Browsing by Subject "lapset"
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(2016)Objectives.This study is part of a research project, Taikava. The purpose of the study is to examine how the pedagogy of teaching art can support the collaboration and inclusion of children between the ages of 3–5 years. The aim was to find out how the children are taken into account as individuals. It was also examined how the children's interaction can be supported. In addition, the aim was to find out the interaction situations in which the pedagogy of teaching art is used in kindergarten. It was also studied what kind of changes about the collaboration of the children appeared when the pedagogy of art was used in kindergarten. Methods. This study was conducted as a qualitative research. The material was collected by observing and interviewing. The observation happened in day-care centres in Vantaa. The aim was to observe the interaction between children and adults. In addition, four kindergarten teachers and four art pedagogues were interviewed to this study. The material was analyzed by using material-based analysis. Results and conclusions. The participants felt that children's needs and their co-operation can be supported by using the pedagogy of teaching art. They felt that the presence of an adult, a child-oriented perspective and a positive and supportive atmosphere was important when try to increase children's collaboration. They also valued the fact that adults increase children's participation and encourage them to work together. Art education was carried out as a planned or spontaneous activity in small-group sessions and the everyday interaction in other situations. The first year of Taikava brought some positive changes when it comes to children's collaboration and inclusion. Children's social skills, team spirit and the sense of belonging among others increased. Also the inclusion between children developed. Children made new friends. In addition, the bullying was decreased. It was felt that art became part of the everyday life.
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(2016)In this thesis I examined meanings of gender articulated by children, on the basis of video art pieces. I am interested in the meanings of gender the children would bring up and how this would be related to the wider thematic of gender. Based on earlier research, children have been noted to express normative interpretations of feminist fairy tales which challenge traditional gender positions. This has been seen as a wish to localize in a gender position that is perceived as correct. Children have been noted to challenge the norms in addition to maintaining them. In my thesis I reflect on how the children I interviewed position themselves and the video art pieces related to my research based on gender. My research was supported by post-structural feminist thought and feminist film theory. The essential concepts were gender, discourse, subjectivity and subject position. For my research I interviewed ten children between the ages of 7 and 10. I examined their views on gender thematic on the basis of the video art pieces Punahilkka ja susi (2012), Lasso (2000) and Masa (1999). I applied discourse analysis as a research method. I read material with my focus on gender thematic and, for instance, searched for gender related distinctions and different gender related positions mentioned by the interviewees. I aimed for gender sensitivity while doing research. In my research, gender appeared as a complex discourse. The children expressed many dualistic and normative views on gender. On the other hand, gender related dualisms and norms were also subverted. The children could be seen to simultaneously describe normative discourses and still position themselves or others outside of these discourses. They can be noted to both repeat and resist gender related cultural ways of thinking. The meanings of gender were shown to be persistent but also something containing possibilities for change. Views on gender could be subverted and the concept of gender could be deconstructed during the research process. On the basis of my research, I propose that critical examination of gender with children can contribute to, for example, the deconstruction of normative views on gender. This kind of examination is important because it contributes to the actualization of gender sensitivity, equality and diverse possibilities for being human. Video art pieces can offer a rich conversational basis for thinking about gender.
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(2020)YouTube has become the second popular application among children. The objective of this research was to determine why children spend so much time in YouTube and examine children viewpoint on YouTubes’s commercial collaborations and review it by critical media educational point of view. Also, the goal was to research school’s role as a media educator. Classes of first and second graders from Helsinki metropolitan area participated in the research. The material as collected through themed small-group interviews, which had four bigger themes as YouTube’s using, commercial collaborations, criticality and school’s role. There were a total of 17 participants and six interview groups. The data was categorised and analysed by using the content analysis method. Three different content types were identified from the material and they were YouTube’s using, viewpoint on YouTubes’s commercial collaborations and school’s role as media educator. One extra type was identified in children’s interviews, and that was parent’s role. The reason why children adores YouTube is because it is full of entertainment and the diversity it serves. Most of the children involved in this research has use the application for several years and still use it every day for several hours. Children recognise commercial collaborations, but they don’t really understand what they mean in practice. Criticality against influencer marketing was not present. Children don’t talk about YouTube in school with their teachers and school’s media educations don’t seem to reach YouTube.
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(2022)The aim of this study is to find out the classroom teachers' perceptions of learning motivation, the factors influencing it and their motivation strategies. I use two different theories related to learning motivation as the theoretical background of the research. These are Deci's and Ryan's (2000) Self-Determination Theory and Eccles’ and Wigfield's (2000) Expectation-Theory. According to these theories, an individual's motivation is constructed by various factors. At the heart of self-determination theory are basic psychological needs that, when fulfilled, increase an individual's intrinsic motivation. According to Decin and Ryan (2000), the basic psychological needs of an individual are perceived autonomy, perceived ability, and a sense of belonging. In Eccles and Wigfield's (2000) expectation value theory, an individual's motivation is again seen to be influenced by performance-related expectations and values. This study is a qualitative and its research approach is a case study.The subject of this study was six classroom teachers. Classroom teachers were interviewed individually using themes related to learning motivation. All interviews were recorded and later transcribed. Thematic design was utilized in the analysis of the obtained material. The results of the study showed that the perceptions of learning motivation of the interviewed teachers were very similar to each other. Three different themes were created from the responses of classroom teachers as factors influencing learning motivation. These included psychological factors, social factors, and student alertness. Three different themes were also created from the motivational strategies provided by the teachers themselves. The themes related to the strategies of motivation were the strategies related to working methods, the strategies related to the learning environment and the strategies related to the learning situation. This research does not actually provide entirely new information on the topic I am researching, but it does give voice to the interviewees ’perceptions of learning motivation. I find this important both from a research point of view and from the individual point of view of the interviewees. Some of the interviewees stated that they had never thought deeper about perceptions of learning motivation, because they felt that it was automatized.
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(2018)The purpose of this study was firstly to find out what kinds of fears occur in the literature, what kind of characters are very fearful in the literature and how the people in the literature control their fears. Secondly the investigation concerned fears and talking about fears of primary school aged children and the effect of literature when processing fears. Reading fiction can be helpful in processing difficult things and I believe that it can also be helpful for processing fears. Previous studies have shown that among other things, children are afraid of being left alone, death, victimization, darkness and imaginary creatures. When I decided to do research from the literature that I've chosen, the assumption was that these children's most common fears will be found also in the chosen literature and from interview data. This master's thesis was a two-step research. This was a qualitative research and the methods of analysis in use were content analysis and close reading method. In this two-step research I firstly read the literature specifying passages from the text were there was fear, anxiety or controlling fear. The parts that I found in the literature material that concerned fear, I attached to the results of previous studies. In the second phase I interviewed four primary pupils. First I interviewed these children about the fears they experience. Then I read a short story to the interviewees which I had chosen with the help of the first phase of this research. After reading I interviewed the children again. In the material there were a lot of different kinds of fear, whose target variety was versatile. It seemed that the self-image is strongly linked to how fearful the characters were, and also to how strongly and even hysterically characters were afraid. Fears appeared both adult characters and child characters in the material. The characters of the book tried also to control their fears with different means. This study showed that self-image can effect on individuals fearfulness. In addition it became clear that for characters of the novels it was possible to control fears and that the book characters fears had a target. To the interviewees I chose a short story were there were most fears from one's imagination. Fears which are rising from our imagination are very common among children of the age I interviewed in this study. I found out that children have multifarious fears. For example children are afraid of darkness and imaginary creatures. Reading literature to children had a great effect on handling fears in this research. Conceptualisation can be very difficult to primary pupils. For some children conceptualisation of fear was extremely difficult, for some it was partly possible and for some it was easy.
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(2023)My qualitative interview research examines the music preferences of today's fifth graders. I dealt with the topic by researching the interview group's favorite pieces of music, the basis for music choices, and openness to new music. The material of my research was collected through two group interviews, in which six students of one elementary school in Helsinki were interviewed. During the group interview, the interviewees listened to and rated their preference for four music samples. In addition, the group interview discussed the music that the interviewees usually listen to. The fifth graders I interviewed knew their preferences exactly. According to the results, they listen to a limited number of music styles and quite similar songs. Based on this research, music if fifth graders like it is globally known hit music among young people, and listening to music among the age group is determined especially by the video service TikTok. When talking about the motives of music choices, the music choices of fifth graders seem to be determined by prevailing trends. The fifth graders in the interview group seem to listen either to music that they have heard before or that is close enough to their own preferences, as well as music that is well-known or familiar. The state of alertness brought by the choice of music should also be similar to the right one: you don't want the music to be too calm, harsh, simple or complex. The respondents who took part in my research had a positive attitude towards the genres of music they were more familiar with, and with reservations towards the genres of music they were unfamiliar with.
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(2015)Goals. During the last few decades, the understanding of childhood has changed. Nowadays we see children as active social actors and as specialists of their life. Children's development and learning happen in close interaction with the surrounding society. The goal of my study is to describe, analyse and interpret children's experiences of participation in children's and older adults' club activities in third sector. I studied Terhokerho clubs as children's operational environment of participation. I focused my study on children's experiences of participation and the structural and situational of the operational environment. My goal was to find operational modes, which support children's experiences of participation. I studied participation through children's initiatives and children's experience of belonging to the group. Methods. I studied two different Terhokerho clubs in southern Finland. Terhokerho clubs are part of the Koko Suomi leikkii –program. There were 27 4-12 year-old children and 21 adults participating in the study. I collected my research data by observing action in Terhokerho clubs and by interviewing children. The interviews were the primary source of research data. I analysed my observation notes and transcribed interviews separately with content analysis by classifying and finding themes from the data. Results and conclusions. In my study, participation as children's experience of belonging to the group and as children's possibilities to make initiatives was surprisingly homogenous. Key factors supporting children's experience of participation were fun activities and friends. Those who did not have their own friends with them in the clubs also considered getting new friends an important factor. Children also wanted to get to know the adults in the clubs. Joint activities of children and adults helped create interaction and therefore supported children's experience of participation and possibilities to make initiatives. Adults' action and the structure of the club also made a difference. Common starting and closing moments of the clubs and activities that took into account children's opinions furthered children's possibilities to make initiatives and experience of participation. Humour and warm athmosphere between children and adults were typical in the club activities of children and older adults.
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