Browsing by Author "Laine-Åström, Heidi"

Tiivistelmä - Referat - Abstract Aims. The content of this work is meeting which is studied by analysing special teacher`s self-bring out significances for the touching from their interviews. The significance of the touch has been confessed from the point of view of the health of brain. The connection to others is significant and confessed from the point of view of the learning. According to studies the touch is a part of the school human interaction. In this study the goal was to examine through the interpretation frames the meanings that special teachers themselves give related to the touch. In the study were examined the touches between teacher and the student. In this study the study task is to increase the understanding of the means to utilise the touch in the changing situations of the school by the special teachers. Methods. The research data was gathered from Koskettava koulu -projects five ready transcribed special teacher’s interviews. They were analyzed by using content analysis to find research units. These units were categorized to four different interpretation frames. Through each of the frames is a possibility to observe the teacher’s manner on speaking from the touch, so called discourses of touch, which build up the picture of the touch in the school. A subject of the study is to find out purposes of the touch given buy teachers and also to find out what kind of reality teachers are building when they talk about touch. Results and conclusions. The majority from discourse of the teacher’s interviews were emphasised the frames of Everyday life and Pupil knowing. In the frame of everyday life were observed discourse’s which processed the touch through steering, regulation, encouraging, the act of consoling and routines. Through the frame of the Pupil knowing were observed discourses of touch in which the teacher’s ability to know the pupil and his/her background, pupils age and the pupil’s initiative was emphasised. Through the frame of danger, the teachers addresses brought out the touch at school from the point of view of restriction, worry which rises from the media, sufficient informing of the supporters and protection skills. In the frame of interaction touch was analysed through discourses of trust and communication. The result of this study cannot be generalized to apply all the special teachers, but they will give a points of view from significance of the touch in the school