Search results for "sosiaalinen oikeudenmukaisuus"
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Justice in the Sustainability Curriculum
2021
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition
2021
Just transition is gaining increasing attention. The need to consider social justice in sustainability transitions is finally being acknowledged. Research on this issue has, to date, mainly concentrated on energy systems. In this paper, we examine how the elaboration of dietary transition widens the spectrum of justice questions in sustainability transitions research. We explicate the arising normative questions along the dimensions of distributive, procedural and recognitive justice; widening the considerations further to restorative and cosmopolitan justice. Dietary transition widens the justice considerations to basic needs, food security and nutrition. By doing so, it evokes socio-cultu…
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…
Higher Education and Global Social Injustice
2020
This dissertation, composed of three unique scholarly articles, explores some of the ways in which institutions of higher education facilitate and mitigate social injustice on a global scale. Specifically analyzing the behavior of administrative actors—defined as those that serve in a leadership role outside of the classroom—the purpose of the research was twofold. Firstly, I aimed to identify the mechanisms by which administrative actors at U.S. and Finnish institutions of higher education legitimized and rationalized their involvement in globally unjust educational practices. Secondly, I sought to identify the ways in which administrative actors in these economically privileged countries …
Epätoivon perinteestä onnellisuuden tavoitteluun. Taloudellinen ajattelu, sosiaalinen oikeudenmukaisuus ja elämäntavan muutos J. K. Galbraithin runsa…
2008
Artikkeli analysoi taloustieteilijä J. K Galbraithin The Affluent Society -teoksessa esittelemää runsauden yhteiskuntaa. Runsauden yhteiskunnan idea kumpuaa yhtäältä Galbraithin pyrkimyksistä uudistaa taloustiedettä sekä taloudellista ajattelua. Toisaalta sen lähtökohtana on pragmaattinen ja realistinen analyysi Yhdysvaltojen yhteiskunnallisesta tilanteesta 1900-luvulla. Galbraithin tavoitteena oli irrottaa yhteiskunta niukkuudesta, kiihdyttää taloudellista kasvua sekä muuttaa talouden toimintaperiaatteita inhimillisemmiksi ja sosiaalisesti oikeudenmukaisemmiksi. Kysymys oli laajamittaisesta yhteiskuntapoliittisesta uudistusohjelmasta, joka oli osin rinnakkainen samaan aikaan Euroopassa tap…
Reilu siirtymä, ekologinen solidaarisuus ja kestävyysmurroksen mahdollisuus?
2021
Ekologisen kriisin ratkaisemiseksi tarvittavan kestävyysmurroksen yhteydessä on lisääntyvästi alettu keskustella oikeudenmukaisuudesta tai reiluudesta. Reilu siirtymä tarkoittaa sosiaalisen oikeudenmukaisuuden nostamista keskeiseksi osaksi ympäristökriisin ratkaisua, mikä on tärkeää sekä siirtymän hyväksyttävyyden että toimivan toteutuksen kannalta. Samalla oikeudenmukaisuuden korostaminen pitää kuitenkin sisällään riskin ympäristökriisin ratkaisemisen hidastumisesta. Erityisesti näin voi käydä, mikäli oikeudenmukaisuus kääntyy tarkoittamaan oikeutta kestämättömien elämäntapojen ja yhteiskuntarakenteiden ylläpitämiseen. Tarkastelemme tässä katsauksessa reilua siirtymää kriittisesti ja nosta…