Browsing by Subject "maksuton kouluruokailu"

The study has been inspired by Finland's 70-year free school meal. The purpose of the study is to find out how free school meal was decided. Which steps and justifications led to the conclusion that in the 1943 parliamentary elections the bill was adopted unanimously. There was also an interest in the discussion on the topic, what kind of debate was born and which parties participated in the debate. Although school catering has been widely studied and the subject has been comprehensively written, these details, which I am trying to find out, have not been studied before. Based on previous studies, it can be assumed that the Social Democratic Party was the most active participant in the debate on the subject. My research is based on the source materials in the archives of the Parliament Library. The material was selected from documents that essentially concern free school meals. I started collecting the material by acquainting the documents of the Parliament in the Parliamentary Library. The addition to the National School Act concerning free school meals was made in 1943, so the documents and records of the parliamentary sessions of that year were selected for my material. Some of these documents raised a few reports and statements that I added to my material. My material consisted of ten official documents. In the analysis, I used typical qualitative research methods of content analysis. I read the documents carefully, after which I shared the arguments under the two main themes. The Social Democratic Party proved to be the most active party in the 1943 parliamentary debate on free meals at schools. The party was also actively engaged in education work for free school food. The need for free meals was mainly due to health reasons, in addition to the economic and social situation in our country. There was not much debate about legislating the law. Only two members of the Social Democratic Party gave their speeches. The explanations were largely in line with the same pattern as other documents.