Kaarina Määttä
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94594 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kaarina Määttä |
| PRENOMES | Kaarina |
| SOBRENOME | Määttä |
| ASSINATURA | MÄÄTTÄ K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lapland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5658-7021 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Is non-formal learning a solution to enhance immigrant children's empowerment in northern Finnish communities
The increasing diversity in northern Finland calls for innovative ways to support the development of immigrant children’s socio-cultural skills so that they may improve their integration and active participation in Finnish society. Validating their competencies and recognising their academic and soft skills within non-formal learning environments can ease this integration and participation outside of school hours. This study explored special meas…
Nine Contradictory Observations About Girls’ and Boys’ Upbringing and Education – The Strength-Based Approach as the Way to Eliminate the Gender Gap
Several studies in the 1970s and 1980s have showed how girls’ courage or willingness to bring out their talents and strengths at school is hindered by many factors. The self-esteem of girls who are known to be talented decreases especially during their adolescence. This phenomenon is connected to girls’ ability to notice conflicting expectations in their environment. They realize that they are expected to possess certain traditional female charac…
How Do Students Describe Their Study Processes in the Competence-Based Vocational Special Education Teacher Training
The competence-based approach has entered Finnish education after the recent reform of vocational education. Although there is plenty of research nationally and internationally about the idea of competence-based education, the student perspective has remained in the shadow. This research focused on vocational special education teacher students’ experiences of the competence-based education. They started at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences …
Love-Based leadership in early childhood education
A day care center is not just any place where children can spend their day while parents are at work. How to ensure that children have good childhood experiences and how to sup-port their positive development from the very beginning of their educational career? In this study, we introduce the concept of love-based leadership and discuss its role and implemen-tation in early education. Love-based leadership in early education is a method that rene…
It goes beyond the fundamentals of sex and education.” Analysis on the online commenting on the curriculum reform in Ontario
School-based sex education is a sensitive topic that divides opinions. This research focuses on the 2015 curriculum reform on sex education in Ontario and especially on the public online commenting on it. It was considered an interesting example of how educational reforms arouse debate and how the media can influence opinions. The data comprises comments (N = 544, of which 453 were included in the analysis) on a news article published by the Cana…
Online console game club as a resource a case study of the perceived meaning of club membership
What kind of community an online console game club is? Console game playing has often been viewed as having only negative influence on young people’s lives. In this research, a group of gamers (N = 8) was investigated. They were young adults who played the National Hockey League (NHL) console game regularly. The qualitative case study focused on finding out what made the club meaningful in the club members’ opinions and how they describe activiti…
Everyone needs love’ – an interview study about perceptions of love in people with intellectual disability (ID)
How do people with intellectual disability (ID) perceive love and its role in their lives? The purpose of this study was to give voice to people with ID themselves and provide information about their needs for love. The study analysed how seven Finnish young adults with mild ID (5 women and 2 men) aged between 18 and 31 years described love and the meaning of love in their lives in semi-structured, qualitative theme interviews. The analysis was t…
What are Finnish university students' motives for participating in student activism
Active citizenship is a goal in which universities want to invest: student activism has shown to increase students' skills and support positive study atmosphere. The purpose of this study was to analyse university students' motives for participating in student activism in order to find out ways of enhancing the development of active citizenship in students. This was a narrative study in which 47 student activists of Finnish university student act…
I am no longer alone – How do university students perceive the possibilities of social media
An increasing number of people have become users of social media, mostly looking for social contacts and networking. But what kind of social capital do social networking services (SNSs) provide? University students ’ (N 90) experiences of and opinions on social media were studied through a semi-structured questionnaire. The following research questions were set for this study: (1) What kinds of benefits do university students perceive in the usag…
Language Immersion Tepee” as a Facilitator of Sámi Language Learning
Due to the history of assimilation, power relations, and their sociolinguistic situation, the Sámi languages are categorized as endangered. The position of the Sámi languages in Sámi education is reviewed, and language immersion as a teaching method and as a means of language maintenance is discussed. Sámi language learning is described through the theoretical model of a “Language Immersion Tepee,” adapted from an idea in which the pupil advances…
Teacher Education in Finland during the War Years, 1939–45
The Second World War profoundly affected the school system in Finland that already functioned as the seedbed for the national ideology; the Finnish teacher training colleges were temporarily closed during the years 1939–45, and several college buildings served as stationary war hospitals. This article describes the operation of the teacher training college of Tornio in northern Finland and student teachers’ and teachers’ lives during the war year…
Many Faces of Love
What do we actually talk about when we talk about love? Research on love and emotions has been met with suspicion although people live in a network of relationships from birth to death, and the ability to build and maintain relationships is an important strength. This book provides a comprehensive research-based analysis of love in human life: romantic love and its ups and downs, and the fascination of love, the combination of work and family, th…
“For Better and for Worse, or Until …”
Feelings of guilt that are related to divorce are little studied. In this study, moral guilt related to divorce was analyzed along with divorcees' feelings of guilt and the ways of making the other feel guilty. The focus is especially on the guilt related to the spouse and children. Divorcees' feelings of guilt were studied through a questionnaire mailed to participants in spring 2008: The data included 535 questionnaires (224 from men and 311 fr…
Changes in Teacher Profession in Finland during the War Years 1939-1945
What happened in the Finnish society affected Finnish teacher training significantly. Teacher training was seen as the means and channel of influencing the whole nation. This study makes an interesting example of how macro level processes and procedures influence on a singular profession and how it was performed in practice. Simultaneously, it functions as an example of a national importance of professions. This study focused on teacher training …
Childhood in the shadow of war
This study was focused on war-time childhood. The target period covers the war years 1939–1945 and the years of post-war reconstruction. The research was based on memories of 13 participants who lived in the countryside in northern Finland during the Second World War. The purpose of the study was to find out what children's everyday life was like during the war. According to the results, children did play regardless of the war situation. Children…
Changing Identities
In the 1950s, marriage represented a traditional and typical form of an intimate relationship and family. Now, divorces, blended families, and single life have become commonplace. In this article, divorcees' experiences on the possibility of having or starting a new relationship are dissected. What kinds of expectations and challenges are involved? How do they see their chance of succeeding in the new relationship? This was a qualitative study, a…
From fear of eating to appetite for life
The aim of this research is to describe ex-anorectic patients' relationship with food and eating. Why and how do young women develop a twisted idea of eating and food? How do they describe their relationship with food and eating? The causes of anorexia are collected from the narratives of 11 Finnish women who have survived their own anorexic trip as winners. Anorexia is a serious psychiatric condition that can lead to death at its worst. The caus…
What Is the Future of Village Schools? A Case Study on the Life Cycle of a School in Northern Finland
This micro-historical research reveals what happened in the village of Aapajarvi located in a sparsely populated municipality in northern Finland since the school was established and since it disappeared. In this article, the following questions are studied: How was it possible to establish and build an elementary school in a remote and roadless village in poor circumstances at the time of post-war reconstruction and how did the situation of the …
Alone and in a group
The aim of this research was to study the social interaction and play of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ways an adult can support them. Eleven groups of Finnish children with ASD (N = 45) were observed in organized and free play situations and documented with video and written notes. The focus asks: How do autistic children play? Attention is paid to the potential communication and resources of children with ASD, and thus the pu…
The Successful Combination of Work and Family in Finland
This article focuses on the success at work from the family's point of view. This article is based on two researches in Finland: one that concentrated on marital success (N= 342 married couples) and the other one in which the employees of the year (N=8) described their solutions to combine work and family successfully. By uniting these two perspectives, the purpose is to give a unique description of how both the family and work roles can be combi…
Obsessed with the Doctoral Theses
Can the Facilitated Communication Method Support Autistic People, According to Facilitators' Opinions
Can the Facilitated Communication Method Support Autistic People, According to Facilitators' Opinions?AAC practitioners and researchers have developed non-speech communication strategies and technology greatly during the past 30 years. This article concentrates on one of them: the Facilitated Communication Method. The aim of this research is to describe the facilitated communication method in the light of the perceptions and experiences of facili…
The Throes and Relief of Divorce
A divorce is a series of victories and losses. Everyone's lives get better if a marriage eroded by painful disagreements is dissolved. Usually, both spouses go through purgatory with various trials along their divorce. The aim of this article is to analyze what kinds of feelings a divorce excites as described by divorcees (N = 74). What emotions do the divorcees emphasize in their divorce experience? The data were collected in the form of informa…
Emerging Adulthood in the Historical Life-story Study of Finnish Writer Arvi Järventaus in Lapland
The aim of this article is to consider the modern theories of Cultural Approach and Emerging Adulthood, developed by Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, in qualitative history-oriented research. This article looks at the biographic study of a Finnish author’s and clergyman’s first forty years of life in north Finland during 1883-1923. The object person is Arvi Järventaus, the first storyteller in Finnish Lapland. The research questions, bearing the cultur…
What Was Said? A Discourse Analysis of a Famous Finnish Radio Journalist’s Virtuous Monologues
The aim of this article is to study a well-known radio journalist and media-educator Hannu Taanila’s radio programs in a state-owned Finnish Broadcasting Company. Hannu Taanila is an influential media person whose radio programs were famous and popular. This article concentrates on Hannu Taanila’s radio monologues. The research data includes 16 radio programs broadcast in 2005. Each program lasted for 45 minutes and all of them were recorded, tra…
Teacher Education in Finland during the War Years, 1939–45
The Second World War profoundly affected the school system in Finland that already functioned as the seedbed for the national ideology; the Finnish teacher training colleges were temporarily closed during the years 1939–45, and several college buildings served as stationary war hospitals. This article describes the operation of the teacher training college of Tornio in northern Finland and student teachers’ and teachers’ lives during the war year…
Language Immersion Tepee” as a Facilitator of Sámi Language Learning
Due to the history of assimilation, power relations, and their sociolinguistic situation, the Sámi languages are categorized as endangered. The position of the Sámi languages in Sámi education is reviewed, and language immersion as a teaching method and as a means of language maintenance is discussed. Sámi language learning is described through the theoretical model of a “Language Immersion Tepee,” adapted from an idea in which the pupil advances…
Childhood in the shadow of war
This study was focused on war-time childhood. The target period covers the war years 1939–1945 and the years of post-war reconstruction. The research was based on memories of 13 participants who lived in the countryside in northern Finland during the Second World War. The purpose of the study was to find out what children's everyday life was like during the war. According to the results, children did play regardless of the war situation. Children…
What Is the Future of Village Schools? A Case Study on the Life Cycle of a School in Northern Finland
This micro-historical research reveals what happened in the village of Aapajarvi located in a sparsely populated municipality in northern Finland since the school was established and since it disappeared. In this article, the following questions are studied: How was it possible to establish and build an elementary school in a remote and roadless village in poor circumstances at the time of post-war reconstruction and how did the situation of the …
Alone and in a group
The aim of this research was to study the social interaction and play of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ways an adult can support them. Eleven groups of Finnish children with ASD (N = 45) were observed in organized and free play situations and documented with video and written notes. The focus asks: How do autistic children play? Attention is paid to the potential communication and resources of children with ASD, and thus the pu…
Obsessed with the Doctoral Theses
Can the Facilitated Communication Method Support Autistic People, According to Facilitators' Opinions
Can the Facilitated Communication Method Support Autistic People, According to Facilitators' Opinions?AAC practitioners and researchers have developed non-speech communication strategies and technology greatly during the past 30 years. This article concentrates on one of them: the Facilitated Communication Method. The aim of this research is to describe the facilitated communication method in the light of the perceptions and experiences of facili…
The Throes and Relief of Divorce
A divorce is a series of victories and losses. Everyone's lives get better if a marriage eroded by painful disagreements is dissolved. Usually, both spouses go through purgatory with various trials along their divorce. The aim of this article is to analyze what kinds of feelings a divorce excites as described by divorcees (N = 74). What emotions do the divorcees emphasize in their divorce experience? The data were collected in the form of informa…
Emerging Adulthood in the Historical Life-story Study of Finnish Writer Arvi Järventaus in Lapland
The aim of this article is to consider the modern theories of Cultural Approach and Emerging Adulthood, developed by Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, in qualitative history-oriented research. This article looks at the biographic study of a Finnish author’s and clergyman’s first forty years of life in north Finland during 1883-1923. The object person is Arvi Järventaus, the first storyteller in Finnish Lapland. The research questions, bearing the cultur…
What Was Said? A Discourse Analysis of a Famous Finnish Radio Journalist’s Virtuous Monologues
The aim of this article is to study a well-known radio journalist and media-educator Hannu Taanila’s radio programs in a state-owned Finnish Broadcasting Company. Hannu Taanila is an influential media person whose radio programs were famous and popular. This article concentrates on Hannu Taanila’s radio monologues. The research data includes 16 radio programs broadcast in 2005. Each program lasted for 45 minutes and all of them were recorded, tra…
How Do the Sámi Culture and School Culture Converge - or Do They
This article dissects instruction in the Norwegian Sámi School and its cultural sensitivity. The focus is on the classroom culture of Sámi education: how Sámi education is arranged in practice. The core of the research is intertwined with issues concerning the status, language, and culture of Indigenous people in education. The research was ethnographic and the research data consists of questionnaires ( N= 108), teachers' ( N= 15) interviews, and…
Changing Identities
In the 1950s, marriage represented a traditional and typical form of an intimate relationship and family. Now, divorces, blended families, and single life have become commonplace. In this article, divorcees' experiences on the possibility of having or starting a new relationship are dissected. What kinds of expectations and challenges are involved? How do they see their chance of succeeding in the new relationship? This was a qualitative study, a…
From fear of eating to appetite for life
The aim of this research is to describe ex-anorectic patients' relationship with food and eating. Why and how do young women develop a twisted idea of eating and food? How do they describe their relationship with food and eating? The causes of anorexia are collected from the narratives of 11 Finnish women who have survived their own anorexic trip as winners. Anorexia is a serious psychiatric condition that can lead to death at its worst. The caus…
What Is the Future of Village Schools? A Case Study on the Life Cycle of a School in Northern Finland
This micro-historical research reveals what happened in the village of Aapajarvi located in a sparsely populated municipality in northern Finland since the school was established and since it disappeared. In this article, the following questions are studied: How was it possible to establish and build an elementary school in a remote and roadless village in poor circumstances at the time of post-war reconstruction and how did the situation of the …
Alone and in a group
The aim of this research was to study the social interaction and play of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ways an adult can support them. Eleven groups of Finnish children with ASD (N = 45) were observed in organized and free play situations and documented with video and written notes. The focus asks: How do autistic children play? Attention is paid to the potential communication and resources of children with ASD, and thus the pu…
The Successful Combination of Work and Family in Finland
This article focuses on the success at work from the family's point of view. This article is based on two researches in Finland: one that concentrated on marital success (N= 342 married couples) and the other one in which the employees of the year (N=8) described their solutions to combine work and family successfully. By uniting these two perspectives, the purpose is to give a unique description of how both the family and work roles can be combi…
Many Faces of Love
What do we actually talk about when we talk about love? Research on love and emotions has been met with suspicion although people live in a network of relationships from birth to death, and the ability to build and maintain relationships is an important strength. This book provides a comprehensive research-based analysis of love in human life: romantic love and its ups and downs, and the fascination of love, the combination of work and family, th…
“For Better and for Worse, or Until …”
Feelings of guilt that are related to divorce are little studied. In this study, moral guilt related to divorce was analyzed along with divorcees' feelings of guilt and the ways of making the other feel guilty. The focus is especially on the guilt related to the spouse and children. Divorcees' feelings of guilt were studied through a questionnaire mailed to participants in spring 2008: The data included 535 questionnaires (224 from men and 311 fr…
Changes in Teacher Profession in Finland during the War Years 1939-1945
What happened in the Finnish society affected Finnish teacher training significantly. Teacher training was seen as the means and channel of influencing the whole nation. This study makes an interesting example of how macro level processes and procedures influence on a singular profession and how it was performed in practice. Simultaneously, it functions as an example of a national importance of professions. This study focused on teacher training …
Childhood in the shadow of war
This study was focused on war-time childhood. The target period covers the war years 1939–1945 and the years of post-war reconstruction. The research was based on memories of 13 participants who lived in the countryside in northern Finland during the Second World War. The purpose of the study was to find out what children's everyday life was like during the war. According to the results, children did play regardless of the war situation. Children…
I am no longer alone – How do university students perceive the possibilities of social media
An increasing number of people have become users of social media, mostly looking for social contacts and networking. But what kind of social capital do social networking services (SNSs) provide? University students ’ (N 90) experiences of and opinions on social media were studied through a semi-structured questionnaire. The following research questions were set for this study: (1) What kinds of benefits do university students perceive in the usag…
Language Immersion Tepee” as a Facilitator of Sámi Language Learning
Due to the history of assimilation, power relations, and their sociolinguistic situation, the Sámi languages are categorized as endangered. The position of the Sámi languages in Sámi education is reviewed, and language immersion as a teaching method and as a means of language maintenance is discussed. Sámi language learning is described through the theoretical model of a “Language Immersion Tepee,” adapted from an idea in which the pupil advances…
Teacher Education in Finland during the War Years, 1939–45
The Second World War profoundly affected the school system in Finland that already functioned as the seedbed for the national ideology; the Finnish teacher training colleges were temporarily closed during the years 1939–45, and several college buildings served as stationary war hospitals. This article describes the operation of the teacher training college of Tornio in northern Finland and student teachers’ and teachers’ lives during the war year…
What are Finnish university students' motives for participating in student activism
Active citizenship is a goal in which universities want to invest: student activism has shown to increase students' skills and support positive study atmosphere. The purpose of this study was to analyse university students' motives for participating in student activism in order to find out ways of enhancing the development of active citizenship in students. This was a narrative study in which 47 student activists of Finnish university student act…
Everyone needs love’ – an interview study about perceptions of love in people with intellectual disability (ID)
How do people with intellectual disability (ID) perceive love and its role in their lives? The purpose of this study was to give voice to people with ID themselves and provide information about their needs for love. The study analysed how seven Finnish young adults with mild ID (5 women and 2 men) aged between 18 and 31 years described love and the meaning of love in their lives in semi-structured, qualitative theme interviews. The analysis was t…
It goes beyond the fundamentals of sex and education.” Analysis on the online commenting on the curriculum reform in Ontario
School-based sex education is a sensitive topic that divides opinions. This research focuses on the 2015 curriculum reform on sex education in Ontario and especially on the public online commenting on it. It was considered an interesting example of how educational reforms arouse debate and how the media can influence opinions. The data comprises comments (N = 544, of which 453 were included in the analysis) on a news article published by the Cana…
Online console game club as a resource a case study of the perceived meaning of club membership
What kind of community an online console game club is? Console game playing has often been viewed as having only negative influence on young people’s lives. In this research, a group of gamers (N = 8) was investigated. They were young adults who played the National Hockey League (NHL) console game regularly. The qualitative case study focused on finding out what made the club meaningful in the club members’ opinions and how they describe activiti…
Nine Contradictory Observations About Girls’ and Boys’ Upbringing and Education – The Strength-Based Approach as the Way to Eliminate the Gender Gap
Several studies in the 1970s and 1980s have showed how girls’ courage or willingness to bring out their talents and strengths at school is hindered by many factors. The self-esteem of girls who are known to be talented decreases especially during their adolescence. This phenomenon is connected to girls’ ability to notice conflicting expectations in their environment. They realize that they are expected to possess certain traditional female charac…
How Do Students Describe Their Study Processes in the Competence-Based Vocational Special Education Teacher Training
The competence-based approach has entered Finnish education after the recent reform of vocational education. Although there is plenty of research nationally and internationally about the idea of competence-based education, the student perspective has remained in the shadow. This research focused on vocational special education teacher students’ experiences of the competence-based education. They started at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences …
Love-Based leadership in early childhood education
A day care center is not just any place where children can spend their day while parents are at work. How to ensure that children have good childhood experiences and how to sup-port their positive development from the very beginning of their educational career? In this study, we introduce the concept of love-based leadership and discuss its role and implemen-tation in early education. Love-based leadership in early education is a method that rene…
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