Todellisuuksien risteävät tasot : ohjaajan identiteetin ja muotokielen löytämisestä

Opinnäytetyö käsittelee oman ohjaajanidentiteettini muodostumista ja oman ohjauksellisen muotokieleni hahmottumiseen johtaneita seikkoja. Käyn työssä läpi viimeisen kymmenen vuoden ajanjaksoa, jonka olen ollut teatterin aktiivisessa vaikutuspiirissä. Tarkastelen teatterikäsitykseni ja oman teatterisuhteeni muuttumista tuona aikana. Pääasiallisina tarkastelun kohteina käytän kolmea ohjaustyötäni, joiden kautta olen alkanut vahvasti muodostaa itselleni ohjaajaidentiteettiä. Ohjaukset syntyivät erilaisina ajankohtina suhteessa ammatti-identiteettini muotoutumiseen. Ensimmäinen ohjauksistani oli Eeva-Liisa Mannerin Poltettu oranssi ja sen ohjasin vuonna 2002, samana keväänä kun pyrin Stadian Esittävän taiteen koulutusohjelmaan. Toinen ohjaus oli koulutoverini Petri Jäärnin Steiner & Marie. Sen ohjasin keväällä 2005, kolmantena opiskeluvuotenani. Kolmas ohjaukseni oli ensimmäinen oma näytelmäni Natsimusikaali, joka oli myös opinnäyteohjaukseni Stadiaan. Natsimusikaalin ensi-ilta oli tammikuussa 2007. Näiden kolmen ohjauksen kautta pohdin oman muotokieleni kehittymistä ja teatterikäsitykseni muuttumista. Näistä pääasiallisena tarkastelun kohteena on kuitenkin Natsimusikaali. Se on tähänastisista töistäni ehdottomasti laajin ja siinä näkyi jo selvästi oma teatterillinen muotokieleni. Käsittelen muotokieleni muotoutumista todellisuuksien tasojen risteyttämisen kautta. Näiden ohjausten myötä käsittelen myös suhdettani tekstiin, kirjoittamiseen, tilaan, näyttelijöihin ja aiheeseen.

3 pieces in old style

Digitoitu 16. 10. 2008.

Intercultural bridges in teenagers' theatrical events : performing self and constructing cultural identity through a creative drama process

The overriding aim of this drama educational case study is to deepen the understanding of meaning making in a creative intercultural youth theatre process and to examine it in the context of the 10th European Children's TheatreEncounter. The research task is to give a theoretical description of some key features of a creative drama process as the basis for theory about meaning makingin physical theatre. The first task is to illuminate the culture-historical connections of the multilayered practice of the EDERED-association. The second taskis to analyse and interpret theatrical meaning making. The ethnographical research site is regarded as a theatrical event. The analysis of the theatrical eventis divided into four segments: cultural contexts, contextual theatricality, theatrical playing and playing culture. These segments are connected with four research questions: What are the cultural contexts of a creative drama process? How can the organisation of the Encounter, genres, aesthetic codes and perception ofcodes be seen to influence the lived experiences of the participants? What are some of the key phases and characteristics in a creative practice? What kind of cultural learning can be interpreted from the performance texts? The interpretative question concerns identity and community (re)construction. How are the categories, `community´ and `child´ constructed in the Encounter culture? In this drama educational case study the research material (transcribed interviews, coded questionnaire answers, participant drawings, videotaped process text and performance texts) are examined in a multi-method analysis in the meta-theoretical framework of Dewey's naturalistic pragmatism. A three-dimensional research interest through a combination of lived experiences, social contexts and cultural-aesthetical practices compared with drama-educational practices required the methodological project of cultural studies. Furthermore, the critical interpretation of cultural texts is divided into three levels of analyses which are called description, structural analysis and theoretical interpretation. Dialogic validity (truthfulness, self-reflexivity and polyvocality) is combined with contextual validity (sensitivity to social context and awareness of historicity) and with deconstructive validity (awareness of the social discourses). My research suggests that itis possible, by means of physical theatre, to construct symbolic worlds where questions about intercultural identity and multilingual community are examined and where provisional answers are constructed in social interaction.

Peter Pan never goes out of style : nuorisotutkijat ymmällään

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Managerial decision-making style : India, Bangladesh, and Finland : cultural side of the game

Julkaisumaa Intia 356 IN IND

Burda Style -lehden käännökset. Funktionaalinen käännösanalyysi

Tässä tutkielmassa vertaillaan Burda Style -lehden käännöksiä alkuperäisestä saksan kielestä englannin, ranskan, suomen ja unkarin kielelle käännöstieteilijä Christiane Nordin käännöslähtöisen analyysimallin avulla. Tutkin erityisesti lehden ompeluohjeosiota, joka on lehdessä itsenäinen kokonaisuus. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten ompeluohjeiden informaatio on säilynyt käännöksessä ja miten sitä on mahdollisesti muokattu uusi vastaanottaja huomioon ottaen. Burda Style on saksalainen lehti, jolla on pitkä historia. Lehti ilmestyy nykyään 99 maassa ja se on käännetty 17 kielelle. Christiane Nordin käännöslähteisessä analyysimallissa tarkastellaan tekstin ulkoisia ja sisäisiä tekijöitä. Analyysimalli on joustava ja tarkastelunkohteita voidaan käyttää niiden tarpeen mukaan. Tekstin ulkoisia tekijöitä ovat: lähettäjä, lähettäjän aikomus, vastaanottaja, väline, paikka aika, motiivi sekä funktio. Tekstin sisäisiä tekijöitä taas ovat: aihe, sisältö, presuppositiot, rakenne, nonverbaaliset elementit, sanasto, rakenne sekä suprasegmentaaliset piirteet. Nord esittelee nämä tekijät hyvin selkeästi teoksessaan Text Analysis in Translation: Theory, Methodology, and Didactic Application of a Model for Translation-Oriented Text Analysis (1991) ja tämä teos onkin tärkein teos tutkielmani kannalta. Lähestyn toisaalta aineistoani myös Katharina Reissin ja Hans J. Vermeerin funktionaalisen käännösanalyysimallin avulla, jonka mukaan kääntämisen ensisijainen tehtävä on mahdollistaan tekstin toimivuus uudessa tilanteessa. Tekstin skopos, eli funktio, määrää ensisijaisesti jokaisessa käännösvalinnan. Käytän työssäni Reissin ja Vermeerin teosta Mitä kääntäminen on: teoriaa ja käytäntöä (1986). Tutkielman empiirisessä osassa analysoin ompeluohjeet Nordin ulkoisten ja sisäisten tekijöiden avulla. Jotkut tekijät ovat toisia oleellisempia, siksi perehdyn tiettyihin tekijöihin enemmän. Tutkielmassa ilmeni, että lehtiä oli muokattu jonkin verran uutta vastaanottajaa huomioon ottaen. Ohjeisiin oli mm. tehty poistoja sekä lisäyksiä. Tekstilajin konventiot oli otettu hyvin huomioon eri käännöksissä ja ammattisanastoa oli tasapuolisesti. Suurimman muutoksen käännösprosessissa oli kokenut unkarinkielinen käännös, josta oli poistettu monia osakokonaisuuksia alkuperäiseen nähden.

Naamion takaa : näyttelijäntyön palapelini

The subject of this bachelor's thesis has its origins in the frequently asked question of an author; whether any of their own theatrical techniques correlate with those of any well-known theatrical personality. The aim of this bachelor's thesis, consequently, was to find out the true nature of the author as an actor and theatrical professional. The author started to put together a puzzle, from different fields of acting techniques, and came up with a solid picture. Different acting techniques and the basics of them were clarified and tested in practice. Techniques were reflected on, through great personalities in the field of theatre, via discussion. The selected personalities were Jouko Turkka, Antonin Artaud, Konstantin Stanislavski, Kaisa Korhonen and Bertolt Brecht. The toughness and physicality of acting played a strong role in this thesis. "Black pedagogy" was strongly criticized. The methods of Jouko Turkka were thoroughly investigated and, surprisingly to the author, turned out usable, although the author questioned the brutal ways that Turkka used them. The author carried out some of the physical exercises that corresponded to the different acting methods, and did "human tests" to understand the true meaning of the methods. Antonin Artaud abandoned all of his past life and sacrificed himself to art, which the author refuses to even consider it. The author found a soul-mate in Kaisa Korhonen and agreed with most of her methods. Many people who had worked with Kaisa Korhonen were interviewed to find out if she actually used the techniques. The author debated objectivity with Bertolt Brecht but, whereas Brecht saw it as the basis of everything, the author couldn't even consider it a usable technique. The author also had a discussion with Konstantin Stanislavski concerning the basics of acting, the study of singing, dancing and oral expression, and other beneficial skills. In the end, the author put herself on a plate, chopped herself into tiny pieces, started to study the pieces, and found out how she became as she is.

Voiko totuutta tavoittaa? : direct cinema -tyylisuunnan käyttö dokumenttielokuvassa

The subject of this study is the use of direct cinema style in documentary film. The main purpose of this thesis was to the research the ways in which direct cinema style attempts to show and achieve truth in documentary films. The following questions were posed: Is it possible to depict reality in a documentary film; how does the choice of using this style affect the final documentary? The essential purpose of this study was to try to see whether the direct cinema style works when trying to achieve truth in a documentary film. This work consints of two elements, the theoretical part and the short documentary. The theoretical part deals with the history, the truth, and the direct cinema- style in documentaries. The theoretical information of direct cinema has been used when making the short documentary. In the documentary Tuloaula 2 I have studied the way in which using direct cinema -style works in practise. The documentary has followed as strictly as possible the direct cinema style. I was the director, the cameraman and the editor of my documentary film. In the documentary film Tuloaula 2 it appeared that the direct cinema style works best when filming everyday life. By using this style it is easy for the director to observe and leave his own persona in the background. The strength in using the direct cinema style is that it enables the viewer to build his/her own impression on the subject. Even though the direct cinema style aims to achieve objectivity the director has to make numerous subjective choices during both the filming and the editing process. These subjective choices automatically effect the "truth" of the documentary film. The difficulty in a direct cinema style is the large amount of material. This often leads to a long editing phase, which is not often possible in the busy production schedules. The direct cinema style is not at its best when shooting people who are passive because their attention often focuses too much on the camera. In general, the best way to make a documentary film would be to use many documentary styles in one film and not to srictly concentrate on only one style.

Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision. Development and Validation of the CLES Evaluation Scale

The purpose of the study is: (1) to describe how nursing students' experienced their clinical learning environment and the supervision given by staff nurses working in hospital settings; and (2) to develop and test an evaluation scale of Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision (CLES). The study has been carried out in different phases. The pilot study (n=163) explored the association between the characteristics of a ward and its evaluation as a learning environment by students. The second version of research instrument (which was developed by the results of this pilot study) were tested by an expert panel (n=9 nurse teachers) and test-retest group formed by student nurses (n=38). After this evaluative phase, the CLES was formed as the basic research instrument for this study and it was tested with the Finnish main sample (n=416). In this phase, a concurrent validity instrument (Dunn & Burnett 1995) was used to confirm the validation process of CLES. The international comparative study was made by comparing the Finnish main sample with a British sample (n=142). The international comparative study was necessary for two reasons. In the instrument developing process, there is a need to test the new instrument in some other nursing culture. Other reason for comparative international study is the reflecting the impact of open employment markets in the European Union (EU) on the need to evaluate and to integrate EU health care educational systems. The results showed that the individualised supervision system is the most used supervision model and the supervisory relationship with personal mentor is the most meaningful single element of supervision evaluated by nursing students. The ward atmosphere and the management style of ward manager are the most important environmental factors of the clinical ward. The study integrates two theoretical elements - learning environment and supervision - in developing a preliminary theoretical model. The comparative international study showed that, Finnish students were more satisfied and evaluated their clinical placements and supervision with higher scores than students in the United Kingdom (UK). The difference between groups was statistical highly significant (p= 0.000). In the UK, clinical placements were longer but students met their nurse teachers less frequently than students in Finland. Arrangements for supervision were similar. This research process has produced the evaluation scale (CLES), which can be used in research and quality assessments of clinical learning environment and supervision in Finland and in the UK. CLES consists of 27 items and it is sub-divided into five sub-dimensions. Cronbach's alpha coefficient varied from high 0.94 to marginal 0.73. CLES is a compact evaluation scale and user-friendliness makes it suitable for continuing evaluation.