Search results for "identity"

Differences in consumer perspectives how sustainable food consumption is perceived and signalled in the prevailing consumer culture : among Generatio…

2016

This thesis investigates Generation Y sustainable food consumers in the prevailing consumer culture and their differences in signalling and perceiving sustainability. The reasons why they engaged to a sustainable diet and the possible conflicts around it were also studied. Relevant contexts around consumer culture, possessions, identities and Generation Y regarding sustainable food consumption were presented as the theoretical framework. The focus was on Generation Y consumers in order to recognize relevant the contexts that influence their behaviour in the marketplace. Qualitative research methods were utilized as the data was gathered through nine in-depth interviews furthermore applied t…

Identity and Agency Development in a CLIL-based Teacher Education Program

2020

A consensus exists in applied linguistics that agency and identity are key concepts in understanding teacher development. Although a large body of research has focused on studying language teacher and learner identity and agency separately, less attention has been paid to the relationship of these concepts in individual development. In this contribution, we use an ecological perspective to explore and illustrate the interplay between and development of agency and identity. The participants in the study were primary school teacher students specializing in foreign language pedagogy for younger learners and studying in a CLIL-based teacher education program. The qualitative data were collected…

"English is a way of travelling, Finnish the station from which you set out" : Reflections on the identities of L2 teachers in the context of Finland

2017

The professional identity of teachers of English

2011

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli selvittää englannin kielen opettajien identiteettiä erilaisten roolien valossa. Koska kielenopettajien identiteettiä on tutkittu hyvin vähän, tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli määritellä kielenopettajuuteen kuuluvia rooleja tarkemmin ja lisäksi tukea aikaisempia tuloksia aiheesta. Tutkimuksessa tutkittiin kielenopettajuutta opettajien näkökulmasta sekä sitä, miten työvuodet vaikuttivat opettajuuden muuttumiseen. Tutkimuksen viitekehyksenä käytettiin teorioita identiteetistä, rooleista ja ammattiidentiteetistä sekä aikaisempien tutkimuksien tuloksia aiheesta. Aikaisempiin tutkimustuloksiin perustuen voitiin keskittyä kolmen roolin, kasvattajan, kielenopettajan sekä ku…

Book review: Kalaja, P., F. Barcelos, A. M., Aro, M., & Ruohotie-Lyhty, M. (2016). Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teac…

2016

This publication is comprised of seven empirical studies on beliefs, agency and identity as a response to the need for contextual, longitudinal and interconnected studies in foreign language learning and teaching. The underpinning argument of the book is that our beliefs about foreign language learning inform our actions, while both beliefs and actions affect our sense of self, our identity. This holds true for students and their learning as much as for teachers and their teaching. Building on former studies within contextual approaches, beliefs, agency and identity are presented as interconnected phenomena. As such, they are addressed by various theoretical starting points and data of long…

Becoming Mediterranean : The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Klapa Singing in Identity-Building and Nation-Branding

2019

Tożsamość i nastawienie do życia młodzieży akademickiej w dobie popkultury

2017

Warunki, w których żyje współczesny człowiek, mają niewątpliwie istotny na niego wpływ. Kultura popularna obecna dzisiaj prawie we wszystkich dziedzinach życia, oddziałując na ludzi, ukształtowała w nich wiele różnych sposobów myślenia o sobie, przeżywania siebie, stylów życia. Krótko mówiąc, stworzyła wiele rodzajów tożsamości. Naukowcy zwracają również uwagę na to, że obecnie żyjący ludzie bardzo często zmieniają swoją tożsamość, dostosowując ją do aktualnej sytuacji życiowej. Wskazują także na powstanie nowej klasy - tak zwanej klasy kreatywnej, czyli ludzi, którzy całkowicie zmienili swoje podejście do życia, traktowania wielu spraw. Rozdział przedstawia ponadto wartości i sposób trakto…

Kohti sensitiivistä musiikin opettamista : ammattitaidon ja opettajuuden rakentumisen polkuja

2012

Promoting Technological Thinking: The Objective and the Means

2021

Technological thinking is not a discrete form of thinking. Whether we talk about the use or the development of technology, technological thinking intersects with logic, creativity and many other human qualities. The bare definition of technological thinking is an ambiguous task, not to speak of the wide variety of attempts to promote it in education. In this paper, we do not aim at saying the final word about the appropriate means of promoting technological thinking. In the contrary, our aim is to analyse some ideas which are commonly proposed as such means but which can be argued to conflict with contemporary understanding of human thought. Our approach draws on the phenomenology of the bo…

Imperialists without an empire? : Finnish Settlers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Rhodesia

2015

This article discusses settler identity formation, in the colonial polity known as Rhodesia, using Finnish nationals as a case study. It studies the involvement of Finns in natural resource extraction in Rhodesia at a time when the colonial economy and settler domination were still in their infancy, and examines both Finnish participation in colonial practices and the limitations of Finns as colonialists. White settlers in Rhodesia have typically been categorised as ‘Europeans’ partly because of their sense of representing a generalised idea of Western civilisation and partly in order to underline contrasts between black and white experiences in the history of colonialism. By focusing on th…