Search results for "kansalaisuus"

Tavoitteena aito osallisuus : Tarkastelussa Suomen ensimmäinen deliberatiivinen nuorisoraati

2010

Vaasassa toteutetaan marraskuussa 2010 Suomen ensimmäinen deliberatiivinen nuorisoraati ("youth Jury"). Nuorisoraatikokeilulla on kolmenlaiset tavoitteet. Ensinnäkin tutkimuksellisena tavoitteena on analysoida deliberatiivisen hallinnan ("deliberative governance") mahdollisuuksia suomalaisen koulukentän ja erityisesti nuorten osallisuuden kontekstissa. Toiseksi nuorisoraatikokeilu toteuttaa pedagogista tehtävää. "Kehittämistyö- ja projektienhallinta" -opintojaksolle osallistuvat sosiaali- ja terveyshallintotieteen maisteriopiskelijat toimivat kokeilun vetäjien kanssa aitona tutkimusryhmänä. Tavoitteena on tutustuttaa opiskelijat projektityöhön antamalla heille mahdollisuus osallistua kokeil…

Exploring Obutyamye as Material Citizenship in Busoga Subregion, Uganda

2022

This article explores how being a citizen is inexorably bound up with the resources individuals own and deploy to support livelihoods in the rural locations of postcolonial states. Drawing on the works of Kabeer (2006) and Baglioni (2016), the article zooms in on how citizenship is manifestly and inescapably material in the Busoga subregion of eastern Uganda. Data for the article were collected using qualitative methods among beneficiaries of antipoverty programmes implemented by Action for Development (ACFODE), a national non-governmental organization (NGO). Findings show that, locally, citizenship is understood as obutyamye, connoting an (un)equal experience of being in, for and with the …

Habits of contributing citizenship : Self-help groups in rural Tanzania

2020

The chapter examines self-help groups in rural Tanzania as practices in which citizenship habits are formed. Self-help groups are referred as locally organized groups established to address the needs and challenges of the members. From the point of view of pragmatism, self-help groups provide concrete examples of a specific form of associated life and of a general human activeness in addressing shared problems. Based on interviews and focus-group discussions conducted in Kondoa district with local self-help groups, the characteristics of these practices are analyzed through three themes: the kinds of shared problems the groups address, the governance of internal interaction of the groups, a…

Climbing the Ladder? Community Perspectives on Learning to Be a Good Citizen in Uganda

2022

AbstractThis chapter examines the ways in which members of a rural community in Western Uganda perceive and conceptualize diverse ways of learning to be a good citizen. It analyzes data generated by means of a tool called the ‘ladder of citizenship’, which facilitated explication of local ideas concerning good citizenship, and reflections on how one can ‘climb the ladder’, thus learning to be a better citizen. The chapter draws on, first, the concept of cultural citizenship, which understands citizenship as a continuous learning process that takes place through interaction in informal settings, and second, the notion of folk pedagogies that refers to people’s own conceptualizations of learn…

Yrittäjyyskasvatus : kansalaisen taloudellista autonomiaa etsimässä

2006

Citizenship Learning: Contextual, Material and Political

2022

AbstractThis chapter focuses on three intertwined dimensions central to contemporary studies of citizenship: the material, the cultural and the political. Based on these, it develops an account of citizenship learning that draws on socio-cultural and socio-material theories of learning and emphasizes everyday encounters and practices as spaces central to learning citizenship. It illustrates with examples from African contexts how contextual, material and political dimensions of citizenship manifest themselves in practices wherein citizenship is performed and learned. In conclusion, it suggests an account of citizenship learning which locates learning in the dynamic interaction between indiv…

Managing Mental Standards with Corporate Citizenship Profiles

2011

Stakeholder expectations of corporate responsibility are growing and thus understanding the dynamics of expectations is becoming important for companies. Stakeholder expectations that are met open doors for stakeholder favor, whereas unmet expectations may hinder or even prevent collaboration. While all companies are expected to be responsible enough to keep away from causing harm to others, a competitive edge can only be achieved if the minimum expectations are exceeded. The paper suggests that companies can both exceed and manage stakeholder expectations in practice by building up a corporate citizenship profile that gives direction to their specialization in responsibility. This niche ca…

Participatory methodology in exploring citizenship : A critical learning process

2020

In this chapter, we shift the focus from analysing citizenship practices to reflecting on learning within the research process of exploring everyday citizenship. To this end, we provide a narrative of our experimentation with participatory research methodology when investigating the daily practices and participation patterns of citizens in two districts in rural Uganda. “Experimentation”, in this context, refers to an endeavour in which we reflectively tested actualizing the participatory methodology that we considered the most appropriate for this research. peerReviewed

Kansalaisten osallisuus

2012

Citizenship, populism and social work in the Finnish welfare state

2020

This chapter ties together discussions of citizenship and social work practice in the context of growing populist and neoliberal political trends in Finland. These political trends are manifested in populist right-wing nationalist movements on the one hand, and in the neoliberal dismantling of the welfare state on the other. Both political trends – right-wing nationalist populism and neoliberalism – tend to separate people into two groups: those who are ‘deserving’ and those who are ‘undeserving’. Simultaneously, the dynamics of globalisation have radically changed nation states and their traditional concepts of citizenship and related social rights. There is thus a need to redefine the und…