Katri Komulainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 328264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katri Komulainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katri |
| FAMILY NAME | Komulainen |
| SIGNATURE | KOMULAINEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9337-5052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Young and/but successful
This article advances critical theoretical and methodological approaches to employability. From the perspectives of neoliberal governmentality and positioning analysis, we investigate graduate employability as a process of creating value for the self in the labour markets. The study analyses how young Finnish business graduates (n = 19) who work in business organisations perform themselves as valuable labouring subjects in their interviews. Based…
Individualizing the burnout problem
This discourse analytical study explores how health professionals (HPs) construct burnout as a form of mental distress in the context of Finnish burnout rehabilitation framed with a particular rehabilitation ethos. Burnout is a fuzzy concept and lacks a disease status. Therefore, it calls for context-specific definition and justification. By highlighting the socially and interactionally produced character of categories of mental distress, the stu…
Aged and gendered master narratives on entrepreneurship in Finnish higher education
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of master narratives related to age, gender and entrepreneurship in the context of entrepreneurship education (EE) in Finnish higher education (HE). This is important as master narratives create and limit our understanding of entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The data comprises 30 student interviews generated in one multidisciplinary Finnish university. The data were ana…
Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course
The methodological article explores the process by which identity rupture generated by work-related burnout is encountered and managed over time. The article presents an in-depth case study based on follow-up interviews with a woman in her sixties. The study attempts to discover what kinds of continuities and changes in meaning making patterns are included in the burnout process and how these meaning making patterns are used to perform and negoti…
Being stable and getting along with others
The aim of this study was to examine what sort of ability expectations university students have about the requirements of working life, and how the perception of these expectations relate to students’ perceptions of their own employability. The participants comprised a sample of students (N = 1819) from two Finnish universities, representing diverse fields of study. They were asked to describe themselves according to a set of abilities and to the…
The moral orders of work and health
Being on sick leave due to burnout entails a high level of accountability. Persons suffering from burnout do not automatically play a legitimate sick role because of the fuzziness of the burnout concept. In addition, while being on sick leave, they are in a non-working position, which is against the ideals of work-centred society. Therefore, they are required to explain their 'deviant' situation. Drawing on the interview data, the article explore…
Finnish parents’ attitudes toward entrepreneurship education
Social representations of educability in Finland
On entrepreneurship, in a different voice? Finnish entrepreneurship education and pupils’ critical narratives of the entrepreneur
This study set out to explore the narratives of entrepreneurship that 15–16-year-old pupils in their last grade of comprehensive school produced in the Finnish annual writing competition Good Enterprise! We focused on narratives that can be categorized as tragedies, satires, comedies, and crime stories (N = 219). In these stories, the pupils challenge the political ideal of the risk-taking entrepreneur by arguing for sustainable development and s…
Bringing up global or local citizens
The article explores the conditions of entrepreneurship education in Finnish schools from the perspective of the school’s tradition of national and territorial socialization and the new aim of educating European and global citizens. Entrepreneurship education presents a new challenge for the school system with regard to territorial socialization and the construction of the spatial self. The theme is discussed by using data consisting of Finnish p…
A picture is worth a thousand words
Risk‐taking abilities for everyone? Finnish entrepreneurship education and the enterprising selves imagined by pupils
This article examines the spread of the neo‐liberal educational policy in Finnish schools by considering entrepreneurship education. We examined the kinds of gendered and classed enterprising selves that were narrated in the Finnish writing competition Good Enterprise! written by pupils in the 9th grade of comprehensive school. In their narratives of enterprising selves, the pupils constructed the middle‐class version of the self, where the perso…
Constructions of nation, family and gender
The article investigates the collective nature of stories of war and the constructions of nationality embedded in these narratives. The material comes from a larger study, `Gender and Nationality in the Finnish Language Secondary School', and consists of 17 life stories of women who studied in secondary school in eastern Finland between 1927 and 1970. For the women, nationality — being a Finn — appears as a self-evident context of living, but sto…
The Past is Difference - The Difference is Past
Education has been the main channel through which Finnish women have attempted to achieve the status of an individual. But what has the story of women's individualisation been like? The article examines women's educational life stories - 'independence narratives' - and highlights the gendered interpretations women have made of their lives. The gender difference in these stories is a temporal difference within the self: through the rhetorical cons…
A course of one's own
Education has been the main channel through which Finnish women have attempted to achieve the status of ''the individual''. But what has the story of women's individualization been like? Can women seek individual status specifically as women? This article examines how women use biographical work in their educational life stories to relate to their own gender. The women used various constructions the self as vehicles for processing their views of …
Risk‐taking abilities for everyone? Finnish entrepreneurship education and the enterprising selves imagined by pupils
This article examines the spread of the neo‐liberal educational policy in Finnish schools by considering entrepreneurship education. We examined the kinds of gendered and classed enterprising selves that were narrated in the Finnish writing competition Good Enterprise! written by pupils in the 9th grade of comprehensive school. In their narratives of enterprising selves, the pupils constructed the middle‐class version of the self, where the perso…
The moral orders of work and health
Being on sick leave due to burnout entails a high level of accountability. Persons suffering from burnout do not automatically play a legitimate sick role because of the fuzziness of the burnout concept. In addition, while being on sick leave, they are in a non-working position, which is against the ideals of work-centred society. Therefore, they are required to explain their 'deviant' situation. Drawing on the interview data, the article explore…
A course of one's own
Education has been the main channel through which Finnish women have attempted to achieve the status of ''the individual''. But what has the story of women's individualization been like? Can women seek individual status specifically as women? This article examines how women use biographical work in their educational life stories to relate to their own gender. The women used various constructions the self as vehicles for processing their views of …
Social representations of educability in Finland
Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course
The methodological article explores the process by which identity rupture generated by work-related burnout is encountered and managed over time. The article presents an in-depth case study based on follow-up interviews with a woman in her sixties. The study attempts to discover what kinds of continuities and changes in meaning making patterns are included in the burnout process and how these meaning making patterns are used to perform and negoti…
Constructions of nation, family and gender
The article investigates the collective nature of stories of war and the constructions of nationality embedded in these narratives. The material comes from a larger study, `Gender and Nationality in the Finnish Language Secondary School', and consists of 17 life stories of women who studied in secondary school in eastern Finland between 1927 and 1970. For the women, nationality — being a Finn — appears as a self-evident context of living, but sto…
The Past is Difference - The Difference is Past
Education has been the main channel through which Finnish women have attempted to achieve the status of an individual. But what has the story of women's individualisation been like? The article examines women's educational life stories - 'independence narratives' - and highlights the gendered interpretations women have made of their lives. The gender difference in these stories is a temporal difference within the self: through the rhetorical cons…
Being stable and getting along with others
The aim of this study was to examine what sort of ability expectations university students have about the requirements of working life, and how the perception of these expectations relate to students’ perceptions of their own employability. The participants comprised a sample of students (N = 1819) from two Finnish universities, representing diverse fields of study. They were asked to describe themselves according to a set of abilities and to the…
Bringing up global or local citizens
The article explores the conditions of entrepreneurship education in Finnish schools from the perspective of the school’s tradition of national and territorial socialization and the new aim of educating European and global citizens. Entrepreneurship education presents a new challenge for the school system with regard to territorial socialization and the construction of the spatial self. The theme is discussed by using data consisting of Finnish p…
Young and/but successful
This article advances critical theoretical and methodological approaches to employability. From the perspectives of neoliberal governmentality and positioning analysis, we investigate graduate employability as a process of creating value for the self in the labour markets. The study analyses how young Finnish business graduates (n = 19) who work in business organisations perform themselves as valuable labouring subjects in their interviews. Based…
A picture is worth a thousand words
A course of one's own
Education has been the main channel through which Finnish women have attempted to achieve the status of ''the individual''. But what has the story of women's individualization been like? Can women seek individual status specifically as women? This article examines how women use biographical work in their educational life stories to relate to their own gender. The women used various constructions the self as vehicles for processing their views of …
The Past is Difference - The Difference is Past
Education has been the main channel through which Finnish women have attempted to achieve the status of an individual. But what has the story of women's individualisation been like? The article examines women's educational life stories - 'independence narratives' - and highlights the gendered interpretations women have made of their lives. The gender difference in these stories is a temporal difference within the self: through the rhetorical cons…
Constructions of nation, family and gender
The article investigates the collective nature of stories of war and the constructions of nationality embedded in these narratives. The material comes from a larger study, `Gender and Nationality in the Finnish Language Secondary School', and consists of 17 life stories of women who studied in secondary school in eastern Finland between 1927 and 1970. For the women, nationality — being a Finn — appears as a self-evident context of living, but sto…
Risk‐taking abilities for everyone? Finnish entrepreneurship education and the enterprising selves imagined by pupils
This article examines the spread of the neo‐liberal educational policy in Finnish schools by considering entrepreneurship education. We examined the kinds of gendered and classed enterprising selves that were narrated in the Finnish writing competition Good Enterprise! written by pupils in the 9th grade of comprehensive school. In their narratives of enterprising selves, the pupils constructed the middle‐class version of the self, where the perso…
A picture is worth a thousand words
Bringing up global or local citizens
The article explores the conditions of entrepreneurship education in Finnish schools from the perspective of the school’s tradition of national and territorial socialization and the new aim of educating European and global citizens. Entrepreneurship education presents a new challenge for the school system with regard to territorial socialization and the construction of the spatial self. The theme is discussed by using data consisting of Finnish p…
Social representations of educability in Finland
On entrepreneurship, in a different voice? Finnish entrepreneurship education and pupils’ critical narratives of the entrepreneur
This study set out to explore the narratives of entrepreneurship that 15–16-year-old pupils in their last grade of comprehensive school produced in the Finnish annual writing competition Good Enterprise! We focused on narratives that can be categorized as tragedies, satires, comedies, and crime stories (N = 219). In these stories, the pupils challenge the political ideal of the risk-taking entrepreneur by arguing for sustainable development and s…
Finnish parents’ attitudes toward entrepreneurship education
Being stable and getting along with others
The aim of this study was to examine what sort of ability expectations university students have about the requirements of working life, and how the perception of these expectations relate to students’ perceptions of their own employability. The participants comprised a sample of students (N = 1819) from two Finnish universities, representing diverse fields of study. They were asked to describe themselves according to a set of abilities and to the…
The moral orders of work and health
Being on sick leave due to burnout entails a high level of accountability. Persons suffering from burnout do not automatically play a legitimate sick role because of the fuzziness of the burnout concept. In addition, while being on sick leave, they are in a non-working position, which is against the ideals of work-centred society. Therefore, they are required to explain their 'deviant' situation. Drawing on the interview data, the article explore…
Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course
The methodological article explores the process by which identity rupture generated by work-related burnout is encountered and managed over time. The article presents an in-depth case study based on follow-up interviews with a woman in her sixties. The study attempts to discover what kinds of continuities and changes in meaning making patterns are included in the burnout process and how these meaning making patterns are used to perform and negoti…
Aged and gendered master narratives on entrepreneurship in Finnish higher education
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of master narratives related to age, gender and entrepreneurship in the context of entrepreneurship education (EE) in Finnish higher education (HE). This is important as master narratives create and limit our understanding of entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The data comprises 30 student interviews generated in one multidisciplinary Finnish university. The data were ana…
Young and/but successful
This article advances critical theoretical and methodological approaches to employability. From the perspectives of neoliberal governmentality and positioning analysis, we investigate graduate employability as a process of creating value for the self in the labour markets. The study analyses how young Finnish business graduates (n = 19) who work in business organisations perform themselves as valuable labouring subjects in their interviews. Based…
Individualizing the burnout problem
This discourse analytical study explores how health professionals (HPs) construct burnout as a form of mental distress in the context of Finnish burnout rehabilitation framed with a particular rehabilitation ethos. Burnout is a fuzzy concept and lacks a disease status. Therefore, it calls for context-specific definition and justification. By highlighting the socially and interactionally produced character of categories of mental distress, the stu…
Political science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Entrepreneurship (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)