Browsing by Subject "positiivisen pedagogiikan menetelmät"

Aims. This thesis strives to investigate how teachers perceive positive pedagogy and what practices teachers typically employ. In this master’s thesis the aim is to resolve how pre-school teachers understand positive pedagogy and what kind of perceptions they associate to it. I am also interested in knowing what kind of resources teachers must have to be able to practice positive pedagogy methods. In the light of previous studies, teachers associate many positive effects with the implementation of positive pedagogy methods and saw their role as a central for example, in creating positive and encouraging atmosphere. Methods. In this study six preschool teachers, four class teachers, special education teach-er, and resource teacher participated. Target groups were partly selected randomly trough a message via Facebook group called ‘’alakoulun aarreaitta’’. Part of the participants were al-ready familiar with the research project. The data was collected through theme interviews which were performed face to face or via Zoom. Interview data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Some answers from the interviews were included as citations withing the research results to enrich and illustrate the results. Results and conclusions. Teachers experienced and described that positive pedagogy methods have several positive benefits to individual’s and to the whole classroom. The results showed that the teachers highlighted how they were able to influence the classroom atmosphere, good interaction relationship with students, and also strengthen individual’s self-image and agency by using positive pedagogy methods.