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Subjective financial situation and financial capability of young adults in Finland
2018
A key developmental task in young adulthood is acquiring financial capability (Serido, Shim, & Tang, 2013), meaning competent financial management skills and the responsibilities that these involve. This study extends previous research on the theoretical model of the development of financial capability, including financial confidence (or financial self-efficacy) and financial behavior as factors contributing to subjective and financial well-being. It is part of the Finnish Educational Transitions Studies (FinEdu) longitudinal research project. Participants were 418 young adults aged 24–25 at Time 1 and 26–27 at Time 2. Path and mediation models and Structural Equation Modeling followin…
A Design-Oriented Analysis of Multimodality in English as a Foreign Language
2018
This empirical article investigates multimodality in English as a foreign language, both as seen in the use of multimodal texts as artefacts and pedagogical texts for learning, and through an analysis of the multimodal learning designs. We present observations from a year 10 classroom in Norway that worked with the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie, 2007). We explore a four-week teaching sequence, asking how different modes were involved when the educator designed literacy events around the novel, and how multimodality is present in the students’ meaning making. Our aim is to make explicit and discuss some of the silent literacy practices in English teaching at l…
Enseñanza de las ciencias : revista de investigación y experiencias didácticas
2021
Nota: resumen tomado de la revista En este trabajo se describe el origen y evolución del significado de los conceptos de cantidad de sustancia y de mol considerando las contribuciones hechas por la Historia de la Química. Por otra parte, se plantea el serio desacuerdo que se presenta entre las ideas actuales de los profesores de Química en esos conceptos y las recomendaciones de la comunidad científica internacional. Se señalan las implicaciones didácticas que estas dificultades epistemológicas pueden tener para la enseñanza de la Química. Cataluña ESP
Pragmatično usmerjeni nauk o pravnem razlaganju
2012
Izhajajoč iz dinamičnega pristopa k razumevanju tvorbe pomena avtor v tej izvirni, za Revus napisani razpravi izgradi pragmatično usmerjeni nauk o pravnem razlaganju. Ta se odmika tako od formalističnih kot protiformalističnih pogledov, saj je v skladu z njim razlaganje hkrati »odkrivanje« nekaterih pomenskih ravni in »ustvarjanje« drugih. Pomen vsakršnih (tudi pravnih) izrazov ali stavkov je torej obravnavan kot nekaj stopnjevitega, oblikovanega na več ravneh. Obenem vključuje znotraj-jezikovno razsežnost (smisel) in razsežnost razmerja »jezik-svet« (nanosnik). Pomen nikoli ni proizveden hipoma in v celoti, ampak je oblikovan postopno, po korakih. Pri tem je za dokončno izoblikovanje pomen…
Some theoretical aspects of processes behind the meanings of proverbs and phrases
2013
This article examines the process that makes proverbial utterances meaning-carrying units. The aim is to show why proverbial utterances are used and understood in everyday speech, focusing particularly on their context-connected aspects. Context is understood as a cultural matter, as a matter of an individual experience, and as offering a frame for interpreting an utterance. The examples of Finnish utterances included are taken from both the past and present. The theoretical background of this study stands on the view that language structures reality. Grice’s cooperative principles, Frege’s deviation of lexical and implicated meaning, and Hintikka’s and Sandu’s manner of understanding possi…
Humans and Their Technologies Play the Infinite Game
2019
Technology is increasingly about intuitive use and automation, as is evident to some degree in all the papers published in this issue. Technological--and one could say, even civilizational--progress is made possible by automating necessary but often tedious and tiresome processes. This then frees people's time and energy for a variety of recreational, inspirational, and/or developmental tasks. However, as the automation of society advances, the meaning of work changes and new existential and ethical questions emerge. nonPeerReviewed
Self in NARS, an AGI System
2018
This article describes and discusses the self-related mechanisms of a general-purpose intelligent system, NARS. This system is designed to be adaptive and to work with insufficient knowledge and resources. The system’s various cognitive functions are uniformly carried out by a central reasoning-learning process following a “non-axiomatic” logic. This logic captures the regularities of human empirical reasoning, where all beliefs are revisable according to evidence, and the meaning of concepts are grounded in the system’s experience. NARS perceives its internal environment basically in the same way as how it perceives its external environment although the sensors involved are completely diff…
¿Cabe hablar de una «generación de la crisis»? Discusión en torno a una noción sobreexplotada
2018
This article states that nowadays there is an overuse (or a misuse) of the «Generation» idea. The discussion among many authors over the «Generation of crisis» concept suggests that it is useful to outline the characteristics of the target of population of the collective of youth who are mainly affected by the economic and social crisis over the past years. Nevertheless, through analyzing the meanings of the «Generation of Crisis» made by Mannheim, Ortega and other classic authors, it is clear that the social class approach together with the generational one are needed to define this concrete concept. The conclusion of the articleis that both approaches are seen as underpinning their utilit…
Global connectedness in higher education : student voices on the value of cross-cultural learning dialogue
2015
The study explores how sense of global connectedness can be enhanced by creating opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue in higher education. Thematic analysis of randomly selected 15 learning journals, students’ reflections on their learning during an international seminar was used to identify students’ significant learning experiences. The results emphasise the added value of diversity (geographical, disciplinary, cultural and social) among students, faculty and invited presenters for creating meaningful learning. Furthermore, they suggest that designing an integrated approach of contents, contexts and activities for critical engagement in global dialogue and knowledge generation in hig…
Designing knowledge construction in pre-service teachers’ collaborative planning talk
2022
In this paper, we report on a qualitative study of student teachers’ collaboration in planning and implementing a course that integrated physics and the Finnish language. Audio-recorded planning sessions and interviews were examined using qualitative content analysis, first, to discover what kind of space for knowledge construction student teachers designed for learners and, second, to identify the characteristics of their collaboration in developing a new cross-disciplinary pedagogical practice. The analysis revealed challenges in integrating meaning-making resources for knowledge construction; especially the role of language remained mostly invisible. This indicates a need to develop teac…