Browsing by Author "Hyle, Aino"

The aim of this master’s thesis was to focus into the discoursive significances of gender and its diversity produced in interviews of four teacher students. This master’s thesis is a part of the national SetSTOP-project (2018-2019). The aim of the project was to recognize the problems linked to equality on the field of teacher education. Definitions of gender and its representations of Judith Butler and Teresa de Lauretis have affected this master’s thesis and its discoursive analysis. I interviewed four teacher students in the end of their studies in this research. As a method, I used theme focused interview attached to stimulative interview. I analyzed the inteviews data with discoursive analysis with the concept’s of representation, paranoid and reparative reading as well as nomadic research. Gender and its variety were signified in my research most of all as change of the world and the future. The skills of handling the variety of gender in the profession of a teacher were represented as poor in my research material. The students longed for a wider understanding of the themes of gender and its variety. In this master’s thesis, I have named discoursive significances linked to the gender that I have discovered from my research material. I have evaluated how they returned to the context of school and teacher education and how the contexts affected the discourses. The results of this study can be utilized in the further re-search and development of equality work.