Browsing by Subject "haptiisit"

While preparing food in home economics classrooms, the students observe environment using their all senses. In learning the touch senses are present. Lahtinen (2008) has developed haptices and social haptic communication. On body the haptices are composed of messages created via touch and motions. Combined with haptices, also auditivity, visuality, the examination of objects and experimenting help gaining information. The research task in this study asks how describing and haptices i.e. contact messages are involved in the learning of a visually impaired student. The task is approached from three aspects. The first is the basic description of a surrounding physical space using speech and haptices to the visually impaired student. The goal is to orient to the learning space. The second aspect comes from the description of the food preparation process via speech and haptices, in which the describer is a teacher. Here we get close to the personal space of the student. The third aspect deals the subject through the student's senses, how a visually impaired student's auditory, visual and haptice are being involved in the process of making food. The study questions were the following 1) In which ways the description and haptices are involved in the visually impaired student's orientation for the learning space? 2) In which ways the description and haptices are involved in the visually impaired student's learning process for the food making? 3) How the different senses are in use in the visually impaired student's food making situations? The study was conducted using qualitative methods. The gathering of the data for the study was done using video recordings. The describers that took part in this study were interpreters and a teacher. The visually impaired students used their senses in the home economics classroom while preparing food. For the support of the data driven content analysis, still images and transcriptions were used. Versatile discussions on the subject with experts supplemented the gathered results. From the research findings I raise the possibilities of the description and haptices as tools for the teaching staff. With these tools the pedagogy of the everyday skills for visually impaired persons can be developed and clarified.