Browsing by Subject "yhteisöllisyys"

The objective of this study was to identify what factors in the group play of preschool age children promote or inhibit collaborative learning. Additionally, the study explores what factors would promote or inhibit collaborative learning in group play when an early childhood educator is participating. The study contributes to the understanding of how early childhood educators through their actions can influence the development of collaborative learning. The study is a qualitative study and the research material has been acquired through observing and video recording children's group play in a preschool group’s story-based play mornings, from which ten play episodes have been selected for this study. The research approach is narrative and the group play of children and educators forms stories to be researched. The research material has been processed using theory directing content analysis, and the results of the analysis have been further processed into quantitative format. The study applies primarily Koivula’s (2010) research concerning factors promoting and inhibiting collaborative learning. Additionally, the behaviour of the early childhood educators as a promoter or inhibitor of collaborative learning has been analysed from the viewpoints expressed in the research of Juutinen (2018) and Storli (2013). In this study during the whole preschool year there were factors promoting collaborative learning in the large majority of play episodes and factors inhibiting collaborative learning in over one third of the play episodes. During the autumn there were factors promoting collaborative learning in almost all of the play episodes, while during the spring factors inhibiting collaborative learning were found in half of the play episodes. Factors promoting or inhibiting collaborative learning in the behaviour of the early childhood educators were both found in one third of the play episodes. The early childhood educators acted less as an inhibitor collaborative learning during the autumn than during the spring. The main result of the study is that educators didn’t guide an immigrant child to group play with the other children, but instead guided the child to play only alone with the educator. The study by Juutinen (2018) also noted situations in which educators would have through her actions promoted a sense of togetherness but didn’t make use of these opportunities. According that study as well as by Juutinen (2018) togetherness should be supported so that there would be space in group play for all kinds of members of the group.

Aims. The aim of the research is to find out the significance of handicrafts for the well-being of elderly individuals in the cultural activities of a senior center. In particular, it examines the psychological and social well-being effects of handicrafts as well as the maintenance of motor skills. The research also examines how communal handicraft sessions are experienced and what kinds of crafts are available in the cultural activity handicraft groups. Methods. The research is qualitative research, where the data was collected in the handicraft groups as part of the cultural activities in Kustaankartano Senior Center. Data collection was conducted through group interviews. The group interviews were conversational, and discussions were held within the themes. In addition to the themes, supplementary questions were also used to ensure that the interviews stayed focused on the essential topics of the research. In addition to interviews, the data was collected through observation. Observation supported the data from interviews. A total of 8 individuals took part in the interviews and observation was conducted in the handicraft groups on Tuesdays and Fridays, three times each. The data was analysed using qualitative research content analysis. Results and conclusions. Making handicrafts and taking part in a communal handicraft group were observed to have effects on well-being. Handicrafts are an important part of each group member’s daily life, and their absence was noted to have a negative impact on personal well- being. Crafting is perceived to always bring joy, especially through learning new skills, and experiencing success improves one’s sense of capability, fostering a positive mindset. Crafting was found to be a relaxing aсtivity. Attending group sessions and the opportunity for social interaction it provides were seen as important. Particularly for those living alone felt that the activity was important for their social well-being and that it was an opportunity to support social skills. The handicraft groups in cultural activities offer diverse and unstructured crafting activities. Handicrafts are partial crafts. The groups may have a specific theme or topic related to the crafting method of the session, or requests may come from other departments that may guide the crafting projects.

Aim of the study. Community is a very important topic of discussion. For example, in the schools of Porvoo, community well-being was broad theme of the 2021–2022 semester. The importance of community has been underlined during the coronavirus pandemic, when traditional community means, for example events, have had to be avoided. Previous research has been done relatively little concerning school’s communal operational culture. The aim of this study was to find out what the principals think about community means at schools, how the communal operational culture of the schools appear and how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the sense of community in schools. Methods. The research was implemented by interviewing principals of the Finnish language elementary schools in Porvoo. Six very different types of schools were selected for the study in terms of location, size, and student material. Semi-structured interviews were implemented using a remote connection. The interview focused on three themes: principals´ views on community, the school´s communal operational culture and the school´s community during the coronavirus pandemic. The research material was analysed by using phenomenography analysis. In phonomyography research the analysis is based on the search for meanings and thereby the formation of categories. Results and conclusion. Working together, good cooperation and feeling good in the community were emphasized in describing the community. The principals mentioned cooperation, student participation, common rules and goals and openness as structures that promote community. Community as a value appeared on the background of the school´s operating methods, and community as goal emerged from the values. Communal activities were, for example, common events, trips, and activities. Professional interaction was mainly promoted during the common planning time. The principal´s role from the point of view of community was to be its leader or enabler. The principal also had to be interested in the subject, open minded and appreciative. The cooperation of the school community was aspired promoting, for example, shared leadership. The coronavirus pandemic had no positive effects on community, but it emphasized the value of community and improved teaches´ ICT skills.

Commensality has been studied from many different perspectives and there is broad agreement on its benefits. The use of food waste as part of food aid and participatory forms of activity that differ from the traditional bread lines has, in turn, raised a lot of discussion and divergent opinions. The aim of this study is to review and describe this contradictory field through one case and to include the voice and perspective of food aid recipients. The purpose of this study is to examine the role and importance of eating together (commensality) and food waste in the context of food aid, and how individuals experience them at the Common Table. In addition, this study scrutinized whether the Common table can strengthen community spirit and develop social capital among the customers and volunteers. The study was a qualitative case study and the subject was approached by ethnographic method. The material of the study consisted of participatory observation and the resulting diary record, 57 questionnaire replies, five transcribed individual interviews, and a group interview of nine persons. In addition, three interviews were conducted to create the background information of the case. The material was analyzed by qualitative content analysis. The main result of this work was that eating together and communal meals like lunches offered by the Common table were regarded as desirable ways of organizing food aid. However, the diversity of food aid activities was also seen necessary in order to reach all kinds of people in need. The results showed that the social contacts and connections with other people offered by commensality were important for the visitors. The food aid bag was also important to some of the visitors. Both the lunch eaters and volunteers saw that the Common strengthens communality and thought that using food waste as a resource for food aid is a positive thing. Community-oriented food aid can help to reduce inequality and increase the social capital among those in the community.

Group building creates new possibilities to improve the quality of living and everyday life of individual inhabitants. It adds the competition to the housebuilding and promotes communal operation. The communal living is seen as one alternative because there is an increasing interest in communities. The aim of the study was to clear the ways of action of cohousing projects and their creation process at the planning stage and building stage of projects. The research subjects were two separate cohousing projects in which the building was carried out as non-profit group building. Group building means that the future inhabitants design their private apartments and the common premises, and function as constructors themselves. In the described projects the communal living is carried out with the Nordic model of communal living which is determined by common operation, common premises and the communal organization. The study describes the ways of action of the two projects starting with the planning stage of the block of flats and ending with the beginning of the building. Furthermore, the study examines factors, wishes and expectations affecting the choice of communal living, forming of the community and the creation of communal ways of action. The head concepts of the study are community, sense of communality, confidence, social capital and living. The material consisted of ten (10) theme interviews. The participants in the study represented the future inhabitants from both cohousing projects. The material was collected in spring and autumn 2018 and the results were described with the help of qualitative research methods. It was possible to find features of the case study also in this study. A theme interview was used as an interview method and the results were analyzed by utilizing a content analysis. Social, communal, ecological and economic factors affected the choice of communal living. The choice based on a natural desire to share the life with other people. The creation process of the communal living was determined by the common goals of which the building of the house was the most important. The sense of communality was not left to chance or randomness, but it was consciously built in the ways of action and in the jointly planned premises. Getting acquainted with each other, meeting practices, decision-making process, hearing different point of views and the possibilities to influence the operation were some of the ways of action. The inhabitants hoped that communal living would create safety and versatility of the social life as well as make every-day life easier through neighbourly help, planning and spontaneous doing together and also through shearing information and commodities. It was generally hoped that communal living and group building as a method of construction would become more common on the housing market.

In this thesis, I want to raise awareness, visibility and the importance of R & T play. About R & T play, I discuss in more detail in following aspects; R & T play or aggression, boys' and girls' R & T play and the benefits of R & T play. In addition, I deal briefly with peer relationships and a sense of community. My research questions have been formed on researchers' studies and based on my own experiences. My thesis theoretical framework is a socio-constructivist view of learning, including learning community, as well as building of knowledge sharing and processing it with others. The research questions are: what types of situations R & T play get started? What is the structure of R & T play in different situations? How R & T play, rampage and aggressiveness differ? The theoretical part is composed on the basis of written R & T play research articles. There is no research articles about R & T play in Finnish language. In my research I videotaped twelve, one integrated special group, 4 to 5 year old children's play situations. Research material consisted of video episodes that had a total of 38. Research material I collected in late autumn 2014 and spring 2015. Total video material was 253.91 minutes. About 10 Video-file episodes I did content logs. Content logs I described of molecular- and the molar level. Molar level I analyzed about the script point of view. It is important to allow children's play in different situations and locations. Fun mode has a big impact on what kind of play is chosen and how it is formed. State attracts a certain kind of play and thus the direction of children's ideas of play. Playing is vital and all forms of play, also R & T play, produces joy to children and strengthen their social skills. With the help of the video-episodes, I tried to show that also R & T play is important. However, R & T play is only a tiny part of the whole play-flame. I think adults need "RTP-eyeglasses", see R & T play first and second, allow it. Children with special needs, challenge and / or puzzles play skills, are unable mutual R & T play. There are needed a good playing skills to RTP.

Goals: The purpose of this study is to elucidate the issues that affect the comfort of indivuduals living in a communal senior house. The focus of this study is the communal seniorhouse Kotisatama in Helsinki. My research tasks consist of the following questions: what do the residents think about community living after two years of living experience, and what challenges the residents have experienced in communal housing and what factors affect the overall comfor of a communal senior house. The theoretical part of this thesis who the seniors are, it goes through the stages of aging, and considers the preconditions of a good everyday life in old age. Methods: The study is by nature a so called longitudinal study. I did my Bachelor´s thesis on people who moved to the recently completed Kotisatama in 2016. The aim of the study was to find out the resons why the elderly had chosen a communal senior house as form of housing. In my Master´s thesis, I continued to interview the same people after two years of living experience. The data consists of a group interview conducted at the Senior House Kotisatama, which was attended by five female residents and one couple, and an interview with the architect Kirsti Sivén, who designed Kotisatama senior house. The study was conducted as a qalitative group interview in the spring 2018. The interviews were conducted in the premises of the senior building Kotisatama, and in the architect Sivén´s office. The interviews were audio-recorded and the interview material was transcribed immediately after the interviews. In order to enrich the content of the study, articles on community living, published in the 2014-2018 volumes of the ET-magazine aimed at seniors, were also analysed as a additional data. A total of seventeen of these articles were subjected to a more detailed analysis. This data were analyzed by using qualitative content analysis. Results and conclusions: According to the results, company, safety, exercise opportunities, common hobbies and common eating became the most important issues which increase comfort of living in a communal house. The challenging factors related to living were the heaviness of the kitchen work, the picky and critical attitude towards food and cleaning, as well as the difficulty of making decisions and arguments over parking spaces.

Aim: The aim of this study was to reveal a multi-perspective meanings of craft, bring out feelings which craft making evokes for craft hobbyists and clarify if the craft making increases their well-being. There are very few researches available related to the meanings of craft and craft's impacts to the well-being. The aim of this study was to make the craft hobbyists voice heard and generally emphasize and bring out the importance of creative activity and hobbies. In addition, the aim was to find out in which kind of situations handicrafts have played a significant role in respondents' lives. Based on these thoughts the following two main questions were set for the study: 1) What kind of meanings the students of adult's basic arts education give to the crafts and craft making? 2) How do the handicrafts affect to the well-being of the students of adult's basic arts education? Method: The qualitative data was collected by using an open question from the students of adult's basic arts education in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area during spring 2017. Before sending out the open question via e-mail I presented the topics of my study both in the Basic and Postgraduate Studies group. The recipients of the open question were asked to write a free-form script with the title "I, Craft and well-being". Totally 12 responses were received to the writing request and each of them was at least one page long. I analysed the material separately according to the meaning and wellbeing experience. In the analysis of the meanings I utilized Anna Kouhia's (2012) reference frame of multi-perspectival meanings of crafts and other available theory related to the subject. After that, by utilizing preceding theories, I formed my own reference frame which supported further analysis of the material. As a result, I created my own reference frame of the meanings of the craft. When analysing the well-being I utilized Seligman's theoretical model of happiness (PERMA). Results and conclusions: Based on my study it can be noted that there are several meanings behind craft making. Meanings are very multiple, usually overlapping and sometimes they are even in conflicts with each other. For many people crafts are way to relax which produce happiness day after day and increase well-being. The meanings of crafts are linked tightly to the experiences of well-being. Especially social aspects were emphasized in both categories. In general, the presence of craft in different life situations is dependent on people personalities. Some people use crafts as an important way to relax in difficult life situations whereas other people in the same situation are willing to get rid of all extra issues. Even if sometimes the crafts might be relegated to the background in life, all respondents who participated to the study returned always back to the crafts which illustrates the meaning of crafts as the bringer of well-being as from the point of view of the meanings presented in the study.

Objectives Shared action, interaction, spare time, technology and video games have been the subject of many researches and studies. Combination of these subjects in studies, especially regarding video games, in the field of home economics are sparse. In this study the focus of interest was technology distributed communality and interaction within families. The object of this study was to research the communality and interaction in families that play Pokémon Go-video game together and the significance of this to the family members. Methods The nature of this study was ethnographical. Two different families were studied through observation and interviewing. Both of these families consisted of two parents and two children. In the observation phase a Pokémon Go-video game session of each family was recorded and the material was later analysed and points of interest were brought up. The interviews were implemented as a group interview one family at a time. After this, the interviews were transcribed and analysed and the significances of playing Pokémon Go were brought up. Results and discussion When playing Pokémon Go, the parents and the children were able to share equally a specialist domain, which interested all members of the family. The communality of gaming appeared strong, but scattered. Pokémon Go was played with different, personal gaming accounts, but the members of the family rejoiced achievements within the game together. Other players were encountered when playing, but the interaction appeared to be incidental. The joint gaming was inserted dynamically within everyday events. It was possible, for example, to make a routine trip to a grocery store more compelling. The parents of this study had a positive relation in gaming, which differs from studies that were conducted in earlier decades.

The aim of the study was to examine the significance of community to crafters. Through qualitive research methods, the study analyzed the types of community experienced by crafters and the meanings that community holds for hobbyists engaged in handicrafts. Additionally, the study aimed to investigate how perceived community impacts crafting practices. Crafts have become a popular hobby in contemporary society, where community involvement plays a significant role. The development of media and its increasing popularity has influenced the rise of various crafting-related online communities, community is also experienced in crafting through activities such as crafting courses and smaller groups engaging in grafting together, such as with friends. Previous research has indicated that community plays a significant role in grafting hobbies and influences the crafting practices of enthusiast. The data for the study was collected through an online survey. The research employed a qualitive survey method, gathering data through both structured and open-ended questions. The numerical results from structured questions were utilized to illustrate and describe the phenomenon. The purpose of the open-ended questions was to highlight crafter’s thoughts, attitudes, and experiences regarding the community aspect of crafting. The survey was distributed to two Facebook crafting groups, emailed to members of two crafting associations, displayed in Helsinki Adult Education Centre classrooms and notice boards, as well as posted on the Adult Education Centre’s blog. A total 250 crafting enthusiasts responded to the survey. According to the research findings, community is experienced both through virtual interactions on various social media platforms and through face-to-face interactions in crafting activities. Community involvement is considered significant in handicraft hobbies. It gives practitioners a sense of belonging and strengthens social relationships. Additionally, community involvement helps in generating ideas and implementing handicraft projects, and it also plays a significant role in practitioners sharing advice and tips with each other. Engaging in communal crafting positively impacts social relationships, increases knowledge and learning, and fosters personal growth. It can be concluded that community involvement has a broad impact on both the process of handicraft creation and the outcome.