Browsing by Subject "restoratiivisuus"
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(2015)Nature has been said to have relaxing effects on human. In today’s world, people’s life takes place mostly indoors so it is essential to seek relaxing effects also indoors. Decorative wood surfaces may bring those relaxing effects of nature to an indoor environment. This research focuses on researching the restorative effect of wooden surfaces through people’s preferences and the abilities of wooden surfaces. In this research, people’s preferences between different wooden surfaces were compared with the use of haptic and visual sensations. All the surfaces were lightly sanded to minimize the effects of pro-cessing and to concentrate merely on the comparison of different materials. The selected surface materials were conifer glulam, birch glulam, birch plywood, conifer plywood, MDF-board (Medium Density Fibreboard) and OSB-board (Oriented Strand Board). The study was divided into three sec-tions: the first section concentrated on people’s preferences towards wooden surfaces only with haptic sensations, the second part included only visual sensations and the third part included both haptic and visual sensations. The third section also included an open question for participants about the potential use of each wood material. Some of the participants also took part in a stress test during the third section. The stress test aimed to examine whether the participants’ heart rate and blood pressure lowered as they experienced the haptic and visual effects of wood material and if there were differ-ences between different materials. In the preference study people were instructed to rate the descriptiveness of different adjectives with all the wooden samples on a scale of 1–7 (1 very little, 7 very much). The three sections of the study made it possible to compare participants’ haptic and visual sensations. The visual sensations were observed to have more dominant effect than haptic sensations on the participants’ preferences. The visually most preferred wood materials were also found the most potential use for. These materials were instructed to be used in places they were seen whereas the less preferred materials were instructed to be used in hidden structures and to remain unseen. Both the heart rate and blood pressure lowered from the start of the test with all the materials except with OSB-board that caused a little rise of heart rate and blood pressure.
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(2016)With the drawing up of the new 2016 curriculum the concept of pupil participation has played a major part in the discussions on care and education. Peer mediation has been seen as a way of enabling participation and increasing communality in schools. The goal of this treatise is to survey the significance of peer mediation in pupil participation and as an activity aimed at increasing communality. Restorative thinking and restorative approach are essential in peer mediation. Hence, the ability of pupils to use these methods is also of interest here. Research questions became: 1. How do the objectives of pupil participation and increasing communality in schools in the basics of the curriculum of basic education (2014) manifest in the experiences of the pupils acting as peer mediators? 2. How do restorative thinking and restorative approach manifest in the peer mediator students' descriptions of the mediation process? This is a qualitative study and the research material was collected by themed interviews. The informants were eight girls who had acted as peer mediators in a primary school in Helsinki in the school year 2014-2015. The data was inspected using content analysis. According to the findings of this study, peer mediation does increase communality. However, its affect on pupil participation depended on the overall operational culture of the school and particularly the actions of individual teachers. If the teachers of the school allowed the pupils to participate, the peer mediator students had strong experiences of participation. However, other pupils had the opposite experience. There were great differences in the restorative thinking of the peer mediator pupils. Some of them applied the restorative approach well, others had a less restorative course of action.
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