Kansainvälisen politiikan opetus Suomessa1970- ja 1980-lukujen taitteessa : Morgenthaun realistisen opetusfilosofian näkökulma

English abstract: Teaching international relations in Finland : perspective of Morgenthau's realistic philosophy of education

Säästämisen rakennemuutos – Case Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on tutkia ja ymmärtää sitä todellisuutta, jossa asiakkaat tekevät päätöksiään säästämisen vaihtoehdoista sekä tutkia kuinka se on muuttunut viimeisten vuosien aikana. Mitkä tekijät ovat taustalla, kun todellisuus muuttuu? Mikä on eri osapuolten rooli tässä muutoksessa? Tutkielma koostuu teoreettisesta ja empiirisestä osioista. Teoreettinen osio on kirjoituspöytätutkimusta, jonka tietolähteinä ovat teoriakirjallisuus ja aikaisemmat tutkimukset säästämisen rakenteesta Suomessa ja asiakkaiden säästämisaikeista, -kohteista ja –motiiveista. Empiirisen osion aineisto koostuu 20 henkilökohtaisen pankkineuvojan ja 10 johtajan haastattelujen tulkinnasta, analysoinnista ja johtopäätöksistä. Henkilökohtaisten pankkineuvojien haastattelussa tuli ilmi, että säästämisen filosofia on muuttunut viimeisen kymmenen vuoden aikana. Säästämisen ajatus on lähentynyt sijoittamisen ajatusta. Tutkimuksessa ilmeni, että säästämisen todellisuus syntyy asiakkaiden, henkilökohtaisten pankkineuvojien ja pankinjohtajien vuorovaikutuksessa. Lisäksi merkittävässä vaikuttajan roolissa ovat myös viranomaiset, jotka säätävät puitteet säästämisen palveluiden tarjonnalle.

Alternative Energy Conversion Systems for a Micro Scale Wind Turbine

This Master's thesis deals with a Micro Scale Wind Wind Turbine application. The thesis consists of nine chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to the philosophy of a small scale wind turbine application. The second defines concepts, and lists the requirements. The third presents the whole application for an On-Grid , and for an Off-Grid arrangement, with main concentration on lighting, heating, and energy storage. The fourth deals with the Inverter's technology, which are used for the conversion of the produced power. The fifth chapter presents the available storage technology and it's possibilities. The sixth deals with the system, and the technological means used for the implementation. The seventh presents the PLC device, which was used as the controller for the management of the whole application. The eighth deals with the concept and the control application philosophy that the PLC involves. And the final chapter presents conclusions and ideas for further considerations.

Tieteellisen historiankirjoituksen puolustuspuhe

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Historiatonta historianfilosofiaa

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Kampen for livet i vemodets slør : å leve i spenningsfeltet mellom livets mulighet og dødens nødvendighet

The overallpurpose of this research is to develop knowledge about health and suffering in connection with serious cancer disease through the development of a contextual model describing how patients live their lives between the possibility of life and the necessity of death. The research takes its point of departure from a caring science perspective, and Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy is chosen as the overall methodology. In addition to the caring science perspective, the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard constructs a framework of interpretation. The research consists of three empirical studies. In two of the studies 21 patients participated, whilst 8 nurses took part in the remaining study. The patients were seriously ill and the nurses had long experience of caring for seriously ill patients. Scientific conversations were used for data collection. The findings from the patient studies show that the relationship with one-self, others, God or the supernatural and nature, constitute the unit of meaning, in which the struggle between health and suffering takes place. This struggle takes the form of a dialectic movement between being delivered and being accommodated and confirmed. The patients strive, in their delivery, for health and integration, for being a self by being reconciled with one self. The patients are lonely in this struggle, as conversations related to existence and death seldom occurs with either the natural or the professional caregivers. Themes related to patients' death remain mainly unarticulated. The patients' life struggle appears on the existential level as a threefold struggle against time and annihilation, towards being accommodatedand confirmed and for restoration and reconciliation. Through the hermeneutic process the struggle at the ontological level appears as a struggle of the will between anxiety and love. The patients in this research experience their life's tragedy. A holistic interpretation of living under the pressure created between the possibility of life and the necessity of death appears to be a struggle for life in the veil of pensiveness. The nurses want to be involved in the patients' struggle, and they show a deep desire to support the dignity of the patients. The depth in the nurses' view of their responsibility for the patient as an entityof body, soul and spirit seems to be related to the nurses' understanding of life.

Foucault, fenomenologi?

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

”Opi, perusasiat”

Kirja-arvio

Frihetens möjligheter och den erfarande kroppen

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

En gestaltning av individens erfarenhetsbaserade kunskap inom diabetesvården

The aim of this study is to form the experience-based knowledge of diabetics. The broader intent is to be able to transform this experience-based knowledge as an asset within caring. In this study, a theoretical contact for the empirical data is presented through phronesis, i.e. practical wisdom. Phronesis can be seen as the most suitable form of knowledge to be able to deepen the individual's understanding of experiencebased knowledge. For this research, hermeneutic phenomenology was chosen. Abductive reasoning was the method chosen to approach the data collected through repeated deep interviews with individuals with personal experience of diabetes and the use of insulin pumps. The abductive approach fascilitates a broader interpretation of the primary empirical results via a theory of philosophy of science, such as phronesis, the life-world and the negativity of the experience. The latent message of the empirical data is thereby also additionally highlighted. The synthesis reveals that experience-based knowledge arrives with time, it is personified and praxis-oriented, and before this time, the knowledge and security must be provided by the established care, by people close to the individual or by other external sources. The experience-based knowledge has strenghts and weaknesses. The knowledge is further categorized by the individual's ability to discern and make judgement. Additionally, the experience-based kowledge is a reflecting and action-based knowledge striving to improve the care provided. The experience-based knowledge held by the individual is potentially a great instrument towards improving general knowledge with possible practical applications within the diabetic care. Furthermost, in practical suggestions to fascilitate care. In generally applying knowledge gathered from the individual's experiental point of view, there are inherent risks. These risks could potentially be eliminated through the adoption of a concept where the established care could function as a quality guarantor. A concept taking into account the experiencebased knowledge as a source of information and knowledge in the care for diabetics. Co-created knowledge and understanding is a position found in both self-care and pump-treatment. It is also found through the optimal application of the experience-based knowledge of the individual as well as the knowledge found within the established care, in order to fascilitate well-being. This as expressed by the individual's phronesis-based knowledge.