Browsing by Author "Hyppönen, Lotta"

The main purpose of this study was to find out the quality of support needing pupils in home economics lessons. Teaching support needing pupils are daily because the amounts of learning disabilities increase continuously. Previous studies show that disorders of brain development or external perpetrators cause learning disabilities. The purpose of this study was to find answers to questions: 1. What kind of support needing pupils are in home economics teaching groups? 2. In what kind of ways home economics teachers take notice of support needing pupils? 3. How do I analyse my own home economics teaching experiences compared to scientific literature? The data for the qualitative study were collected by sending writing invitations to six home economics teachers working in the capital city area. The purpose was to get the comprehension of how teachers support and take notice of support needing pupil, what kind of extra-education they have got and do schools supply extra-resources for meeting support needing pupils. Furthermore I aspire to analyse my own experiences of teaching support needing pupils and what literature has saying about it. According to the main outcome, the most support in home economics lessons needed attention deficit and concentration disorder pupils and they who had linguistic disorders. Mainly for support needing pupils teachers used home economics schoolbooks for special education. In addition they made teaching materials, which were articulated by few words and had demonstrational pictures. However they hoped more easily comprehensible and more pictures consist teaching material for support needing pupils. The education for teaching support needing pupil was low-quality, slight or non-existent. In some cases the schools were offered a special needs assistant to classes. Anyway the help from special needs assistant to home economics classes needed substantial and justifiable reason.