Browsing by Subject "narratiivinen analyysi"
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(2018)Objectives. Stable separate systems have been created for the intellectually disabled in our society. Integration in the educational path could act as a channel for social relations between the intellectually disabled and the general populace. I studied the realization of inclusion in the educational path by using the stages of integrativeness as presented by Moberg & Savolainen (2015). The stages are physical, functional, social and societal integrativeness. In my thesis I seek to find out which stages of integrativeness have been realized in the educational path of the mildly intellectually disabled and whether the stages of integrativeness have connections to the subjects present friendships. Methods. My research method was a narrative multi-case study. The subjects of my thesis were five mildly intellectually disabled young adult women. My data collection method was a semi-structured interview. The material was analyzed using a narrative analysis as presented by Polkinghorne (2005). In the narrative analysis the interviews were used to form narrative descriptions of the subjects educational paths. The narratives formed from the educational paths of the subjects were also used to search common factors. Results and conclusions. All research subjects had experienced physical integration and three subjects had also experienced functional integration during their educational path. One research subject had also experienced social integration during her educational path. Another subject had changed from general education to a special school. She had formed social relations in the special school and later in life in hobbies aimed at special education students. Separate systems are a useful resource in creating social relations, but the integration in the general education should be more comprehensive in order to produce social relations between different students.
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(2018)Purposes. Working life has changed because of economic globalization and development of technology. That is why, leadership is nowadays seen in a different way. Traditionally leadership is seen as a way to lead tasks. Now the aim is to lead innovation and transformation in the organization. Leadership and management have been studied a lot but many of the studies focus on how other people see the leader and his/her actions. Therefore, research on leader identity is needed. A leader identity refers to a leader's perception about oneself as a leader. There is only a little research about leader identity. Moreover, studies rarely take all the levels of identity into account. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine leader identities and their construction. The research questions were: 1) What kinds of components are there in leader identities in expert organization? and 2) What types of leader identities can be found? Methods. The research participants of this study were ten managers who all worked in the same expert organization in public sector in Finland. The data of this study was collected by interviewing these ten managers. Thereafter, the collected data was analyzed using both content analysis and narrative analysis. Narrative analysis was used to form type stories. Results and conclusions. Leader identities in the expert organization were strongly built on leaders' role and expertise. Leaders experienced that the public sector organization enables or limits them to implement their own leader identity. Three different leader identity types were constructed: an expert leader, a leader who encourages collaboration and his/her followers' development, and a leader who develops corporate culture and supervisory work in the organization. Leader identity displays strongly both personal and social aspects of identity. Therefore, for the construction of leader identity it is important that the leaders in their organizations find their own ways to lead.
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(2019)This thesis examines children’s citizenship in recent empirical research in the field of child-hood studies. The thesis will examine the questions, themes and theoretical approaches that have framed the studies of children’s citizenship. Childhood studies is a multidisciplinary field and the research concerning children’s citizenship is embedded within multifaceted social and political contexts. Children’s relationship with the citizenship is unsettled. Children are being given many rights, responsibilities and possibilities to participate but at the same time they are excluded from citizenship. Children’s place as becoming citizens has been persistent in societies where especially political citizenship remains a field fully open only for adults. This under-standing frames the recent research of children’s citizenship. The study data consists of 17 research articles that are examining children’s citizenship through empirical data. These articles were reviewed and analysed applying narrative analysis. The study data shows that children’s citizenship is constructed in social, political and historical contexts. Political and legislative structures are the basis of children’s social participation. In in-stitutionalised settings, children’s participation is enabled in participatory activities. These par-ticipatory settings facilitate children’s agency and advocacy but also demonstrate some re-strictions. The approaches of lived citizenship have opened new interpretations of the ways that children enact citizenship. The studied articles show that citizenship is a concept that illumi-nates the aspects of the relationship between children and adults and may generate some under-standing of ethical encounters. Examining the marginal positions of citizenship is helpful in discussing children’s place in society. Citizenship as a concept unfolds the different aspects of inclusion and exclusion in society.
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(2021)Objectives The goal of the research was to examine what role the fat body plays in the working life stories of fat women. Previous studies have shown that the position of fat women in the labour market is weaker than normal-weight or slender women. The healthy, fit, and athletic body has recently become an increasingly important part of success in working life. Fat bodies carry extra weight in working life because the fat body is perceived as morally lower. In addition, a fat body is thought to represent a testimony to a person’s mental abilities. I decided to study fat women’s work-life because several studies have found that women are more vulnerable in work-life than fat men. Methods The research material was collected by interviewing six women. The interviews were carried out as semi-structured theme interviews. The material was analysed by using methods of thematic narrative analysis. Results and conclusions Three typologies were formed based on what role the fat body plays in the working life stories of fat women. In the first typology own fat body was seen as opposite to a person's professional skills. Being fat was a harmful person's career and she had encountered appearance discrimination during job interviews. The second typology was about how accepting your own fat body in part of your professionalism took a lot of identity work. In the third typology fat body was part of professional self-image.
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