Browsing by Subject "partio"
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(2017)Aim and background. This research aims to give a voice for children in the field that studies children's participation. Many studies have primarily used adult's views on participation and studied how this kind of participation is practiced in children's communities. These assumptions often miss children's complex and variable views of participation in their different environments. The aim of this research is to create a better understanding of the phenomenon of children's participation in school and scouting and guiding. By studying two environments this research tries to open children's views about participation as a phenomenon that children experience differently in their diverse social contexts. In this way the phenomenon is studied more widely and attempted to understand it as a part of children's lifes everywhere, not just at school. By creating the phenomenon of participation as children see it aims also to give better understanding about how to evolve children's participation both in school and scouts and also in the educational research. Methods. The research material was collected in the spring of 2017 in semi-structured interviews with five 5th graders who were also scouts. Every interviewee was interviewed twice: once at the scouts meeting place about scouting environment and once at school about school environment. Before the interview the children filled out a short sheet about how they feel about the interview and how much they know about certain concepts (for example local group or student council) they were to be asked about in the interviews. Every interview included a storycrafting assignment aimed to make the social encounter more equal between the researcher and the child. The research was carried out as a phenomenographic analysis. Conclusions. According to the results children experience both scouts and the school environment to be child centered communities, though are in fact separated from the decision-making processes. In both environments children participated in the decision-making only in certain places that were specifically meant for them. These places do not penetrate the decision-making of the communities but only include a part of it. Based on the analysis children saw their role in the decision-making and participating mainly to be sufficient and fair. They did not see that children could nor needed to have a bigger role as members of studied communities. Whereas children had some expectations towards school as an enabler of children's participation in society, scouting was not seen to have a similar role. Scouting was seen as a friendlier environment that allows children more freedom than school or other environments. The results show that there is a need for qualitative research about participation of children also in other environments than schools. Studies about participation of children also need more understanding about how children themselves experience participation so that the results would be more compatible in the light of the theoretical understanding of participation
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(2019)The Guides and Scouts of Finland is the biggest youth organization in Finland. Organization has its own values and ideals. The Scout Method is a way of reaching the Educational Goals of Scouting and the goal is to support children’s growth and also to notice that everyone has their own characteristics. The vision of the Guides and Scouts of Finland for years 2019-2020 is “Everyone builds a better world - Guiding and Scouting is the most influential youth movement in Finland”. The Guides and Scouts of Finland have named disabled scouts as “sisupartio-laiset”. Nowadays disabled scouts are named as scouts that has special needs, but still “sisupar-tio” is the prevalent term to describe disabled people in the Guiding and Scouting. In this study the focus is how scouts with special needs speak about their own place as scouts and how they are seeing their capabilities to be part of the Scouting. I have interviewed five scouts with special needs. I used the theme interview as a method of in-terview. In this study I use discourse analysis as a method to analyze. To analyze the speak of the interviewee about their opinions of their place and capabilities in Scouts and to use dis-course analysis I can examine the dominant discourses that are affecting to the experiences of the disabled scouts about their own place and own capabilities. As an analytical concept I am using marginality and subjectification and also I rest my notions about disability to the social model of disability. It seemed that scouts with special need took the subjectification of a “sisupartiolainen” as a self-evident and took the category “sisupartio” as a given position. I understand that this happens because it also seemed that subjectification of a “sisupartiolainen” was something that has to be adopted that it was even possible to work in the Scouts as disabled. On the other hand the scouts with special needs questioned the discourses that are related to disablement and their po-sitioning to the marginal group of the Scouts. The discursive field of Scouts in my study seemed to be enabling and limiting factor. Limiting because it seemed that scouts with special need were understood as a common group because of the naming as “sisupartio” and that limited some of the scouts possibilities to act in the Scouts. Also society´s physical boundaries and lack of re-courses seemed to be restrictive when it comes to the possibilities to be part as an equal mem-ber of the Scouts. In the study I was able to see that with the discursive field of Scouts, the scouts with special needs were able to build their own agency in their speak and in the light of this the procedures, ideals and practices of the guiding and scouting seemed to build the their agency as a constructive way. I suggested that the Guides and Scouts of Finland should draw at-tention what can be done to person when some group is named and categorized.
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