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2. Finnish University Students Constructing Their Ideal Employable Identities: A Case Study of Top Performing Experts
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Hirvonen, Inka, Siivonen, Päivi, Komulainen, Katri, Siivonen, Päivi, editor, Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka, editor, Tomlinson, Michael, editor, Korhonen, Maija, editor, and Haltia, Nina, editor
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- 2023
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3. Health as Employability Potential in Business Graduates’ Career Imagination
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Komulainen, Katri, Korhonen, Maija, Siivonen, Päivi, editor, Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka, editor, Tomlinson, Michael, editor, Korhonen, Maija, editor, and Haltia, Nina, editor
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- 2023
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4. Aged and gendered master narratives on entrepreneurship in Finnish higher education
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Siivonen, Päivi Tuulikki, Komulainen, Katri, Kasanen, Kati, and Kupiainen, Paula
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- 2022
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5. Perceived Employability and Ability Self among Finnish University Students
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Räty, Hannu, Hytti, Ulla, Kasanen, Kati, Komulainen, Katri, Siivonen, Päivi, and Kozlinska, Inna
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Employability is an increasing concern for university students. Our survey set out to examine university students' perceptions of their employability and the ways in which these perceptions relate to positions that subsequently connect students to working life: students' self-representational position or "ability self", and students' life-historical positions such as chosen field of study, phase of degree and working life experience. The participants comprised a sample of students (N = 1819) from two Finnish universities, representing diverse fields of study. It was found that apart from the field of study, the perceived proximity to graduation and working life was associated with the perception of employability. Furthermore, a set of self-attributed capabilities was associated with students' perceptions of employability, particularly extroversion, ambitious competitiveness, mental strength and the desired characteristics of a good employee; however, the attribution of academic skills showed opposing effects. It was concluded that both self-representational and live-historical positions are part of the construction of students' optimism regarding their employability.
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- 2020
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6. Being Stable and Getting along with Others: Perceived Ability Expectations and Employability among Finnish University Students
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Räty, Hannu, Kozlinska, Inna, Kasanen, Kati, Siivonen, Päivi, Komulainen, Katri, and Hytti, Ulla
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The aim of this study was to examine what sort of ability expectations university students have about the requirements of working life, and how the perception of these expectations relate to students' perceptions of their own employability. The participants comprised a sample of students (N = 1819) from two Finnish universities, representing diverse fields of study. They were asked to describe themselves according to a set of abilities and to then indicate those abilities that would be particularly important for them in the labour market. It was found that being stable and getting along with others were the most commonly considered generic capabilities for coping in working life. Furthermore, those university students who identified entrepreneurial skills and extroversion as predominant ability requirements were prone to have relatively pessimistic perceptions of their employability possibilities. Accordingly, the results of the study suggest that students' views of their expected abilities tend to shape their perceptions of their employment prospects, particularly with regard to entrepreneurial skills.
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- 2019
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7. The construction and regulation of collective entrepreneurial identity in student entrepreneurship societies
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Siivonen, Päivi Tuulikki, Peura, Kirsi, Hytti, Ulla, Kasanen, Kati, and Komulainen, Katri
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- 2020
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8. University students’ perceptions of their abilities relate to their entrepreneurial intent
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Räty, Hannu, Komulainen, Katri, Hytti, Ulla, Kasanen, Kati, Siivonen, Päivi, and Kozlinska, Inna
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- 2019
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9. Young and/but successful: business graduates performing themselves as valuable labouring subjects.
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Korhonen, Maija, Siivonen, Päivi, Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka, Mutanen, Heli, and Komulainen, Katri
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EMPLOYABILITY ,BUSINESSPEOPLE ,YOUNG workers ,VALUE creation ,LABOR market ,SOCIAL skills - Abstract
This article advances critical theoretical and methodological approaches to employability. From the perspectives of neoliberal governmentality and positioning analysis, we investigate graduate employability as a process of creating value for the self in the labour markets. The study analyses how young Finnish business graduates (n = 19) who work in business organisations perform themselves as valuable labouring subjects in their interviews. Based on our analysis, we develop an argument that being a young business professional is simultaneously presented as a problem and a virtue in terms of a valuable labouring subject. The analysis shows that graduates cultivate themselves as easily employable, mature job seekers and successful young employees equipped with personal social skills, enthusiasm and youthful energy and drive. They draw on the neoliberal discourse of employability to negotiate issues identified as problematic – their young age and lack of work experience – in terms of their value. Their performances of the self are thus purposeful responses to the contextual expectations and pressures they encounter while competing for jobs and striving to gain recognition as novice professionals in organisations. The study reveals that graduates' whole subjectivity is at the core of the process of value creation in contemporary labour markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: a case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market
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Komulainen, Katri, primary
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- 2021
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11. Finnish Parents' Attitudes toward Entrepreneurship Education
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Räty, Hannu, Korhonen, Maija, Kasanen, Kati, Komulainen, Katri, Rautiainen, Riitta, and Siivonen, Päivi
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This study set out to investigate parental attitudes toward entrepreneurship education as evaluative directing components of social representations. A nationwide sample of parents (N = 625) was asked to indicate their opinions on a set of statements about entrepreneurship education. The parents' attitudinal orientation suggested that they would rather avoid entrepreneurship education than approach it. Additionally, parental evaluations contained indecision and polarised opinions, and most parents saw it as unlikely or were unsure whether their children would become entrepreneurs. Parental attitudes correlated with the established representations of education and subsequent policy stands, suggesting that entrepreneurship education has been made familiar by anchoring attitudes in the field of educational debates. It was suggested that current trends in educational policy and work life may stimulate the formation of polemical social representations pertaining to entrepreneurship education.
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- 2016
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12. Do 'Good Students' Make Better Entrepreneurs than 'Bad Learners?' Ninth-Grade Pupils' Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Abilities within the School's Discursive Practices
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Korhonen, Maija, Komulainen, Katri, Räty, Hannu, Mattanen, Johanna, and Hirva, Laura
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Research on entrepreneurship education (EE) has not discussed the comprehensive school's traditional discourse of abilities and the related aim of categorising pupils according to their "natural" talents. It has also neglected pupils' perceptions of entrepreneurial abilities; however, these perceptions are important for understanding the implementation of EE at school and its impact on how pupils position themselves at school and in working life. This study examined the ways entrepreneurial abilities were constructed by pupils in comprehensive school. The data were gathered through qualitative group interviews with 29 pupils (15-16 years old) from a school in eastern Finland. The following six interpretative repertoires were identified in the interviews: "academic talent," "predetermined career," "diligent student," "common sense," "personal characteristics" and "loyal friendship." The former three reproduced the school's meritocratic notion of abilities and the related class- and gender-specific distinctions between head-on and hands-on abilities. The latter three challenged the value of academic talent for entrepreneurship. The findings demonstrated that while the school's traditional discourse of abilities guides the pupils' perceptions, in the pupils' views entrepreneurial abilities are not evaluated according to the school's intelligence criteria alone. In their accounts, a discourse of an enterprising self, which characterises the European and Finnish policy for education and training, is emerging. This new discourse will create new dimensions for the categorisation of individual differences at school. The results are discussed in relation to the trait approach to entrepreneurship, the ability ideals of EE and the related proposal for inclusive pedagogy, and the teachers' perceptions that were explored in a previous study.
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- 2016
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13. Salvation or a Broken Promise? Two Adult Graduates' Social Positioning in Education and Working Life
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Siivonen, Päivi, Komulainen, Katri, Räty, Hannu, Korhonen, Maija, Kasanen, Kati, and Rautiainen, Riitta
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Finland has been celebrated as a country where everyone has the possibility to educate themselves and to get ahead in life through education. However, social differences of educability continue to persist and social differences of employability are further construed in the neo-liberal market economy. In this article we will examine 2 adult graduates' educational and working life histories based on an 8-year qualitative follow-up study. Lisa with a working-class background and Henri from a middle-class family have both graduated from general upper-secondary school for adults and also accomplished higher education degrees in adulthood. Lisa and Henri's cases show how class and gender, as well as age, intertwine in the construction of educability and employability in different narrative environments. Based on our analysis, academic education may turn out as a broken promise instead of a great salvation with good occupational prospects for individuals like Lisa with a working-class background.
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- 2016
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14. Is older entrepreneurship being silenced? A policy analysis of Finnish government programmes.
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Kupiainen, Paula, Komulainen, Katri, Eriksson, Päivi, and Räty, Hannu
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POLICY analysis ,ACTIVE aging ,OLDER people ,ENTREPRENEURSHIP ,POLITICAL entrepreneurship - Abstract
This post-structural policy analysis examines Finnish government programmes through the lens of neoliberal governmentality and the concepts of the entrepreneurial self and active ageing. In the context of Finland, as a Nordic welfare state in transition to a competition-state model, this study examines how government programmes construct an ageing workforce, especially regarding older entrepreneurship. The results suggest that older people are not only constructed as a difficult-to-employ workforce but also as passive and vulnerable care recipients. Furthermore, as a construction, older entrepreneurship is absent from the studied documents, suggesting that the older entrepreneurship is a marginalized group that has been silenced. This article increases knowledge about this silencing in terms of governmentality and provides perspectives via which to develop a more inclusive entrepreneurship policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. Young and/but successful: business graduates performing themselves as valuable labouring subjects
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Korhonen, Maija, primary, Siivonen, Päivi, additional, Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka, additional, Mutanen, Heli, additional, and Komulainen, Katri, additional
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- 2023
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16. Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals' discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation.
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Korhonen, Maija and Komulainen, Katri
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PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout , *WORK environment , *DISCUSSION , *PROBLEM solving , *CONVALESCENCE , *ATTITUDES of medical personnel , *MEDICAL personnel , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *DISCOURSE analysis , *PSYCHOLOGICAL distress , *GROUP process - Abstract
This discourse analytical study explores how health professionals (HPs) construct burnout as a form of mental distress in the context of Finnish burnout rehabilitation framed with a particular rehabilitation ethos. Burnout is a fuzzy concept and lacks a disease status. Therefore, it calls for context-specific definition and justification. By highlighting the socially and interactionally produced character of categories of mental distress, the study investigates the kinds of discourses HPs use to formulate "the problem" and its solutions, and how people dealing with burnout are categorized in these discourses. The data consists of field notes from the observation of group discussion sessions in two 1-year burnout rehabilitation courses. As a result of the analysis, five partly overlapping discourses were identified: psychological, evolutionary, healthy lifestyle, biomedical, and welfare. Within these discourses, people who experience burnout were categorized as over-conscientious employees, "good girls," "primitive people," self-responsible rehabilitees, patients, and (aging) employees with social and legal rights. Burnout rehabilitation and HPs' views reproduce a cultural and clinical discourse around burnout in which work-related problems are treated as individual-level problems and individuals are responsibilized for the management of mental distress. Based on the results, it is concluded that the hybrid type of interventions that attempt to influence both individual- and work-related problems behind burnout would help to prevent people dealing with burnout from being over-responsibilized for solving problems at the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Social Representations of Educability in Finland: 20 Years of Continuity and Change
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Raty, Hannu, Komulainen, Katri, and Hirva, Laura
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This study set out to replicate a survey conducted 20 years ago on Finnish parents' social representations of educability. A nationwide sample of parents (N = 642) were asked to indicate their opinions on a set of statements pertaining to topical educational issues. The results indicated that educational discussion is still structured by two major competing representations of intelligence, the "natural" and the "social", and the corresponding educational policies, the "selective" and the "comprehensive". Further, some novel and still relatively independent representations, such as the diversity of human abilities and entrepreneurship education, were identified. The comprehensive representation found support particularly among the vocationally educated parents, who were worried about social equality, while the selective representation, i.e., the ideology of natural giftedness, found support among the academically educated fathers. The representational field of educability seemed quite established, indicating relative continuity of educational discourse.
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- 2012
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18. Portraying Intelligence: Children's Drawings of Intelligent Men and Women in Finnish and Russian Karelia
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Raty, Hannu, Komulainen, Katri, Paajanen, Tuuli, Markkanen, Mia, Skorokhodova, Nina, and Kolesnikov, Vadim
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This study sets out to examine Finnish and Russian children's representations of intellectual competence as contextualised in the hierarchies of abilities, age and gender. Finnish and Russian pupils, aged 11-12 years, were asked to draw pictures of an intelligent person and an ordinary person. It was found that gender appearance of intelligent men and women was less heterosexual than that of ordinary men and women. In Russian pictures, the intelligent characters, especially women, were widely separated from the ordinary ones in terms of cognitive-mental features. In Finnish depictions, the differentiation between the intelligent and ordinary characters, especially women, was not so categorical and was primarily based on status. It appears that Russian children are apt to relate their representations of intellectual ability to the institutionalised systems of cognitive competence, education and science, whereas Finnish children associate intelligence to social success as well. Further, cultural and gender-related hierarchies of age seemed to reflect in the children's images. (Contains 3 tables and 4 figures.)
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- 2012
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19. 'Not Everyone Is Cut out to Be the Entrepreneur Type': How Finnish School Teachers Construct the Meaning of Entrepreneurship Education and the Related Abilities of the Pupils
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Korhonen, Maija, Komulainen, Katri, and Raty, Hannu
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The present study set out to explore how a group of Finnish school teachers constructs the meaning of entrepreneurship education and produces related characterizations of the abilities of the pupils in their interviews. In their discussions, the teachers deployed the discourses of "internal entrepreneurship" and "external entrepreneurship". Internal entrepreneurship was associated with the pupils' responsible attitude to (school) work; it was represented as an ideal subjectivity for all and accepted as the natural aim of schooling. The promotion of external entrepreneurship, however, was seen to be beyond the aims of basic education. Within the discourse of external entrepreneurship, the teachers explicated the differences between the pupils' abilities; they saw potential for entrepreneurship particularly in those boys who are not academically accomplished but are socially talented, creative, easygoing and risk-taking or competent at practical things. High-performing students, especially girls, were not included in the characterizations of "the entrepreneur type of pupil". (Contains 10 footnotes.)
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- 2012
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20. Internal Entrepreneurship--A Trojan Horse of the Neoliberal Governance of Education? Finnish Pre- and In-Service Teachers' Implementation of and Resistance towards Entrepreneurship Education
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Komulainen, Katri, Naskali, Paivi, Korhonen, Maija, and Keskitalo-Foley, Seija
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This paper explores the effects of neoliberal education policies, by examining how the Finnish pre- and in-service teachers engage with the discourses of "external" and "internal entrepreneurship", create related inclusions and exclusions, and implement or challenge the aim of educating enterprising and entrepreneurial citizens. Whereas the promotion of "external" entrepreneurship was seen to be in conflict with the values of basic education, and therefore substantially rejected as the aim of schooling, both the pre- and in-service teachers constructed the view that every pupil/student should be encouraged towards internal entrepreneurship, i.e. an enterprising mentality with attributes of self-responsibility, diligence and independence. Internal entrepreneurship, then, was considered as an universal and natural educational aim. We suggest that internal entrepreneurship as a manifestation of neoliberal subjectivity is difficult to subvert, because it fits well with the traditional aims of Finnish education. (Contains 10 footnotes.)
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- 2011
21. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: A Comparison of Pupils' Images of Intelligence in Finnish and Russian Karelia
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Raty, Hannu, Komulainen, Katri, Skorokhodova, Nina, Kolesnikov, Vadim, and Hamalainen, Anna
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The study set out to examine Finnish and Russian children's images of intelligence as contextualized in the systems of the school and gender. Finnish and Russian pupils, aged 11-12 years, were asked to draw pictures of an intelligent and an ordinary pupil and a good and an ordinary pupil. A distinctive feature shared by the children in both countries was that intelligent pupils were depicted as positively orientated to knowledge and studies and as similar to good pupils. The Russian children's pictures emphasized academic performance, suggesting that the contribution of the school to children's representations was greater in Russia than in Finland. In regard to gender appearance, the intelligent pupil was usually pictured in gender-neutral or childish features, suggesting that being defined as intellectually competent entailed deviating from the heterosexual ideal. In the discussion, the ambivalence associated with social definitions of intelligence is addressed.
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- 2011
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22. Risk-Taking Abilities for Everyone? Finnish Entrepreneurship Education and the Enterprising Selves Imagined by Pupils
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Komulainen, Katri, Korhonen, Maija, and Raty, Hannu
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This article examines the spread of the neo-liberal educational policy in Finnish schools by considering entrepreneurship education. We examined the kinds of gendered and classed enterprising selves that were narrated in the Finnish writing competition "Good Enterprise!" written by pupils in the 9th grade of comprehensive school. In their narratives of enterprising selves, the pupils constructed the middle-class version of the self, where the person was not contingent upon external effects but an autonomous self-governing individual. Moreover, the possible selves of boys matched the culturally valued representations of the autonomous, risk-taking entrepreneurial individual more closely than the self-representations of girls did. However, it was especially the boys' narratives of modest entrepreneurship with the traditional virtues of the respectable citizen that were successful in the competition. This finding is in conflict with the educational policies of the European Union, which call for risk-taking abilities and competition as pre-conditions for achieving progress. (Contains 2 tables.)
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- 2009
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23. Constructions of nation, family and gender: Collective narratives of war by evacuated Karelians
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KOMULAINEN, KATRI
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- 2003
24. Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation
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Korhonen, Maija, primary and Komulainen, Katri, additional
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- 2021
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25. Asiantuntijoita, monitaitoisia ja akateemisia yrittäjiä: Yliopisto-opiskelijoiden asemoituminen akateemisuuteen, työllistettävyyteen ja yrittäjyyteen
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Komulainen, Katri, Hirvonen, Inka, Kaskes, Katariina, Kasanen, Kati, and Siivonen, Päivi
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Tiedeartikkeli ,yrittäjyys [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1182] ,yliopisto-opiskelijat ,yrittäjyyskasvatus [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p19497] ,työllistettävyys ,identiteetti [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p9743] ,akateemisuus ,positiot ,työllistyminen [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3542] - Abstract
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan yliopisto-opiskelijoiden identiteettien rakentumista tilanteessa, jossa taloudelliset päämäärät ovat muokanneet yliopistojen toimintaa ja arvoja. Tulkitsimme 28 yliopisto-opiskelijan haastattelua siitä näkökulmasta, kuinka he asemoivat itsensä suhteessa akateemisuuden, työllistettävyyden ja yrittäjyyden moraalisiin järjestyksiin ja rakensivat samalla identiteettiään tulkitessaan koulutuspolkuaan ja siirtymää työelämään. Käytimme analyysimenetelmänä identiteetin kolmiulotteista positiointianalyysiä moraalisten järjestysten identifioinnin ohella. Analyysin tuloksena erotimme kolme identiteettipositiota. 1) Kun yliopisto-opiskelijat jäsensivät itseään, koulutuspolkuaan ja siirtymää työelämään akateemisuuden viitekehyksessä, he asemoivat itsensä asiantuntijoiksi, joille yliopistotutkinto merkitsi odotuksia nousujohteisesta urasta työelämässä. 2) Kun omaa polkua jäsennettiin työllistettävyyden viitekehyksessä ja monitaitoisen positiosta käsin, katsottiin, että akateemisten hyveiden ohella tai jopa asemesta opiskelijoilla tulisi olla henkilökohtaisia taitoja ja asenteita, kuten tiimityötaitoja, jotka lisäävät heidän kilpailukykyisyyttään epävarmoilla työmarkkinoilla. 3) Analyysissä tunnistimme myös akateemisen yrittäjän position, josta käsin yrittäjyys nähtiin itselle todennäköisenä, vaikkakaan ei kovin toivottuna uravaihtoehtona. Artikkeli perustuu Suomen Akatemian projektiin numero 295 958.
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- 2019
26. Aged and gendered master narratives on entrepreneurship in Finnish higher education
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Siivonen, Päivi Tuulikki, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Kasanen, Kati, additional, and Kupiainen, Paula, additional
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- 2021
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27. The creation of coherence in the transitional career. A narrative case study of the woman entrepreneur
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Sinisalo, Pentti and Komulainen, Katri
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- 2008
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28. Kouluun vai palveluiden äärelle
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Koivisto, Hanna, Komulainen, Katri, and Räty, Hannu
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positioning ,small stories ,positio ,pieni kertomus ,Artikkelit ,first-year university students ,yliopisto-opiskelu ,university studies ,elämänkulun murrosvaihe - Abstract
Selvitimme tutkimuksessamme nykypäivän massoittuneeseen, uusliberalistiseen ja digitalisoituvaan yliopistoon saapuvien uusien opiskelijoiden tulkintoja opintojen alkuvaiheesta ja vertaistuen merkityksestä. Tarkastelimme sitä, millä tavoin ensimmäisen vuoden opiskelijat rakentavat kertomuksissaan käsitystä itsestään yliopisto-opiskelijoina, millaisena opintojen alkuvaihe näyttäytyy fuksin näkökulmasta sekä sitä, millaisia merkityksiä ainejärjestö ja yliopisto yhteisönä laajemminkin opiskelijoiden kertomuksissa saavat. Tutkimusaineistomme muodostui 64 ensimmäisen vuoden opiskelijan vastauksista puolistrukturoituun opintojen alkuvaihetta koskevaan kirjoituskutsuun. Käsittelimme aineistoa pieninä kertomuksina ja hyödynsimme identiteetin ulottuvuuksien, kategorioiden ja positioinnin käsitteitä. Opiskelijoiden tuottamista pienistä kertomuksista erottui useita itsen asemoinnin tapoja, jotka nimesimme perinteisen akateemisen, asiakkaan, koululaisen ja vierailijan positioiksi. Erilaiset tavat positioitua olivat yhteydessä erilaisiin kategorioihin. Esimerkiksi kertomuksissa perinteisestä akateemisesta ja koululaisfuksista niin sanottu ”hyvän opiskelijan” kategoria oli yhteneväinen, mutta kirjoittajan suhde siihen rakentui erilaiseksi. Asiakkaan positiosta käsin kertomuksissa rakennettiin opiskelusta instrumentaalista ”omaa projektia”. Vierailijan positiosta tarkasteltuna suhde opintoihin ja opiskeluympäristöön esittäytyi kokonaisuudessaan ristiriitaisena. Pohdimme tuloksiemme merkitystä yliopisto-opintojen alkuvaiheen ymmärtämisen sekä alkuohjauksen kehittämisen kannalta., In this study we were interested in how first-year university students experience the beginning of their university life as they enter the modern university. We examined how first-year students construct their view of themselves in their small stories, how the beginning of the university studies appears from their viewpoint and what kind of meanings they attach to the university and its social environment. Our research data consisted of 64 new students’ written responses to our semi-structured questionnaire. We treated our research material as small stories, and in our analysis, we utilised the concepts of category, dimensions of identity, and positioning. We found several types of positioning in the students’ small stories and named those positions Traditional Academic, Pupil, Customer and Visitor. In addition, we found several categories. The so-called “good student” category was constructed in a similar way in both Traditional Academic and Pupil newcomer narratives, but the students’ relationship to it varied. The narratives of Customers constructed an instrumental “project” relationship towards studies. The Visitors’ position to studies and university manifested ambivalence. Furthermore, tutors, student associations and the university in general appeared very different depending on the position from which they were viewed. We reflect on the meaning of our results in enhancing the understanding of the transition to university studies and what our findings could bring into the new student orientation.
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- 2020
29. Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course: a longitudinal narrative method
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Korhonen, Maija, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, and Okkonen, Venla, additional
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- 2020
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30. “How to Give a Killer Pitch?” Performances of Entrepreneurial Narratives as Identity Models in Higher Education
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Komulainen, Katri, primary, Siivonen, Päivi, additional, Kasanen, Kati, additional, and Räty, Hannu, additional
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- 2020
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31. "What kind of person am I?"
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Räty, Hannu, primary, Hytti, Ulla, additional, Kasanen, Kati, additional, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Siivonen, Päivi, additional, and Kozlinska, Inna, additional
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- 2020
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32. The construction and regulation of collective entrepreneurial identity in student entrepreneurship societies
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Siivonen, Päivi Tuulikki, primary, Peura, Kirsi, additional, Hytti, Ulla, additional, Kasanen, Kati, additional, and Komulainen, Katri, additional
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- 2019
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33. Perceived employability and ability self among Finnish university students
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Räty, Hannu, primary, Hytti, Ulla, additional, Kasanen, Kati, additional, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Siivonen, Päivi, additional, and Kozlinska, Inna, additional
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- 2019
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34. University students’ perceptions of their ‘ability selves’ and employability: a pilot study
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Räty, Hannu, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Harvorsén, Carita, additional, Nieminen, Anna, additional, and Korhonen, Maija, additional
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- 2018
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35. Opettajien tulkinnat yrittäjyyskasvatuksen tavoitteista diskursiivisena kamppailuna
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Korhonen, Maija, Komulainen, Katri, and Räty, Hannu
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Artikkelit - Abstract
2000-luvulla suomalainen koulutusjärjestelmä on kohdannut voimistuneen vaatimuksen edistää yrittäjyyttä osana muuta kasvatusta ja opetusta. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan yrittäjyyskasvatuksen vastaanottoa koulussa analysoimalla peruskoulun yläkoulun opettajien tulkintoja yrittäjyyskasvatuksen tavoitteista diskursiivisen kamppailun ja uusliberalistisen hallinnan näkökulmista. Analyysin kautta osoitetaan, että opettajat neuvottelevat yrittäjyyskasvatuksen tavoitteista koulukeskustelun historiallisesti muotoutuneessa diskursiivisessa kentässä., In the 2000s there have been major policy efforts for strengthening entrepreneurship education in Finnish education. The article explores the micro-level, discursive reception of entrepreneurship education in schools by analyzing how a group of comprehensive school teachers construct the aims of entrepreneurship education in their interviews. The analysis shows that the teachers negotiate the aims of entrepreneurship education through and in relation to the historically produced discourses of schooling. Within the school context, entrepreneurship education appears as an ideologically dilemmatic phenomenon because new discourses and ideals are made intelligible by considering them within the well-established, value-based discourses of schooling. When the teachers argue for and against the aims of entrepreneurship education they produce normative statements concerning equality, competition, and the abilities of individuals. Thus, they make sense of the aims of entrepreneurship education by reflecting the same contentious issues and questions that have historically been in the core of the school debate.
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36. Do ‘good students’ make better entrepreneurs than ‘bad learners’? Ninth-grade pupils’ perceptions of entrepreneurial abilities within the school’s discursive practices
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Korhonen, Maija, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Räty, Hannu, additional, Mattanen, Johanna, additional, and Hirva, Laura, additional
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37. Salvation or a Broken Promise? Two Adult Graduates’ Social Positioning in Education and Working Life
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Siivonen, Päivi, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Räty, Hannu, additional, Korhonen, Maija, additional, Kasanen, Kati, additional, and Rautiainen, Riitta, additional
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38. 'Mul on amerikkalaisten työajattelumalli': Itsensä työllistävien naisten urakertomukset ja yrittäjäminä
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Komulainen, Katri and Sinisalo, Pentti
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Tarkastelemme artikkelissa uusien, proteaanisten ja rajattomien urien piirteitä itsensä työllistävien naisten urakertomusten kautta. Koska uusiin uriin on liitetty sekä yksilön potentiaaleja että epävarmuutta korostavia piirteitä, analysoimme, missä määrin uusiin uriin liittyvät piirteet ”valtauttavat” tutkittavia ja millaisia (erityisesti sukupuoleen) liittyviä jännitteitä ja ristiriitoja uusiin uriin sisältyy. Erittelemme, millä tavoin naiset työstävät merkityksenannossaan uraan liittyvää epävarmuutta ja epäjatkuvuutta ja tuomme esille, kuinka he rakentavat uran jatkuvuutta individualistisen ja essentialistisen yrittäjäminän viitekehyksessä.
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39. Aurinkolämpö - teknologia ja mahdollisuudet
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Komulainen, Katri
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40. On entrepreneurship, in a different voice? Finnish entrepreneurship education and pupils’ critical narratives of the entrepreneur
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Komulainen, Katri Johanna, primary, Korhonen, Maija, additional, and Räty, Hannu, additional
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41. Bringing up global or local citizens?
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Korhonen, Maija, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, and Räty, Hannu, additional
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42. A picture is worth a thousand words: a comparison of pupils’ images of intelligence in Finnish and Russian Karelia
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Räty, Hannu, primary, Komulainen, Katri, additional, Skorokhodova, Nina, additional, Kolesnikov, Vadim, additional, and Hämäläinen, Anna, additional
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43. Neoliberal educational policy – A case study of Finnish textbooks of entrepreneurial education
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Komulainen, Katri Johanna, primary
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44. The Past is Difference - The Difference is Past
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Komulainen, Katri, primary
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45. A course of one's own: The rhetorical self in educational life stories by women
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Komulainen, Katri, primary
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46. Neoliberal educational policy.
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Komulainen, Katri Johanna
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The article explores the effects of a neoliberal education policy on equality through an analysis of Finnish textbooks in entrepreneurial education. What kind of constructions do we find in these textbooks regarding the ideal citizen? The analysis shows how the new education policy emphasizes competition and individuality while de-emphasizing social differences and equating all citizens by espousing individuality People are responsible for their own advancement. On the other hand, the textbooks emphasize gender and class differences at the cost of equality highlighting the interconnections linking entrepreneurship, leadership, individuality and middle-class masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. You never travel alone : challenging the masculine ethos of individualism in academic entrepreneurship
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Tiina Suopajärvi, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Minna Salminen Karlsson, Eriksson, Päivi, Hytti, Ulla, Komulainen, Katri, Montonen, Tero, Siivonen, Päivi, Tampere University, and Unit of Social Research
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Ethos ,Individualism ,Entrepreneurship ,5141 Sociology ,Gender studies ,Sociology - Abstract
This study focuses on women’s experiences of becoming and being academic entrepreneurs in the research area of health technology in Finland and Sweden. We follow the feminist critics of entrepreneurship studies, which focus mainly on how women could fit better into the masculine idea of entrepreneurship and thus how women could become more risk-taking and self-centred. Through our analyses of women’s career interviews, we argue that academic entrepreneurship is a social matter where the desire to benefit others, a wish to work in a non-hierarchical environment, and social relations in the private and public spheres of life matter. We further show how entrepreneurial journeys are quite versatile and depend on women’s life situations, for example, but also on the academic structures that appear more rigid in Finland than in Sweden. Finally, we state that academic entrepreneurship demands openness to search for and receive support. acceptedVersion
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48. Toiseuksien rakentuminen koulussa : Tutkimus opetussuunnitelmista ja kahden helsinkiläisen alakoulun arjesta
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Riitaoja, Anna-Leena, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Teacher Education, Helsingin yliopisto, käyttäytymistieteellinen tiedekunta, opettajankoulutuslaitos, Helsingfors universitet, beteendevetenskapliga fakulteten, institutionen för lärarutbildning, Komulainen, Katri, Tani, Sirpa, Löytönen, Markku, and Raento, Pauliina
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kasvatustiede - Abstract
In my study I research how differences and Otherness are constructed in curriculum texts and in everyday practices in two Finnish public primary schools. The data consist of Finnish National Core Curriculum texts for basic education written in 1970, 1985, 1994 and 2004, interviews from two authorities who served on the National Board of Education in 2007 and ethnographic observation and interview data from two primary schools in Helsinki in 2008 2009. I have analyzed the data through postcolonial, poststructural, and feminist discursive and ethnographic reading. The analysis of curriculum texts 1985 2004 and school practices reveals that differences among students are to be considered embodied, not as contextually and relationally constructed. The schooling is based on the notion of a normal individual student resulting in differences seen as deviant and abnormal. Still in the curriculum in 1970 the notion of difference contained the idea of multiple, contextually and relationally constructed differences related to all students and teachers. In the everyday school practices certain differences with regard to learning, behavior, race, nationality and religion were considered more deviant than other differences. Such differences among students were considered simultaneously as positive and negative. Students labeled as special, multicultural, immigrant, and urban became the objects of worry and normalization. Differentiation and hierarchization related to nationality, race, gender, sexuality, social class, worldview, age, and the right knowledge and skills resulted in both inclusive and exclusive practices among students and school staff. The staff tried to change negative meanings toward the positive in many ways. However, by redefining the normal they reproduced the abnormal again. Meanwhile the process of difference-making and Othering is not recognized. Negotiations to change the school culture are problematic, especially when negotiating with the colonial Other constructed as traditional, lacking autonomy, irrational, and intolerant in relation to the autonomous, rational and tolerant Finnish subject. In this discourse the Finnish subject, considered as white, middle class, and equal, has the burden of setting the limits of social orders and maintaining them. I suggest paying more attention to the structures that regulate the practices of schooling and the notions of differences, subject, humanity and knowledge resulting in hierarchies and Othering. Otherwise the aims of unraveling inequalities may result in constructing new inequalities. Tutkimuksessani tarkastelen, miten erot ja toiseudet tuotetaan opetussuunnitelmissa ja koulun arjessa. Aineistonani ovat peruskoulun opetussuunnitelman perusteet vuosilta 1970, 1985, 1994 ja 2004, kahden Opetushallituksen asiantuntijan haastattelu vuodelta 2007 sekä kahden helsinkiläisen peruskoulun alaluokilla vuosina 2008 2009 tuottamani havainnointi- ja haastatteluaineisto. Tutkimusote on etnografinen ja diskurssianalyyttinen. Erot ajateltiin vuosien 1985 2004 opetussuunnitelmissa ja koulun käytännöissä oppilaan pysyviksi ominaisuuksiksi. Toiminta perustui käsitykseen normaalista yksilöstä , jolloin eroista tuli erilaisuutta ja poikkeavuutta normaalista. Sen sijaan vuoden 1970 opetussuunnitelmassa erot ymmärrettiin kaikkiin oppilaisiin ja opettajiin liittyviksi sekä koulun tavoitteiden ja vuorovaikutuksen pohjalta muodostuviksi. Koulun arjessa erityisen erilaisina pidettiin oppimiseen ja käyttäytymiseen sekä toisaalta kieleen, ihonväriin, kansallisuuteen ja uskontoon liittyviä eroja. Erilaisiksi nimettyjä oppilaita arvotettiin yhtä aikaa myönteisiksi ja kielteisiksi. Heidän arvonsa oli välineellistä. Erityisiksi, monikulttuurisiksi, maahanmuuttajiksi ja lähiöoppilaiksi nimetyistä oppilaista tuli huolipuheen ja normaalistavien erityistoimien kohteita. Kansallisuuteen, ihonväriin, sukupuoleen, seksuaalisuuteen, yhteiskuntaluokkaan, katsomukseen, ikään, kyvykkyyteen sekä oikein tietämiseen ja taitamiseen liittyvät erottelut ja hierarkiat toimivat suostuttelun, mukaan ottamisen ja ulkopuolelle sulkemisen välineinä sekä oppilaiden että henkilökunnan keskuudessa. Hierarkioita yritettiin purkaa puhumalla kielteisiä merkityksiä myönteisiksi sekä tekemällä poikkeuksia samanlaisen kohtelun pääsääntöön , mutta erottelun prosessi sekä koulun yhteiskunnallisista tehtävistä juontuvat ehdot jäivät tunnistamatta. Toimintakulttuurin muuttamista koskevia neuvotteluja pidettiin ongelmallisina erityisesti ei-valkoisen koloniaalisen toisen kanssa, joka tuotettiin traditionaaliseksi, epäitsenäiseksi, epärationaaliseksi ja suvaitsemattomaksi suhteessa moderniin, autonomiseen, rationaaliseen ja suvaitsevaan valkoihoiseen suomalaiseen subjektiin. Valkoisen, keskiluokkaisen ja tasa-arvoiseksi ajatellun suomalaisen subjektin tehtävänä katsottiin rajojen asettaminen ja niistä kiinni pitäminen. Olisikin tarpeen kiinnittää enemmän huomiota koulun toimintaa sääteleviin rakenteisiin sekä eroja, subjektia, ihmisyyttä ja tietoa koskeviin käsityksiin, jotka tuottavat hierarkioita ja toiseutta. Muutoin pyrkimykset näiden purkamiseksi saattavatkin tuottaa uusia eriarvoisuuksia toiseen kohtaan.
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49. Ryhmärajoja ja hierarkioita : etnografinen tutkimus peruskoulun yläasteen liikunnanopetuksesta
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Berg, Päivi, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Psychology, Helsingin yliopisto, valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta, sosiaalipsykologian laitos, Helsingfors universitet, statsvetenskapliga fakulteten, socialpsykologiska institutionen, Komulainen, Katri, Helkama, Klaus, and Lahelma, Elina
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This study examines gender as a dimension of group divisions and differences in physical education (PE) lessons at school. The aim is to look at those structures and practices which direct the ways the girls and the boys move their bodies at secondary school in 2000’s while growing up to become women and men. Theoretically, the goal is to clarify how the social is inscribed to the bodies in the context of physical education lessons at school. This ethnographic study was conducted in the physical education lessons of 7th graders (13-14-year-olds) by observing the everyday life in five PE groups and by interviewing pupils (N=27) and their teachers (N=2). This method has given the researcher “a sense of the game”; an embodied experience of the feel for the game of the studied phenomenon. The access to the contextual “positions of expertise” does not seem to be socially and materially equally distributed in physical education. In PE the criteria of inclusion and exclusion were intertwined with physical skills and friendships, these hierarchies becoming visible in the situations of team choice in PE lessons. Not all families have possibilities to enable their children to participate in expensive leisure sports activities. Therefore the family’s societal position is in relation to the construction of leisure time activities. The access to certain possibilities demands time and money. In Finland the physical education is mainly carried out in differentiated groups for girls and boys. In physical education, the gender-differentiated groups, and partially the different practices of these groups activate, and on the other hand suppress, situations of gender related borderwork. In this research, both pupils and PE teachers repeatedly mentioned the naturality of the differences while speaking about gender. The differences were also restored to gender. I apply Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical view to the social situations, ethnographic fieldwork and interviews. My central statement is that in ethnography the audience has access to the backstage of the researcher since reporting does not follow the traditional division to the public and the private. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan sukupuolta ryhmärajojen ja erontekojen ulottuvuutena koulun liikuntatunneilla. Tavoite on tutkia niitä rakenteita ja käytäntöjä, jotka suuntaavat tyttöjen ja poikien ruumiin liikuttamisen tapoja heidän kasvaessaan miehiksi ja naisiksi 2000-luvun peruskoulussa. Teoreettisesti ilmaistuna tavoite on selvittää, kuinka sosiaalinen kirjautuu ruumiiseen koululiikunnan kontekstissa. Tutkimus on tehty peruskoulun yläasteen 7.luokkalaisten liikuntatunneilla etnografisin menetelmin; havainnoimalla yhden lukuvuoden liikuntatuntien arkea viidessä liikuntaryhmässä ja haastattelemalla oppilaita (N=27) sekä heitä opettaneita liikunnanopettajia (N=2). Tutkimuksen toteutustapa on antanut tutkijalle ”pelin tuntua”, ruumiissa koettua pelin tajua tutkimastani ilmiöstä. Työ sijoittuu sosiaalipsykologisen ryhmätutkimuksen kenttään. Sosiaalisia eroja tarkastellaan arkielämässä rakentuvina elettyinä eroina sekä tilaan, aikaan ja ruumiillisuuteen liittyvien toistuvien materiaalisten käytäntöjen tuloksena. Pääsy kontekstuaalisiin ”taitajan positioihin” ei näytä olevan koululiikunnassa sosiaalisesti ja materiaalisesti tasaisesti jakautunutta. Liikuntatunneilla mukaan ottamisen ja ulos sulkemisen kriteerit kietoutuivat liikunnallisiin taitoihin ja kaverisuhteisiin, hierarkioihin, jotka tulevat näkyviksi liikuntatuntien pelaajavalinnoissa. Kaikkien perheiden lapsilla ei ole mahdollisuutta kalliisiin liikuntaharrastuksiin. Perheen asema on siis yhteydessä vapaa-ajan käytön elämäntavalliseen rakentumiseen. Pääsy tiettyjen valintojen tekemiseen edellytti aikaa ja rahaa. Suomessa peruskoulun yläasteen liikunnanopetus toteutetaan pääosin tyttöjen ja poikien erillisissä ryhmissä. Koululiikunnassa mahdollisia paikkoja sukupuoleen liittyvien rajatyötilanteiden aktivoitumiselle tai toisaalta vaientamiselle ovat tyttöjen ja poikien erilliset ryhmät, osittain näiden ryhmien erilaiset käytännöt. Tutkimuksessa sekä oppilaat että opettajat toistivat puheessaan sukupuolesta erojen luontaisuuden, johon myös erot palautettiin.
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50. From a 'Student' to a Lifelong 'Consumer' : Constructions of Educability in Adult Students' Narrative Life Histories
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Siivonen, Päivi, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Applied Sciences of Education, Helsingin yliopisto, käyttäytymistieteellinen tiedekunta, soveltavan kasvatustieteen laitos, Helsingfors universitet, beteendevetenskapliga fakulteten, institutionen för tillämpad pedagogik, Filander, Karin, Kallioniemi, Arto, and Komulainen, Katri
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The focus of this study was to examine the constructions of the educable subject of the lifelong learning (LLL) narrative in the narrative life histories of adult students at general upper secondary school for adults (GUSSA). In this study lifelong learning has been defined as a cultural narrative on education, “a system of political thinking” that is not internally consistent, but has contradictory themes embedded within it (Billig et al., 1988). As earlier research has shown and this study also confirms, the LLL narrative creates differences between those who are included and those who fall behind and are excluded from the learning society ideal. Educability expresses socially constructed interpretations on who benefit from education and who should be educated and how. The presupposition in this study has been that contradictions between the LLL narrative and the so-called traditional constructions of educability are likely to be constructed as the former relies on the all-inclusive interpretation of educability and the latter on the meritocratic model of educating individuals based on their innate abilities. The school system continues to uphold the institutionalized ethos of educability that ranks students into the categories “bright”, “mediocre”, and “poor” (Räty & Snellman, 1998) on the basis of their abilities, including gender-related differences as well as differences based on social class. Traditional age-related norms also persist, for example general upper secondary education is normatively completed in youth and not in adulthood, and the formal learning context continues to outweigh both non-formal and informal learning. Moreover, in this study the construction of social differences in relation to educability and, thereafter unequal access to education has been examined in relation to age, social class, and gender. The biographical work of the research participants forms a peephole that permits the examination of the dilemmatic nature of the constructions of educability in this study. Formal general upper secondary education in adulthood is situated on the border between the traditional and the LLL narratives on educability: participation in GUSSA inevitably means that one’s ability and competence as a student and learner becomes reassessed through the assessment criteria maintained by schools, whereas according to the principles of LLL everyone is educable; everyone is encouraged to learn throughout their lives regardless of age, social class, or gender. This study is situated in the field of adult education, sociology of education, and social psychological research on educability, having also been informed by feminist studies. Moreover, this study contributes to narrative life history research combining the structural analysis of narratives (Labov & Waletzky, 1997), i.e. mini-stories within life history, with the analysis of the life histories as structural and thematic wholes and the creation of coherence in them; thus, permitting both micro and macro analyses. On accounting for the discontinuity created by participation in general upper secondary school study in adulthood and not normatively in youth, the GUSSA students construct coherence in relation to their ability and competence as students and learners. The seven case studies illuminate the social differences constructed in relation to educability, i.e. social class, gender, age, and the “new category of student and learner”. In the data of this study, i.e. 20 general upper secondary school adult graduates’ narrative life histories primarily generated through interviews, two main coherence patterns of the adult educable subject emerge. The first performance-oriented pattern displays qualities that are closely related to the principles of LLL. Contrary to the principles of lifewide learning, however, the documentation of one’s competence through formal qualifications outweighs non-formal and informal learning in preparation for future change and the competition for further education, professional careers, and higher social positions. The second flexible learning pattern calls into question the status of formal, especially theoretical and academically oriented education; inner development is seen as more important than such external signs of development — grades and certificates. Studying and learning is constructed as a hobby and as a means to a more satisfactory life as opposed to a socially and culturally valued serious occupation leading to further education and career development. Consequently, as a curious, active, and independent learner, this educable but not readily employable subject is pushed into the periphery of lifelong learning. These two coherence patterns of the adult educable subject illuminate who is to be educated and how. The educable and readily employable LLL subject is to participate in formal education in order to achieve qualifications for working life, whereas the educable but not employable subject may utilize lifewide learning for her/his own pleasure. Key words: adult education, general upper secondary school for adults, educability, lifelong learning, narrative life history Tutkimuksessani tarkastelen kompetentin koulutettavan subjektin rakentumista elinikäisen oppimisen näkökulmasta aikuislukiosta valmistuneiden narratiivisissa elämänhistorioissa. Elinikäinen oppiminen määrittyy työssäni kulttuuriseksi koulutuskertomukseksi, ”poliittisen ajattelun järjestelmäksi”, joka ei ole sisäisesti yhtenäinen, vaan johon sisältyy myös ristiriitoja. Vaikka elinikäinen oppiminen on kaikkialla yhteiskunnassa vaikuttava suuri pelastuskertomus, tämä tutkimus osaltaan vahvistaa, että kaikilla ei ole itsestään selvästi pääsyä oppimisyhteiskunnan ideaaliin. Koulutettavuus määrittyy työssäni tulkinnaksi siitä, kenellä on oikeus koulutukseen ja millaiseen koulutukseen. Työni lähtökohtana on koulutettavuuden tulkintoihin sisältyvä ristiriita elinikäiseen oppimiseen sisältyvän kaikkia koskevan koulutettavuuden ja meritokraattisen yksilön luonnollisiin kykyihin perustuvan koulutettavuuden välillä. Koulujärjestelmä ylläpitää institutionaalista koulutettavuuden eetosta, joka jakaa opiskelijat kykyjensä mukaisiin kategorioihin ”hyvät”, ”keskinkertaiset” ja ”huonot”. Koulutettavuuden eetokseen sisältyvät myös sukupuolen ja sosiaalisen aseman mukaiset julkilausumattomat erottelut. Niin ikään totutut ikäsidonnaiset odotukset tarjoavat normatiivisen mallin, jonka mukaan esimerkiksi lukio käydään nuorena eikä aikuisuudessa. Elinikäisen oppimisen kertomus puolestaan korostaa myös muodollisen koulujärjestelmän ulkopuolella ja myöhemmällä iällä tapahtuvan koulutuksen arvoa. Aikuislukio sijoittuu niin kutsutun perinteisen ja elinikäisen oppimisen koulutettavuuden tulkintojen rajapinnalle, ja oma kyky opiskelijana ja oppijana tulee uudelleen arvioitavaksi koulun ylläpitämin arviointikriteerein. Myös oman koulutustien epäjatkuvuutta joudutaan arvioimaan ja selittämään. Tarkastelen tutkimuksessani, miten nämä perusdilemmat jäsentävät aikuisopiskelijoiden koulutuselämänhistorioiden merkityksenantoa ja elämänkerrallista työtä. Tutkimus sijoittuu aikuiskasvatuksen alueelle ja edustaa teoreettisesti ja metodologisesti naistutkimuksesta vaikutteita saanutta narratiivista elämänhistoriatutkimusta. Tutkimuksella on kytkentöjä kasvatussosiologiaan ja sosiaalipsykologiseen koulutettavuustutkimukseen. Aineiston analyysissä yhdistyy Labovin ja Waletzkyn rakennemallia hyödyntävä elämänhistoriaan sisältyvien narratiivien lähiluku sekä jatkuvuuden (koherenssin) rakentumisen analyysi elämänhistorian kokonaisuudessa, joka mahdollistaa sekä mikro- että makrotason analyysin. Aikuislukiosta valmistuneet opiskelijat rakentavat elämänhistoriallista jatkuvuutta suhteessa omaan kykyynsä opiskella ja oppia selittäessään koulutustiensä epäjatkuvuutta. Seitsemän tapaustutkimusta valottaa koulutettavuuteen liittyvien sosiaalisten erojen rakentumista suhteessa sosiaaliluokkaan, sukupuoleen, ikään ja ”uuteen opiskelijan ja oppijan kategoriaan”. Kahdenkymmenen pääasiassa haastatteluin tuotetun aikuislukiosta valmistuneen opiskelijan narratiivisista elämänhistorioista on tulkittavissa kaksi koulutettavan subjektin jatkuvuuden rakentumisen mallia. Ensimmäisessä suoritussuuntautuneessa mallissa jatkuvuus rakentuu läheisessä suhteessa elinikäisen oppimisen periaatteisiin. Kuitenkin vastoin elämänlevyisen oppimisen periaatteita oman pätevyyden osoittaminen muodollisesta koulutuksesta saaduin tutkinnoin rakentuu tärkeämmäksi kuin esimerkiksi työpaikkojen ja kansalaisopistojen kurssit tai arkielämän oppiminen. Toinen joustavan oppimisen malli taas kyseenalaistaa teoreettisen ja akateemisen oppimisen arvon: oma kehittyminen rakentuu tärkeämmäksi kuin koulutuksen ulkoiset tunnusmerkit, arvosanat ja tutkinnot. Tällä uteliaalla, aktiivisella ja itsenäisellä oppijalla ei kuitenkaan ole pääsyä elinikäisen oppimisen ideaaliin, vaan oppiminen mahdollistuu harrastuksena ja keinona tyydyttävämpään elämään. Se ei rakennu yhteiskunnallisesti merkityksellisenä toimintana, jonka päämääränä olisivat jatko-opinnot ja urakehitys. ”Suoritussuuntautuneen” ja ”joustavan oppimisen” mallit kuvaavat, ketä kannattaa kouluttaa ja miten. Valmius työllistyä on tutkimukseni mukaan oleellinen osa elinikäisen oppimisen ideaalia. Koulutettavan ja työllistettävissä olevan elinikäisen oppimisen subjektin tulee osallistua formaaliin koulutukseen saavuttaakseen tutkintoja työelämää varten, kun taas koulutettava mutta ei työllistettävissä oleva subjekti voi oppia elämänlevyisesti omaksi ilokseen. Avainsanat: aikuiskasvatus, aikuislukio, koulutettavuus, elinikäinen oppiminen, narratiivi, elämänhistoria
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