this chapter, our focus is on post-comprehensive educational decision-making processes of immigrant origin adolescent girls, with the viewpoint of the multifaceted intertwinement of gender and ethnicity. We conceptualise the educational decisions as negotiations that adolescents have to have with their families, teachers, counsellors and peers. Within these negotiations, the negotiating parties try…

Municipal Governance of Comprehensive Education : The emergence of local universalisms

2023

The governance of Finland’s comprehensive school system has histori- cally evolved from centralised governance into a blend of national and local (munic- ipal) decision-making authority. The two-fold model of governance was launched in the 1970s according to the planning economy logic, where the national educa- tion policies were enacted and regulated through strict and detailed legislation, a redistributive and ‘earmarked’ state subsidy system and a uniform national core curriculum. At an ideological level, comprehensive reform was tied firmly to the principle of equal opportunities. However, changes in administrative thinking since the 1990s have created a new balance between governmental…