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(2021)Tiivistelmä - Referat - Abstract The purpose of this master’s thesis is to find out views of young adults attending workshop activities. This research intends to find out how school experiences have affected their lives and their further education and employment. This research is based on the earlier known connection between school dropout and the process of social exclusion and aims to find out more on the possible role of special education in this process. The research group was chosen to include young adults who attend workshop activities because it is very likely that they have had risk factors for social exclusion present in their lives. The research material consisted of seven theme interviews that were analysed by using theme analysis. The interviews included conversation about school motivation, teachers, further education and choosing a profession, substance abuse, the significance of friends and family and learning difficulties. The informants were 21 to 29 years old and they all attended workshop activities in a quite small town in southern Finland. The informants had ended up in workshop activities due to unfinished second-degree education or long-term unemployment. The research showed that both school and free time related factors had had an influence on the informants’ lives. Especially learning difficulties, social support, substance abuse, bullying experiences at school, teachers, the sense of not belonging to school and friends turned out to be significant factors. All together the informants didn’t seem to think school experiences were the most important factors in life, but the research material still showed signs of school being able to influence the life paths of youngsters by at least giving some directions for the road.
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(2009)Workshops can be seen as a one kind of occupational model in the field of the social employing. The objective of social employing is to support the employment of those persons who are in a weak labour market position and to maintain their ability to function. The objectives of the workshops, which are offering work experience and learning of life management, maintain the same goal as social employment. Workshop services in Finland are relatively little scientifically studied in spite of their fairly long history. The workshop as a concept is still quite sparsely defined and also an unknown occupational model to the large part of people. The starting point for this study was to clarify what the workshops are like, what the services are like and how learning can be seen from the point of view of the workshop services. The objective of this study was to analyse how the apprentices experience the workshop services as well as learning in the workshops and thus describe how the workshops are shaped at the youth workshops. According to earlier studies the apprentices have experienced the workshops as useful periods in their lives and also they believe that other people in society appreciate the experience that apprentices have been received from the workshops. This study can be described as a qualitative study. Its methodological foundation is in phenomenology and especially in existential phenomenology. The research material consisted of seven individual interviews and two group interviews. In the group interviews five apprentices were those who had also participated in the individual interviews and one apprentice who did not participate. The interviewees' ages were between 17-22 years. The interviews were carried out as semi-structured interviews. The method which was utilised in the analysis of the research material is developed by Juha Perttula (2000). This analyse method is based on existential phenomenology. The apprentices considered that significant experiences in the workshop services were the entry to the workshop, the form of activity of the workshop, workshop community, the achieving of life management and work experience, the understanding of the significance of the education and the planning of the future. Regarding to learning the attitude, on-the-job learning, the importance of the mentors, the new information and new skills achieved were significant experiences at the workshop for the apprentices. The apprentices' experiences reflect well the achievement of the objectives which are set for the workshop services. Results of this study are also compatible to the results of earlier studies of apprentices' positive experience of the workshop services. The results can be utilised in developing the workshop services to offer more versatile experiences than before and to improve learning conditions on the workshops. The arranging of the on-the-job learning and the significance of the actions of mentors should also be noticed.
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(2017)In a tightening economic situation it has become more difficult to find work or study place. This can create a threat that leads to the danger that young people are getting socially excluded from education and working life. Social exclusion has brought up a great concern in Finland. Youth guarantee is been used to prevent social exclusion and to improve adolescents' possibilities to have a degree after the basic education and be employed. One of the tools to prevent social exclusion is Youth guarantee which raises workshop activities that aim to support adolescents' life management skills, strengthening their involvement and preventing social exclusion. In the previous workshop studies it has been brought up that it would be important to study workshop activities in qualitative measures to get the voices of the people being in the risk of social exclusion to be heard. This study examines the way the young people that work in workshop in Tampere under the Youths start- project talk and how they give meanings to being part of the society, participation and how are they relating to the work shop activity. This study analyzed two group interview materials that are collected in Youth start workshops. There were eight young people that participated to this study. The material was analyzed using discursive analysis methods. The discursive analysis is built to the assumption of being context related, assumption of meanings being built using the language, assumption that several lateral discursios exist and to the assumption that use of the language has causes and it socially constructs the reality. In this research four repertoires were analyzed from the participants' discourses. These were being part of the society, participation, social exclusion and workshop repertoires. The tightening competition situation from the work and studying places showed up as a factor that in the adolescents' discourses caused insecurity and repetitive disappointment that had negative influence to their self-esteem and these factors can lead to even faster social exclusion. The Workshop appeared as a safe place, kind of like a second home where it was easy to come. Working in a workshop brought meaningful things to do and building blocks to build self-esteem and recover courage. Outside of the workshop social inclusion of the people going there it was considered to be shameful and even stigmatizing. Because of this factor it is important that the image of the workshop can be improved. In the light of this study it is important to improve the participation and feeling social inclusion of the surrounding world. The adolescents need to have real power and responsibility to decide and influence the matters that concern them in the workshop activities.
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