Browsing by Subject "nuorisotyö"
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(2019)Objectives. The objective of this thesis was to examine and analyse the experiences of youth workers concerning the use of audit and self-assessment model.The focus of this the-sis was to examine how the model was used and described as a method in developing youth work. Evaluation and assessment are part of working life. The expansion of evaluation has happened especially in public sector. In youth work there is not much research about evaluation or assessment practices. One of the objectives of this thesis was to find ideas how to develop assessment practices. Methods. Data was collected by two focus group interviews. There were altogether nine par-ticipants who all work as youth workers in capital region. They all had used audit and self-assessment model and part of them had also been with when the model was developed. Content analysis was used when analysing the data. Results and Conclusions. The attitude towards audit and self-assessment model proved diverse. Youth workers consider the model as useful method when assessing youth work, but they were choosy concerning individual criterion and utilization of audit result were partly in-complete. Audit and self-assessment model was considered beside assessment model also as a tool which helps to clarify the content of youth work.
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(2020)The purpose of this study was to find out what handicrafts and group participation mean for young girls and why the participation of the group is perceived as important. The study also aims to describe what crafts look like in social youth work and what significance it has for girls to be only among girls. Previous research has shown that group activities play a role in strengthening self-knowledge and confidence. Participation in group activities increases the young person's own activity and agency (Ståhlberg, 2019). Previous studies have also shown that making handicrafts has mental and physical effects that increase well-being (Pöllänen, 2017). The aim of the study was to find out the meanings of handicrafts, participation in a group and Girls' House activities for the girls participating in the study. The study was conducted at the Girls' House. It is an open place for all those who define themselves as girls and women. The subject of the study was the Open Handicrafts group, which met at the house once a week. The participants in the group were 14-25 years old. The researcher herself acted as a group supervisor during the study. The research material was collected using ethnographic methods by observing the group, as well as interviewing four girls who visit the house regularly. The interviews were semi-structured thematic interviews and the interviews were transcribed into text. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data with the aim of finding similarities and differences in the themes and meanings of the study. The research reveals that there is a demand and need for a place for girls. Many meanings for being among girls were found. Some of the girls felt impressed with the growth of their own identity and peer support helped them grow into women. For many girls, participating in a handicraft group was more of a daily activity than a hobby. The group was often perceived as more important than making handicrafts. The Girls' house is perceived as a reliable and safe place to get peer support from other girls and women.
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(2014)Online youth work is a relatively new area of research in youth work. Previous studies have shown that internet lives in the world of constant change and technological development proceeds apace. For today's young people internet has always been there. Young people use net for the free-time recreation, information retrieval and interaction. The purpose of this study was to examine youth workers' perceptions of the opportunities and challenges of the use of net in their work. The research questions were: 1) How do the youth workers use the net at work? 2) What kind of problems and opportunities do the youth workers see in the use of the net for developing youth work? 3) How do the youth workers describe online interaction with young people? Research data on the internet usage in municipal youth work in Finland was collected by Verke (Verkkonuorisotyön valtakunnallinen kehittämiskeskus) in the spring 2013. This study analysed open questions of a larger questionnaire survey carried out by Verke. The respondents were youth workers at the capital area. The methods of analysis were the theme analysis and phenomenography. The results highlighted three ways to use the net in youth work: narrow, developing and wide. The analysis of the challenges in using the net revealed three kinds of problems: underdeveloped online practices, technical limitations and the lack of support in the workplace. There were five different ways to interact with young people through the net: communication, working together, guidance, care and availability. These conceptions link the net-based youth work to the post-war time key issues discussed in youth work regarding its task in the society. Based on the results it can be pointed out that the youth workers practices, willingness and readiness to use the net are diverse, which tells about different ways of using the net in youth work. Youth workers also expect to get rules and help in meeting with young people through the net. They also wanted to receive support from their supervisors and organization and to get better equipment.
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(2020)The aim of this study was to explore what kind of agency municipality youth work offers to the youth workers. The study also considers how young people are positioned in the views of youth workers on youth work. The starting point for this study is post-structuralist feminist research and I look at municipality youth work as a discursive practice. Previous research has shown that the therapeutic ethos has spread to support systems and political guidance for young people both in Finland and in other Western countries. Therapeutic ethos has been broadly studied from the perspectives of governmentality, but so far has less attention been paid to research on how people engage its practices. The data consist of five focus group discussions and two workshops, which have been carried out as part of the Youth Work Curriculum project of the City of Helsinki Youth Service. I analysed the data using discursive reading. The results of my research showed how the therapeutic ethos both makes youth workers agency possible and restricts it. The agency of youth workers takes on a contradictory position, at the same time it makes young people’s voluntary action possible, but on the other hand, it aims to guide young people to develop themselves and their emotional skills. By cultivating emotional skills, young people have to operate to meet the current social demands that are demanding people to have good self-esteem, emotional skills and find solutions of themselves. In their views of youth work the youth workers positioned young people in various positions of vulnerability and self-responsibility, where young people have to take responsibility of their choices and confess their own weaknesses.
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