Browsing by Author "Valimaa, Sanna"

Purpose of this research was to find out participant's apprehensions and experiments of the Open University course Work peace to class held during summer 2012. Also the experience of signification and effectivity to their daily working life was studied. With this research was also collected information of the participant's experience of the work peace and increase of the work peace or its change with increase of use for different interaction methods after participating to this course. Earlier researches have shown that people, who have participated to this interaction course, have improved their interaction and emotion skills to create better learning environment to their classes (Talvio 2014). To this research there where 13 people with different back round, who participated to the Work peace to class course. In this group were included teachers, students, assistants and instructors. Qualitative research material was collected from volunteer participants with e-form which included open questions. Volunteers were asked to reflect their own experiences to these questions nine months after participating Work peace course. Collected research material was analyzed by using the qualitative content analyzes. Gathered results shown that people who participate to Work peace to class course mainly told benefit from this course and have afterword focused more on their selves and other interaction impactors on different interaction situations. Participant referred on their answers to Gordon's (2006) interaction models especially on I-message and active listening. Answers shown that on the course introduced interaction methods required training and commitment to work in real life. Results also pointed out that taking these methods on action were experienced challenging. Alternatively on some answers was pointed out that participants felt their working environment and work well-being as well as self-esteem increased by quantity and quality ways after participating to the course.