Browsing by Subject "opettajan professionalismi"

Finnish education is noted around the world. Teacherness divides opinions in Finnish context, but still receives lots of academic appreciation. This can be explained with historical reasons, although the recent history points out that the subject is increasingly criticized in public speech and the scale of teacher representations has expanded. Previously teachers are depicted clearly as good or bad teachers. My starting point was to research teacher representation in Finnish TV series Kumman Kaa where the main character presents Swedish language teacher in Upper Level primary school. I focused on researching teacher representation framework of good teacher, teacher's professionalism and representations. The goal was to find out how teacher is represented in comedy and which factors especially formed the unethical teacher's representation to thought-provoking viewer's experience. Research was based on qualitative research and content analysis. I combined analysis theories side by side with the process of data produced repetitive phenomenona. I defined the substantive data as belonging to the school context for transcription which brought up the themes in theories of good teacher. After categorizing and classifying the data I used the classification to different theories of teacherness. The research process consists the phases of content analysis for interview which I adapted to TV series data analyzing. The results are associated to my own subjective values of teaching. In the beginning of the research I interpreted the teacher representations in the good or bad, but during the research process they were characterized more widely. The teacher was depicted as unethical and technocratic actor that inhibited the school's normative atmosphere. The scenes in school context that represented the teacher focused on avoiding the official duties and actions in the workplace. As classifying the phenomena I used my own experience as a teacher and secondly to the theories of good teacher and teacher's professionalism. The conclusion of unethical and selfish person as a teacher processional argues that one factor for comedy in this context is the contrast between good and bad teacher. More research is needed in framework of parody and comedy of Finnish teachers in the media.