Selaus tekijän mukaan kokoelmassa 5 Yhteiskuntatieteet
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A Discourse Analytic Approach to HEI Leadership in Finland : The What and How of Rectors’ Leadership
Tigerstedt, Christa (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 13.05.2022)This dissertation is about the leadership in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Finland. It consists of five articles, or sub-studies, and a compilation. This dissertation focuses on the rector’s leadership practice ... -
A Jungian Theory of Mind : Individuality, lost, gained, and transcended
Alho, Päivi (Åbo Akademi University, 08.05.2020)Every time an individual or a society gets into an inner or outer conflict, it questions its worldview and recognised values, and the personal and collective identity are activated on an unconscious level. Deep changes in ... -
Aspects of Mental Health in Adolescents and Female Prisoners in Present-Day Iran
Khademi, Jalal (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 22.02.2019) -
Att främja yngre elevers algebraiska tänkande – med lärandeverksamhet som redskap
Wettergren, Sanna (Åbo Akademi, 08.06.2022)Den här avhandlingen handlar om en skolmatematisk verksamhet där ett centralt mål är att utveckla elevers matematiska tänkande, närmare bestämt deras algebraiska tänkande. Avhandlingen adresserar matematikundervisning ... -
Att förvärva yrkesläraridentitet. En fenomenografisk yrkespedagogisk studie av praktikhandledningens inflytande på yrkeslärarstuderandes identitetsutveckling.
Romar, Eivor (Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 11.12.2017)Läraridentiteten är ett centralt element i lärares utveckling och förknippas med termer som ämnesmässig kunskap eller pedagogisk och didaktisk expertis. Yrkeslärarens roll kan ses som mångfacetterad, eftersom yrkesläraren ... -
Att vara och agera medborgare : En etnografisk studie i folkbildande praktiker
Pastuhov, Annika (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 02.02.2018)This thesis is directed towards examining the relation between the ideals of Nordic popular education, such as freedom and equality, and the expressions of these ideals in the popular education practices. This was explored ... -
Combining School and Sport in Finnish Lower Secondary School : The Interplay Among Engagement, Burnout and Experiences in Student Athletes’ Dual Career Adjustment
Kuokkanen, Joni (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 29.04.2022)The current alarming trend in sports shows that many potential future elite athletes opt to dropout of sports before the age of 15 due to insuperable problems in satisfactorily balancing sport with other spheres of life. ... -
Community, Diversity and Visuality – an ethno-case study on constructing identities and becoming legitimate participants in online/offline communities
Ståhl, Matilda (Åbo Akademi University, 10.12.2021)Since the launch of the first web browser, the early-nineties was dominated by a view of the Internet as a utopian space for identity play and community building. However online platforms are currently not utopian environments ... -
Dancing/Reading/Writing : Performative Potentials of Intra-Active Teaching Pedagogies Expanding Literacy Education
Jusslin, Sofia (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 11.12.2020)This thesis contributes to the fields of creative dance and literacy education by developing teaching pedagogies that integrate creative dance into students’ reading and writing processes and by exploring what is produced ... -
Designing new learning experiences? : exploring corporate E-learners’ self-regulated learning
Wiklund-Engblom, Annika (Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 28.08.2015)The context of this study is corporate e-learning, with an explicit focus on how digital learning design can facilitate self-regulated learning (SRL). The field of e-learning is growing rapidly. An increasing number of ... -
Development of Academic Well-Being during Secondary Education : Relations to Performance, Motivational Beliefs, and Aspirations
Widlund, Anna (Åbo Akademi University, 17.09.2021)The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the developmental dynamics between academic well-being (school engagement and burnout), academic performance (mathematics and reading tests), and motivational beliefs ... -
Didaktisk praxis i waldorfskolan : en didaktisk analys och bildningsteoretisk tolkning av fyra waldorflärares pedagogiska tänkande och förhållningssätt
Tjärnstig, Leif (Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 10.01.2020)In this thesis the aim is to empirically study, analyze and interpret how four Waldorf teachers’ pedagogical thinking, attitudes and didactical conduct comes to expression in their shared discussions about their teaching. An ... -
Digitalisation Meets Home Economics Teachers : A Mixed-Methods Study of the Conditions Related to Finnish Home Economics Teachers’ Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Sundqvist, Karin (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 27.10.2023)In Finnish lower secondary education, home economics (HE) is one of the smallest school subjects in terms of teaching hours, yet, its central task is quite comprehensive. Especially in today’s digitised society, HE has a ... -
Early Numeracy Development : Identifying and Supporting Children at Risk for Mathematical Learning Difficulties
Hellstrand, Heidi (Åbo Akademi University, 07.05.2021)Early numeracy skills are important for later mathematical learning. Already in kindergarten and the early school years there are large individual differences in children’s early numeracy skills. Early identification and ... -
Elevers matematiska utmaningar i slöjd : Ämnesöverskridande lärande via handens arbete
Hjelm, Åsa (Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 14.04.2023)The thesis is based on an interest in mathematical learning in the school subject sloyd in the Swedish elementary school. The students come to the sloyd classroom to make sloyd objects, but most students do not reflect ... -
Equal participation in society? : Perspectives on the opportunities of persons with disabilities in Finland
Hästbacka, Elisabeth (Åbo Akademi University, 22.10.2021)Societal participation for persons with disabilities is central for disability policies globally, and in a Finnish setting, and it is firmly anchored in the welfare state’s commitment to create equal opportunities through ... -
Essays on income and income poverty of Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland
Härtull, Camilla (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 31.08.2018) -
Essays on the Interrelation Between Sickness Allowance, Disability, and Mortality in Finland : National and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives
Klein, Julia (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 01.04.2022)Disability pension is an important pillar of the modern welfare state. As it is almost always a permanent state, it is important to understand risk factors preceding it, as well as the consequences which disability receipt ... -
Far From the Dream : Exploring the Gap in Educational Opportunities for Black Americans
Turner Katz, Heidi (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 08.12.2022)Substantial evidence demonstrates the inequity in educational opportunity that currently exists for Black students in U.S. schools. Combatting this inequity requires an understanding of what educational opportunity looks ... -
Finnish mathematics curriculum materials and teachers´ interaction with them in two cultural-educational contexts
Koljonen, Tuula (Åbo Akademi University, 04.12.2020)Previous research has shown that teachers are central actors in teaching, but the great importance of the use of curriculum materials for teachers has also been highlighted. However, much of the research on curriculum ...