Abstract This study focuses on practices of engagement and representation in North–South international partnerships, and in global and development education in Finland. The first objective was approached through a qualitative methodology involving document analyses, and interviews with northern and southern partners engaged in education sector partnerships in Zambia from 2003 to 2007. The second objective discusses challenges and possibilities for more ethical North–South partnerships in global and development education policies in Finland. This doctoral study report consists of four articles and a thesis summary. This study draws on three fields of scholarship: postcolonial studies, development studies and global and development education studies. Postcolonial theory is used selectively as a ‘tool for thinking’ that connects critical examinations of North–South engagements and representations with educational possibilities. The methodological framework consists of a combination of different qualitative methods including ethnography and content analysis of three sets of data: 1) 19 semi-structured theme interviews, 2) five open-ended narrative interviews and 3) selected Finnish global and development education policy documents. In the analysis of structures, narratives and relationships in educational partnerships in Zambia, this study outlines tensions and paradoxes that point to the need for more ethical practices that can move beyond hegemonic, ethnocentric and paternalistic patterns of representation and engagement in international development work. The study concludes that ethical engagements in North–South education sector partnerships require an approach that goes beyond individual skills, knowledge and competencies. The importance of systemic analyses of power and knowledge production, of acknowledging the historical and cultural referents that frame possibilities of understanding, and of acknowledging the complexities that are present in North–South engagements are emphasized. Furthermore, the importance of self-reflexivity is suggested as a starting point for understanding the limits of universalised forms of knowing to support ethical engagements. / Tiivistelmä Tässä tutkimuksessa tutkitaan pohjoinen–etelä -yhteistyötä Sambian opetussektorilla ja siihen liittyvää tematiikkaa globaali- ja kehityskasvatuksessa Suomessa. Tämä kvalitatiivinen tutkimus analysoi Sambiassa vuosina 2003–2007 koulutussektorin kumppanuusohjelmiin osallistuneiden sambialaisten ja eurooppalaisten kehitysyhteistyöntekijöiden haastatteluja sekä kehitysyhteistyöhön, globaali- ja kehityskasvatukseen liittyviä asiakirjoja. Tutkimus käsittelee haasteita ja mahdollisuuksia pyrittäessä eettisempiin pohjoisen ja etelän välisiin kumppanuuksiin koulutussektorin kehitysyhteistyössä sekä globaali- ja kehityskasvatuksen alueella Suomessa. Väitöskirjatutkimus koostuu tiivistelmästä ja neljästä artikkelista. Tutkimus hyodyntää kolmea tutkimusalaa: postkolonialistista tutkimusta, kehitystutkimusta sekä gloobaali- ja kehityskasvatusta. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen viitekehys perustuu postkolonialistiseen teoriaan, joka tarkastelee krittisesti pohjoisen ja etelän välisiä kumppanuuksia ja niissä ilmeneviä koulutuksellisia mahdollisuuksia.Tutkimuksessa käytetään postkolonialistisia käsitteitä ja näkemyksiä ’ajattelun työkaluina’. Tämän tutkimuksen metodologinen viitekehys yhdistää useita kvalitatiivisia menetelmiä, kuten etnografiaa, sisällönanalyysia ja narratiivisuutta. Etnografian avulla pyritään ymmärtämään tutkimuksen tärkeintä kontekstia, Sambian koulutussektoria. Tämän tutkimuksen ensimmäinen primääri aineisto kerättiin puolistrukturoiduilla teemahaastatteluilla (19). Toinen käytetty tutkimusaineisto sisältää avoimia haastatteluita (5), joissa hyödynnettiin narratiivista aineistonkeruumenetelmää. Kolmas tutkimusaineisto sisältää suomalaisia globaali- ja kehityskasvatuksen asiakirjoja. Näitä kolmea tutkimusaineistoryhmää analysoidaan kvalitatiivisen sisällönanalyysin keinoin. Sambian koulutussektorin kumppanuuksien rakenteiden, narratiivien ja suhteiden analyysi paljastaa jännitteitä sekä paradokseja. Tutkimusanalyysi osoittaa, miten tarkeää on tiedostaa historiallisia ja kulttuurisia seikkoja, jotka ulottuvat yksilöiden taitoja, osaamista sekä pätevyyksiä syvemmälle tasolle. Tutkimus esittää, että refleksiivisyys (self-reflexivity) on hyvä lähtökohta tiedon, taitojen ja osaamisen suhteellisuuden ymmärtämiseen eettisempien pohjoisen ja etelän välisten kumppanuuksien tukemisessa koulutussektorin kehitysyhteistyössä sekä globaali- ja kehityskasvatuksessa Suomessa.

Diploma thesis Utilization of weekly diary for developing personal competences of primary school pupils deals with strategies of development of pupils' social and personal competences, namely with fulfilling the chosen goals of personal and social education in primary school. The theoretic part of my thesis proves the meaning of the goals of personal and social education and lists the possibilities of their realisation in primary school. The thesis is farther concerned with the development of the key competences with the help of personal and social education and its methods. I concentrate on the meaning of the individualisation in pupils' education and the means of the development of reflective skills in a heterogenous class. The empirical part is an teacher's action research in its character. It presents a description of an authentically created process of the introduction of Weekly diary method to the work of primary school pupils'. The purpose of Weekly diary is to help the development of pupils' skills of self-reflexion. Alongside it should support good climax in the class, make the pupil - teacher relationship closer and the individualised support of the pupils' learning process more effective. This thesis records the gradual development of Weekly diary, changing of its form and work with this...

The master's thesis called Sofie Podlipská. Public Activities in the Light of Historical Documents makes a contribution to the history of Czech women's emancipation. It deals with Sofie Podlipská and her social, literary, and cultural activities. She is presented as an independent and creative woman who gained the respect of society as a writer and philanthropist and, at the same time, managed to combine motherhood with her career. Anthropological reflection of the life story of Sofie Podlipská in the context of her social activities is the substantial part of the thesis as well as the reflection of the key factors that helped shape her opinions, attitudes and viewpoints. The major part of the thesis is the description of these activities as reflected in historical resources that have survived in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature and the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. Research perspectives that open possibilities for future studies and the interpretation of existing archival documents of the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature and the Podještědské Museum in Český Dub are also significant parts of the thesis. KEY WORDS Sofie Podlipská, 19th century, self-reflection, ego-documents, marriage, family, emancipation, society, fellowship,...

The essay is an attempt to make sense of the apparently special relation between self-knowledge and agency. To achieve that goal, the essay translates the account of what it is like to be a human self offered by Sartre into the language of evolutionary psychology. In L’être et le néant, Sartre describes the phenomenology of the self as a series of inescapable choices in a contingent set of circumstances. This essay identifies Sartre’s description with what Baumeister, Maranges and Sjåstad call a matrix of maybe: the mechanism of nonfactual pragmatic prospection found in humans. Consequently, it defines the self as a matrix of maybe operating within a contingency matrix and reflecting on its own operation. Self-knowledge, the essay concludes, seems special because we routinely and erroneously ascribe to the self features of its contingency matrix. Most of our true first-person claims should not be read as I PREDICATE. Instead, they can be explicated as I have to act in a world where C PREDICATE, where C is the relevant part of the contingency matrix.

This thesis deals with the theme of possibilities to develop communication skills of health social workers in Prague hospitals. The aim of the study is to find out what are the possibilities of education available for health social workers in hospitals. It also discuss whether health social workers are actively interested in the development of their communication skills and what resources are used most often. The thesis describes the basic concepts and the competence of health social worker. Next part is about education and laws which oblige to lifelong learning. The thesis also focuses on self-reflection and supervision from the perspective of other sources of education - self-knowledge. Practical part of the thesis deals with the research between health social workers in Prague hospitals. The aim of the research is to find out, whether these workers are actively educated in communication skills. The paper includes analysis and interpretation of results, discussion and conclusion of whole thesis. Keywords Communication, social work, health social work, conversation, education, self-reflection, supervision.

Bakgrund: Självreflektion innebär att kunna iaktta sig själv, sina reaktioner och att kunnasamtala med sig själv om sina handlingar och om sina upplevelser. Det är ett medvetetsökande efter förståelse. Reflektion ger möjlighet att utveckla yrkesmässig medvetenhet omsitt eget sätt att fungera och reagera. Genom systematisk reflektion kan individen utvecklasoch koppla teori till praktik. Individen måste medvetet utvärdera sina erfarenheter för attkunna dra lärdom av dem. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa sjuksköterskors möjligheter till självreflektion inom psykiatriskvård. Metod: En integrativ litteraturstudie användes som metod. Data inhämtades från databasernaCinahl plus, PubMed och PsycINFO.Sammanlagt sex artiklar ligger till grund för resultat. Material har analyserats medWhittemore och Knafls (2005) analysmetod. Resultat: Sjuksköterskor behövde skapa utrymme för självreflektion. Studier visade attarbetsgivare behövde möjliggöra att självreflektion kunde utövas på arbetsplatsen ochmedarbetare måste värdesätta att självreflektion kunde fungera som ett hjälpmedel i denpsykiatriska omvårdnaden. Det var också viktigt att lärare och utbildare, i enutbildningssituation, var intresserade av individens lärande och hade kunskap om hur man lärut självreflektion. Slutsats: Möjligheter till självreflektion är tid, kunskap och en tillåtande miljö därsjuksköterskan eller sjuksköterskestudenten kan och vågar ställa frågor och där det finns engemensam norm som värdesätter självreflektion på arbetsplatsen. / Backgound: Self-reflection means being able to observe oneself, their reactions and beingable to talk to themselves about their actions and their experiences. It is a conscious search forunderstanding. Reflection provides the opportunity to develop professional awareness ofone ́s own way of functioning and reacting. Through systematic reflection, the individual candevelop and link theory to practice. The individual must consciously evaluate theirexperiences in order to learn from them. Aim: The purpose of this study is to elucidate nurses ́ opportunities for self-reflection inpsychiatric careMethod: An integrative literature study was used as a method. Data were obtained from thedatabases Cinahl Plus, PubMed and PSYCinfo. A total of six articles form the basis for theresult. The material has been analyzed using the Whittemore and Knafls (2005) method. Results: Nurses need to create space for self-reflection. The study showed that employersneeded to enable self-reflection to be exercised in the workplace and employees needed toappreciate that self-reflection could serve as an aid in psychiatric nursing. It was alsoeducators, in an educational situation, were interested in the individual ́s learning and hadknowledge of how to teach self-reflection. Conclusion: Opportunities for self-reflection are time, knowledge and a permissiveenvironment where the nurse or nurse student can and dare to ask questions and where there isa common norm that values self-reflection in the workplace.

More than half a century ago, R. B. Fuller wrote: “All of humanity now has the option to ‘make it’ successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less” (Fuller 2019, p. 7).

The diploma thesis focuses on the topic of personal and social development of pupils in the music education process at the 1st level of basic education. It brings forward selected music therapy techniques, which represent one of the means of personal and social education. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the concept of personal and social education with a brief history of the issue. It represents the position of personal and social education in curricular documents. The practical part of the work presents regular teaching of music lessons at the Dolní Břežany Elementary school. The research part also includes activities with emotional cards. The diploma thesis offers a possible connection of communication cards with listening to selected songs, in order to briefly diagnose the research sample. The chosen music therapy techniques are applied to the pupils of the 1st grade, which represents a significant milestone in the transition from kindergarten to primary school. KEYWORDS: Personal and social education, motivation, music therapy, climate of class, reflection, self- reflection, cooperation

Ett hinder inom utbildningar på högre nivå har sedan länge varit att det är svårt förlärare att få en bild över hur det går för studenterna som överensstämmer medverkligheten. De områden som förmodas vara svåra kanske inte upplevs som detav studenterna, och vice versa. Utöver direkta frågor från studenter så behöverlärarna gissa sig fram till vad studenterna upplever som svårt, vilket inte ger en sannbild.Inom vissa tekniska och matematiska utbildningar rekommenderar lärare övningarsom studenterna förväntas göra för att skapa en förståelse för området. Det finnsen risk att studenter inte genomför uppgifterna löpande utan i stället spenderarmycket tid vid kursens slut. Det ger inte samma djupa kunskap som att kontinuerligtstudera.Lärare publicerar vanligen de uppgifter som rekommenderas i en textfil påtillgänglig utbildningsplattform, vilket inte ger möjlighet att lösa de problem somtidigare nämnts. Förslaget är därför RekUpp (Rekommenderade Uppgifter), enwebbapplikation som lärarna ska kunna använda för att föreslå uppgifter somstudenterna bör utföra. Programmet är skräddarsytt för att engagera studenternai reflektion angående sin egen prestation samt ge förutsättningar för att bättrehantera sin egen studietid. Informationen och den data som uppstår kan lärarnaanvända på bästa sätt för att övergripande analysera studenternas prestationer påkursen. Programmet förväntas både bidra till att lösa problemet med brist påinformation och till att engagera studenter.I det här arbetet redovisas utvecklingsprocessen. Denna baseras på tidigareforskning kring självreglering, självreflektion och digitala verktyg för att på bästamöjliga sätt engagera studenter och samtidigt få ut information som lärare kananvända för att justera och förbättra undervisningen. Tanken är att utvecklingen avsystemet, och de slutsatser som presenteras, ska kunna användas somutgångspunkt eller ramverk för att utveckla liknande system. / An obstacle in higher education has for a long time been that it is difficult forteachers to get an overview for how the students are performing. The parts of thecourse that are believed to be hard may not be, and vice versa. Beyond directquestions from students, teachers must guess from the best of their ability aboutwhich exercises that the students experience as difficult.Within certain technical and mathematical educations, it is common for teachersto recommend exercises that the students are expected to complete to get anunderstanding of the field. There is a risk that students don’t do these exercisescontinuously and instead spend a lot of time studying ahead of an exam at the endof the course. This does not give the same deep knowledge as continuous studydoes.Teachers tend to publish these exercises in a text file on an available learningplatform, this does not solve the problems mentioned previously. A suggestion fora solution is RekUpp (from the Swedish translation of Recommended exercises), aweb application that teachers can use to publish which exercises students aremeant to do. The program is tailored to engage students in self-reflection abouttheir performance and give them prerequisites for better time management. Theinformation and data that is created can be used by teachers to analyze how thestudents are performing. The system is expected to contribute to solving both theproblem of a lack of information and to continuously engage students.In this report the development process is described. This is based on previousresearch about self-regulation, self-reflection, and digital tools to engage studentsin the best possible way and at the same time transfer information that teacherscan use to adjust and improve their courses. The intention is that the developmentof the program, and the conclusions that are presented, can be used as a startingpointor framework to develop similar systems.

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