Search results for "tieteellinen ajattelu"

Kriittinen teoria ja Marx

2011

Grounding social criticism : from understanding to suffering and back

2019

This paper critically examines John Dewey’s and Axel Honneth’s critical social philosophies in order to highlight two different normative sources of social struggle: scientific understanding and social suffering. The paper discusses the relations of these sources with each other and aims to show to what extent the normative sources of Dewey’s and Honneth’s critical social theories are compatible. A further aim is to use the comparison between Dewey and Honneth in order to argue for a desiderata for critical social ontology. The argument is that we want to consistently include both elements – suffering and understanding – in critical social theory as only by having both will critical theory …

Teaching master's degree students to read research literature

2017

The skill to read research literature critically belongs in every university graduate’s toolbox. I have attempted to teach this skill in a master’s degree level course in programming languages over 15 years using, at various times, simulated conferences, voluntary reading exercises, evidence-based practice training, and a flipped classroom with mandatory reading assignments. I discuss my experience and analyze preliminary qualitative data on the use of evidence-based practice and a flipped classroom for this purpose. I present no firm conclusions, but expect that future work (by me or others) will be able to use my experience as a baseline for better teaching of research literature reading.…

Teaching historical thinking in practice : a study of US history teachers’ views on using primary sources in AP and IB history lessons

2022

Analysis of primary sources has been recognised to have a significant impact on the development of students’ historical thinking. This study explored US history teachers’ attitudes and practices to using primary sources by interviewing six history teachers and observing 29 history lessons between August and November 2016 in Indiana and California. The main focus of the study was on the views of International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme and Advancement Placement (AP) history teachers. Results indicated that all teachers valued the use of primary sources and most of them used sources frequently. Notable was the deficiency of source evaluation in AP and Regular history lessons in thos…

Mercury beats Minerva? : essays on the accelerating impact of market logic permeating higher education

2015

Applying transdisciplinary sustainability transitions research in international social work doctoral training

2022

In the last 15 years, transdisciplinary research of sustainability transitions has become an increasingly powerful approach. We discuss it as a perspective for social work discipline, and as a theoretical-conceptual frame of a new international doctoral training and research programme in social work taking place in seven European countries. In our qualitative study, we investigate how the participating social work doctoral students reflect upon transdisciplinarity and understand the interconnectivity between environmental, ecological, and social sustainability transitions—which is widely recognised as a highly complex challenge of sustainability. The data used included the students’ learnin…

Finnish Secondary Students’ Mental Models of Magnetism

2020

We examined Finnish lower secondary students’ mental models of magnetism through their drawings, written explanations and interviews. Secondary students in Finland (N=12) engaged in six lessons designed specifically to target three key concepts in understanding magnetism: structure and organization (magnetic domains), magnetic fields and magnetic interactions. We describe how, with a finite number of key concepts introduced, students reflected upon and revised their mental models of magnetism and magnetic interactions towards more sophisticated and normative scientific views. We found two new categories of students’ models: the pole model and pole/field model. The critical moments in evolvi…

Polkuja yhteiskuntatieteisiin

2015

Kirjasta, Toimittajat, 5 Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitoksesta, Toimittajat, 8 OSA I Tiede, Petteri Niemi ja John Pajunen, 19 Erään tutkimuksen tarina, Timo Anttila ja Tomi Oinas 60, Kertomusten rakentuminen haastatteluvuorovaikutuksessa, Elina Virokannas, 82 Kieli ja tulkinta, Pekka Korhonen, Marja Keränen, Kia Lindroos, Marko Nousiainen, Mika Ojakangas ja Jouni Tilli, 97 Osa II Klassikot ja me, Mikko Yrjönsuuri, 127 Sosiologia yhteiskunnan rakenteiden ja toimijoiden tulkkina, Pertti Jokivuori, Petri Ruuskanen, Martti Siisiäinen, Terhi-Anna Wilska, 142 Politiikka ja poliitikko, Eeva Lehtonen, Onni Pekonen ja nimimerkki Palokorhonen, 183 Sukupuolentutkimus yhteiskuntatieteissä, Jo…

"Ei mulla oo kovin tieteellinen toi gradu" : valmistuvan luokanopettajan tieteellis-emansipatorinen ajattelu

2000

Impact of traditional physics lab instruction on students’ critical thinking skills in a Finnish context

2023

Abstract Recent studies have given incentives to physics departments around the world to revise the learning goals of their lab courses to emphasize experimentation skills over reinforcing lecture content. Evaluation instruments have been developed to measure the achievement of learning goals, and one such instrument is the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC). The PLIC measures respondents’ ability to evaluate models, evaluate methods, and to suggest the next steps for an investigation. In the present work, we give consideration to the validity of our Finnish translation of the PLIC and we show results from our baseline study of first-year introductory lab courses with labs mi…