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Negotiating parenting practices: the arguments and justifications of Finnish couples
2021
This article explores Finnish different-sex couples’ (n = 12) negotiations on their parental division of labour. Theoretically, the article is based on the literature on gendered parenting practices and relational negotiations. Our discourse analysis reveals how the couples produced ‘togetherness’ and ‘our family’ by representing their care practices as agreements, irrespective of whether the care was described as equally shared or distinctly gendered. Disagreements reflecting more individualistic tones, and mainly resulting from the mothers’ sense of unfairness, were especially foregrounded when the distribution of household duties was discussed. The analysis also revealed how men cited in…
Perhe lapsen kokemana
2003
Part-time teachers’ concepts of assessment, assessment practices and experiences of participation at the open university
2022
La partecipazione digitale per una visione nuova delle città
2017
Le città sono da sempre state luogo di produzione e di relazioni sociali e territoriali. Non si può considerare la città semplicemente come un elemento fisico fine a se stesso. Oggi le città stanno attraversando processi repentini di cambiamento, esse diventano luogo di scambio e di fruizione di dati, creazione di reti tramite l’infrastruttura digitale e le tecnologie open source. I cittadini, per mezzo della digitalizzazione si riappropriano dello spazio urbano cambiando il modo di concepirlo e di viverlo quasi come se fosse un gioco. I processi partecipativi divengono sempre più frequenti, strettamente legati alle pratiche di pianificazione urbanistica e in molti casi devono obbligatoriam…
Is no One Left Behind? Inclusive Citizenship in Practices of Self-help Groups in Rural Tanzania
2023
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are based on the Agenda 2030 according to which ‘no one is left behind’, highlighting the need for inclusive citizenship at all levels. This article examines self-help groups in rural Tanzania as potential arenas for inclusive citizenship, which is defined as bottom-up practices of membership, participation, and livelihood enhancement. However, inclusive citizenship is also characterised by exclusions. Therefore, while acknowledging the important contribution of self-help groups for development, this article scrutinises the question of patterns of exclusion, first, in practices of self-help groups, and second, in the relationships bet…
How educators commit to enhancing children’s participation in early childhood education pedagogical plans
2022
Background: This is a descriptive study of children’s participation plans in early childhood education (ECE) settings in Finland. The study adopted a multidimensional approach to find out how practices of children’s participation were conceived in pedagogical plans made by ECE staff, representing a focus that is rare in the existing body of research. Aim: Aim of the study was to investigate educators’ commitments to enhancing children’s participation in pedagogical practices in their ECE settings. Setting: Ten centre-based plans for children’s participation composed by ECE staff at ECE centres were selected for the document data in this study. Methods: This study employs the categorisation …
INCLUSIVE DECISION MAKING: THE ONLINE COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN AS AN EXAMPLE OF PARTICIPATIVE POLICY
2022
For decades, national states have confronted various challenges to the democratic form of government. In such a highly complex frame, the question is, can public participation to policymaking still be a way to reach a more effective governance? In this chapter, I will attempt to demonstrate how inclusive bottom-up decision-making could improve the results of single projects and of wider European public policies. In the first part, I describe the European frame in which inclusive policymaking was born; then, in the second part, I analyse the Oltre project and its results as an example of participatory practices.
La ricerca pedagogica e la ricostruzione storica delle buone pratiche nel tempo del presentismo. Riflessioni intorno a un paradigma.
2015
Scopo del presente articolo è di fare chiarezza sul ruolo che oggi le indagini storiche intorno alle pratiche educative rivestono all’interno della ricerca pedagogica. Se, fino a pochi anni fa era opportuno parlare di passaggio dalla storia della pedagogia alla storia dell’educazione, a ben vedere, le attuali ricerche storiche sembrano più orientate a ripensare un dialogo costruttivo e reciproco con il sapere pedagogico. Tra la ricerca pedagogica e la ricerca storico-educativa sembra esservi una nuova sinergia: nel tempo del presentismo, in cui tutto sembra consumarsi velocemente, il pedagogista pensa e agisce a partire da una coscienza storica che lo rende più consapevole del proprio tempo…
Institutional and Affective Practices of Domestic Violence Interventions in Social Work: Malignant Positioning of Victims
2020
This chapter investigates the institutional and affective practices of domestic violence (DV) interventions in Finnish social work. It examines the expression of social workers’ emotions related to intervening in DV and how these expressions result in the positioning of clients. Encountering and intervening in DV is often challenging; ideological presumptions, conceptions, gender-neutral discussions and misrecognition of violence affect institutional arrangements and practices, and the ways in which professionals feel about and respond to violence. We utilise positioning theory to analyse social workers’ focus group interview data (n = 20). We consider (1) how emotions expressed by social w…
Best practices for teaching boys
2015
Boys are the ones in trouble, they say. They are trailing girls in reading and writing, are more likely to get in trouble or be labelled as learning disabled, and are less likely to go to college. Educators, citing emerging brain research, say that the two sexes learn differently and that schools are more geared to girls than to their ants-in-the-pants counterparts. But they are adopting strategies to help boys succeed, from playing multiplication baseball to handing out stress balls and setting up boys-only schools. Nowadays, there is an urgent call for a more significant presence of male teachers in primary schools. Here are the results of an extensive research concerning gender differenc…