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Lentueen päällikkö pedagogisena johtajana

Tässä tutkimuksessa arvioidaan, miten lentueen päällikkö kykenee pedagogisen johtamisen keinoin vaikuttamaan lentueessa lentokoulutusta saavien lento-oppilaiden oppimistuloksiin. Tutkimuksessa keskitytään lentokoulutusta Vinka- ja Hawk-kalustolla antaviin lentueisiin. Tutkimuksen avulla pyritään selvittämään, millaisia käytännön keinoja lentueen päälliköllä on vaikuttaa oppimistuloksiin pedagogisen johtamisen keinoin. Aihe on ajankohtainen johtuen puolustusvoimiin kohdistuvista säästötoimenpiteistä, jotka aiheuttavat lentotuntien vähenemistä ilmavoimissa. Lento-oppilaiden tulee oppia samat tiedot ja taidot, vaikka aikaa on kuitenkin käytössä vähemmän kuin aikaisemmin. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen viitekehys rakentuu pedagogisen johtamisen sekä oppivan organisaation mallien ympärille. Tutkimuksessa on käytetty tutkimusmenetelmänä kvalitatiivista sisällönanalyysia. Tutkimalla pedagogisesta johtamisesta sekä oppivasta organisaatiosta laadittuja tutkimuksia kyettiin tekemään johtopäätöksiä, miten lentueen päällikön pedagoginen johtaminen vaikuttaa lentueessa työskenteleviin lento-oppilaisiin. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa laadittiin pedagogisen johtajan keinovalikoima, joka lentueen päälliköllä on käytössä jokapäiväisessä työssään. Tutkimuksen tuloksista voidaan havaita, että lentueen päälliköllä on mahdollisuus pedagogisen johtamisen keinoin vaikuttaa positiivisesti oppimistuloksiin. Lentueen päälliköllä on mahdollisuus pedagogisen johtamisen keinoin luoda lentueeseen oppimista tukeva ilmapiiri, mikä motivoi lento-oppilaita ja parantaa todennäköisesti oppimistuloksia. Tulevaisuudessa lentueiden päälliköiden tulisi tiedostaa pedagogisen johtamisen mahdollisuus sekä sen vaikutus lentueen toimintaan. Pedagoginen johtaja voi saada lentueeseen aikaan oppimista paremmin tukevan ilmapiirin, joka vaikuttaa positiivisesti toimintaan lentueessa. Pedagogisesti johtamalla lentueen päällikkö voi pedagogisen johtamisen keinoin saada koulutuksessa olevat lentäjät paremmin motivoituneiksi, jolloin he suoriutuvat tehtävistään paremmin ja antavat täyden työpanoksensa. Tällaisessa tilanteessa lento-oppilaiden oppimistulokset todennäköisesti paranevat ja lentokoulutusten keskeytyksiltä voidaan mahdollisesti välttyä.

Self-Assessment Report for International Accreditation - Chemical Engineering

Kemiantekniikan kandidaatin ja diplomi-insinöörin tutkinto-ohjelmien itsearviointiraportissa käsitellään tutkinto-ohjelmien osaamistavoitteita ja niiden saavuttamista. Raportissa käydään läpi myös käytössä olevat resurssit sekä tutkinto-ohjelmiin liittyviä tunnuslukuja. Itsearviointi on toteutettu kansainvälisen akkreditointijärjestön kriteerien mukaisesti (ASIIN ja EUR-ACE).

Imagining a New Society: Public Painting as Politics in Postwar Finland

The thesis is the first comprehensive study on Finnish public painting, public artworks generally referred to as murals or monumental paintings. It focuses on the processes of production of public paintings during the post-WWII decades in Finland and the complex relationships between the political sphere and the production of art. The research studies the networks of agents involved in the production of public paintings. Besides the human agents—artists, assistants, commissioners and viewers—also public paintings were and are agents in the processes of production and in their environments. The research questions can be grouped into three overlapping series of questions: First, the research investigates the production public paintings: What kinds of public paintings were realised in postwar Finland—how, where, by whom and for what purposes? Second, it discusses the publicness of these paintings: How were public paintings defined, and what aspects characterised them as “public”? What was their relation to public space, public authorities, and audience? And third, it explores the politics of public paintings: the relationship between Finnish public painting, nationalism, and the memory of war. To answer these questions, extensive archival work has been performed, and over 200 public paintings have been documented around Finland. The research material has been studied in a sociological framework and in the context of the political and economic history of Finland, employing critical theories on public space and public art as well as theories on the building of nationalism, commemoration, memory, and forgetting. An important aim of this research was to open up a new field of study and position public painting within Finnish art history, from which it has been conspicuous by its absence. The research indicates that public painting was a significant genre of art in postwar Finland. The process of creating a national genre of public painting participated in the defining of municipal and state art politics in the country, and paintings functioned as vehicles of carrying out the agenda of the commissioning bodies. In the formation of municipal art policies in Finland in the 1950s, public painting connected to the same tendency of democratising art as the founding of public art museums. Public painting commissions also functioned as an arena of competition and a means of support for the artists. Public paintings were judged and commissioned within the realm of political decision-making, and they suggested the values of the decision-making groups, generally conveyed as the values of the society. The participation of official agents in the production allocated a position of official art to the genre. Through the material of this research, postwar public painting is seen as an agent in a society searching for a new identity. The postwar public painting production participated in the creation of the Finnish welfare society as indications of a humane society. It continued a tradition of public art production that had been built on nationalist and art educational ideologies in the late 19th and early 20th century. Postwar public paintings promoted the new national narrative of unification by creating an image of a homogeneous society with a harmonious communal life. The paintings laid out an image of Finnishness that was modern but rooted in the agrarian past, of a society that was based on hard work and provided for its members a good life. Postwar public painting was art with a mission, and it created an image of a society with a mission.

Novel Functions of ErbB4 and NRG-1 in Development and Cancer

Cells communicate, or signal, with each other constantly to ensure proper functioning of tissues and organs. Cell signaling is often performed by interplay of receptors and ligands that bind these receptors. ErbB receptors (epidermal growth factor receptors, EGFR, HER) bind extracellular growth factors and transduce these signals inside of cells. ErbB dysfunction promotes carcinogenesis, and also results in numerous defects during normal development. This study focused on the functions of one member of the ErbB receptor family, ErbB4, and growth factor, neuregulin-1 (NRG-1), that can bind and activate ErbB4. This study aimed to find novel functions of ErbB4 and NRG-1. Hypoxia, or deficiency of oxygen, is common in cancer and ischemic conditions. One of the key findings of the work was the identification and characterization of a cross-talk between ErbB4 and Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), the central mediator of hypoxia signaling. ErbB4 activation by NRG-1 was found to increase HIF-1α activity. Interestingly, this regulation occurred in reciprocal manner as HIF-1α was also able to increase protein levels of NRG-1 and ErbB4. Moreover, expression of NRG-1 and ErbB4 was associated with HIF activity in vivo in human clinical samples and in mice. Reduction of functional ErbB4 in developing zebrafish embryos resulted in defects in development of the skeletal muscles. To study ErbB4 functions in pathological situation in humans, clinical samples of serous ovarian carcinoma were analyzed using tissue microarrays and real-time RT-PCR. A specific isoform of ErbB4, CYT-1, was associated with poor survival in serous ovarian cancer and increased anchorage independent growth of ovarian cancer cells in vitro. These observations demonstrate that ErbB4 and NRG-1 are essential regulators of cellular response to hypoxia, of development, and of ovarian carcinogenesis.

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