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Lukuharjoitukset tähtäsivät 1700-luvulla ensisijaisesti kristinopin oppimiseen, mutta lukutaito nähtiin myös yhteiskunnallisen kehityksen edellytyksenä. Ensin tarvittiin tietysti perusteellinen kirjainten ja tavauksen taito. Teologian professori Jacob Tengströmin (1755-1832) käsityksen mukaan pappien tuli huolehtia myös kasvatuksesta ja kansansivistyksestä. Hänen kasvatusnäkemyksensä perustuivat valistukseen ja filantropismiin, ja lukukirjan teksteiksi hän valitsi ja itsekin käänsi latinasta ruotsiksi faabeleita, muita kertomuksia ja mietelauseita.

Vaihtelun vähentäminen kehäpyörien kovasorvauksen vaiheajoissa

Tämän työn tarkoituksena oli selvittää miksi kohdeyrityksen erään avainkomponentin, kehäpyörän, kovasorvauksen vaiheajoissa on niin paljon vaihtelua ja kuinka sitä saataisiin vähennettyä. Samalla pyrittiin lyhentämään keskimääräisiä vaiheaikoja. Tutkimus aloitettiin tuotannon nykytilan kartoituksella, jossa selvitettiin yrityksen toimintatapoja ja tuotannon tehokkuutta heikentäviä ongelmia. Tämän jälkeen aloitettiin varsinainen kehitysprojekti, joka perustui Lean-ajatteluun. Lean-ajattelu on tuotannon kehittämiseen tähtäävä filosofia, jossa pyritään tekemään enemmän vähemmällä, poistamalla tuotannosta kaikki ylimääräinen arvoa lisäämätön toiminta. Tuotantoon pyritään saamaan aikaiseksi tuotteiden jatkuva virtaus tuotantoa tahdistamalla. Erinomaisuutta tavoitellaan jatkuvalla parantamisella. Kohdeyrityksen tuotannon ongelmien tarkemmaksi selvittämiseksi toteutettiin erilaisia seurantoja, niin paikan päällä tuotannossa, kuin automaattista tiedonkeruuohjelmistoa hyväksi käyttäen. Seurantojen tuloksena selvisi, että pääsyyt tuotannon vaiheaikojen vaihteluun löytyvät teknisen järjestelmän sijaan ihmisten asenteista ja osaamisesta. Kun kehitystyön tuloksena toteutetaan muutoksia, kohdataan usein muutosvastarintaa. Tällöin tarvitaan tehokasta muutosjohtamista. Muutostyössä on tärkeä hallita tietoa sen jakamisen lisäksi myös sen keräämisessä. Muutoksiin johtavan tiedon tulee olla aina relevanttia ja faktapohjaista. Muutosjohtamisen tavoitteena on saada aikaiseksi tietoa luova organisaatio, joka kestää itsekritiikkiä ja jolla on poisoppimisen taito. Työsuoritusten parantamiseksi toteutettiin pilottihanke, jossa testattiin tässä työssä kehitettyä palautejärjestelmää. Palaute perustui automaattisen tiedonkeruuohjelmiston keräämään dataan. Samalla selvitettiin työtä hidastaneita ongelmia yhteistyössä työntekijöiden kanssa. Pilottihankkeen tulokset ovat lupaavia, sillä seurannassa olleen kehäpyörämallin viikoittaisten vaiheaikojen keskiarvo laski 32,6 % ja kehäpyörän puolikkaiden kovasorvauksen vaiheaikojen vaihtelut vähenivät 18,1 ja 26,8 %. Tämän tutkimuksen tulosten perusteella päivittäisten työmäärien tarkempaa seurantaa kannattaa jatkaa ja palautejärjestelmää kehittää edelleen.

Saako historiasta selvää? Monikulttuuriset yläkoululaiset historian lähteillä historian taidot motiivien, seurauksien, historian tulkintojen ja lähteiden luotettavuuden arvioinneissa

The research assesses the skills of upper comprehensive school pupils in history. The focus is on locating personal motives, assessing wider reasons hidden in historical sources and evaluating source reliability. The research also questions how a wide use of multiple sources affects pupils’ holistic understanding of historical phenomena. The participants were a multicultural group of pupils. The origins of their cultures can be traced to the Balkan, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The number of native Finnish speakers and pupils speaking Finnish as their second language was almost equal. The multicultural composition provides opportunities to assess how culturally responsive learning history from sources is. The intercultural approach to learning in a multicultural setting emphasizes equality as a precondition for learning. In order to set assignments at least to some extent match with all participants only those answers were taken into account which were produced by pupils who had studied history for a similar period of time in the Finnish comprehensive school system. Due to the small number of participants (41), the study avoids wide generalizations. Nevertheless, possible cultural blueprints in pupils’ way of thinking are noted. The first test examined the skills of pupils to find motives for emigration. The results showed that for 7th graders finding reasons is not a problematic task. However, the number of reasons noticed and justifications varied. In addition, the way the pupils explained their choices was a distinguishing factor. Some pupils interpreted source material making use of previous knowledge on the issue, while other pupils based their analysis solely on the text handed and did not try to add their own knowledge. Answers were divided into three categories: historical, explanatory and stating. Historical answers combined smoothly previously learned historical knowledge to one’s own source analysis; explanatory answers often ignored a wider frame, although they were effective when explaining e.g. historical concepts. The stating answers only noticed motives from the sources and made no attempts to explain them historically. Was the first test culturally responsive? All pupils representing different cultures tackled the first source exam successfully, but there were some signs of how historical concepts are understood in a slightly different way if the pupil’s personal history has no linkage to the concepts under scrutiny. The second test focused on the history of Native Americans. The test first required pupils to recognize whether short source extracts (5) were written by Indians or Caucasians. Based on what they had already learned from North American history, the pupils did not find it hard to distinguish between the sources. The analysis of multiphase causes and consequences of the disputes between Native Americans and white Americans caused dispersion among pupils. Using two historical sources and combining historical knowledge from both of them simultaneously was cumbersome for many. The explanations of consequences can be divided into two groups: the ones emphasizing short term consequences and those placing emphasis on long term consequences. The short term approach was mainly followed by boys in every group. The girls mainly paid attention to long term consequences. The result suggests that historical knowledge in sources is at least to some extent read through role and gender lenses. The third test required pupils to explain in their own words how the three sources given differed in their account of living conditions in Nazi Germany, which turned out to be demanding for many pupils. The pupils’ stronghold was rather the assessment of source reliability and accounts why the sources approached the same events differently. All participants wrote critical and justified comments on reliability and aspects that might have affected the content of the sources. The pupils felt that the main reasons that affected source reliability were the authors’ ethnic background, nationality and profession. The assessment showed that pupils were well aware that position in a historical situation has an impact on historical accounts, but in certain cases the victim’s account was seen as a historical truth. The account of events by a historian was chosen most often as the most reliable source, but it was often justified leniently with an indication to professionalism rather than with clear ideas of how historians conduct accounts based on sources. In brief, the last source test demonstrates that pupils have a strong idea that the ethnicity or nationalism determines how people explained events of the past. It is also an implication that pupils understand how historical knowledge is interpretative. The results also imply that history can be analyzed from a neutral perspective. One’s own membership in an ethnical or religious group does not automatically mean that a person’s cultural identity excludes historical explanations if something in them contradicts with his or her identity. The second method of extracting knowledge of pupils’ historical thinking was an essay analysis. The analysis shows that an analytical account of complicated political issues, which often include a great number of complicated political concepts, leads more likely to an inconsistent structure in the written work of pupils. The material also demonstrates that pupils have a strong tendency to take a critical stance when assessing history. Historical empathy in particular is shown if history somehow has a linkage to young people, children or minorities. Some topics can also awake strong feelings, especially among pupils with emigrant background, if there is a linkage between one’s own personal history and that of the school; and occasionally a student’s historical experience or thoughts replaced school history. Using sources during history lessons at school seems to have many advantages. It enhances the reasoning skills of pupils and their skills to assess the nature of historical knowledge. Thus one of the main aims and a great benefit of source work is to encourage pupils to express their own ideas and opinions. To conclude, when assessing the skills of adolescents in history - their work with sources, comments on history, historical knowledge and finally their historical thinking - one should be cautious and avoid cut off score evaluations. One purpose of pursuing history with sources is to encourage pupils to think independently, which is a useful tool for further identity construction. The idea that pupils have the right to conduct their own interpretations of history can be partially understood as part of a wider learning process, justification to study history comes from extrinsic reasons. The intrinsic reason is history itself; in order to understand history one should have a basic understanding of history as a specific domain of knowledge. Using sources does not mean that knowing history is of secondary importance. Only a balance between knowing the contextual history, understanding basic key concepts and working with sources is a solid base to improve pupils’ historical understanding.

Taitava keittiönaisten kansa

Kirja-arvio

Kiinalaista strategiaoppia

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Syvällinen tapaustutkimusopas

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Tapauksena tapaustutkimus

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Verenpaineen mittaamisen opettaminen sairaanhoitaja- ja terveydenhoitajaopiskelijoille

Teaching the measurement of blood pressure for both nursing and public health nursing students The purpose of this two-phase study was to develop the teaching of blood pressure measurement within the nursing degree programmes of the Universities of Applied Sciences. The first survey phase described what and how blood pressure measurement was taught within nursing degree programmes. The second intervention phase (2004-2005) evaluated first academic year nursing and public health nursing students’ knowledge and skills results for blood pressure measurement. Additionally, the effect on the Taitoviikko experimental group students’ blood pressure measurement knowledge and skills level. A further objective was to construct models for an instrument (RRmittTest) to evaluate nursing students measurement of blood pressure (2003-2009). The research data for the survey phase were collected from teachers (total sampling, N=107, response rate 77%) using a specially developed RRmittopetus-questionnaire. Quasi-experimental study data on the RRmittTest-instrument was collected from students (purposive sampling, experimental group, n=29, control group, n=44). The RRmittTest consisted of a test of knowledge (Tietotesti) and simulation-based test (TaitoSimkäsi and Taitovideo) of skills. Measurements were made immediately after the teaching and in clinical practice. Statistical methods were used to analyse the results and responses to open-ended questions were organised and classified. Due to the small amount of materials involved and the results of distribution tests of the variables, non-parametric analytic methods were mainly used. Experimental group and control group similar knowledge and skills teaching was based on the results of the national survey phase (RRmittopetus) questionnaire results. Experimental group teaching includes the supervised Taitoviikko teaching method. During Taitoviikko students studied blood pressure measurement at the municipal hospital in a real nursing environment, guided by a teacher and a clinical nursing professional. In order to evaluate both learning and teaching the processes and components of blood pressure measurement were clearly defined as follows: the reliability of measurement instruments, activities preceding blood pressure measurement, technical execution of the measurement, recording, lifestyle guidance and measurement at home (self-monitoring). According to the survey study, blood pressure measurement is most often taught at Universities of Applied Sciences, separately, as knowledge (teaching of theory, 2 hours) and skills (classroom practice, 4 hours). The teaching was implemented largely in a classroom and was based mainly on a textbook. In the intervention phase the students had good knowledge of blood pressure measurement. However, their blood pressure measurement skills were deficient and the control group students, in particular, were highly deficient. Following in clinical practice the experimental group and control group students’ blood pressure measurement recording knowledge improve and experimental groups declined lifestyle guidance. Skills did not improve within any of the components analysed. The control groups` skills on the whole, declined statistically.There was a significant decline amongst the experimental group although only in one component measured. The results describe the learning results for first academic year students and no parallel conclusions should be drawn when considering any learning results for graduating students. The results support the use and further development of the Taitoviiko teaching method. The RRmittTest developed for the study should be assessed and the results seen from a negative perspective. This evaluation tool needs to be developed and retested.

Keittiönaisten kansa

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Halpamaisen väittelijän käsikirja

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Tapauksia tapaustutkimuksesta

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Nurse-led interpersonal counselling for depressive symptoms in patients with myocardial infarction

The broad interest of this intervention study is in two worldwide remarkable diseases, myocardial infarction and depression. The purpose of the 18-month follow-up study was to evaluate the outcomes of interpersonal counselling implemented by a psychiatric nurse, and to examine the recovery experienced by the patients after myocardial infarction. The interpersonal counseling consisted of a short-term (max 6 sessions) depression-focused intervention modified for myocardial infarction patients. The main principle of interpersonal counselling is that depressive symptoms relate to interpersonal relations. The measured outcomes of the intervention consisted of changes in depressive symptoms and distress, health-related quality of life and the use of health care services. The data consisted of 103 patients with acute myocardial infarction and with sufficient knowledge of Finnish language, and they were randomized into intervention group (n=51) and control group (n=52) with standard care. Depressive symptoms were measured using Beck Depression Inventory, and distress using Symptom Checklist-25. The instrument to measure health-related quality of life was EuroQol-5 Dimensions. All instruments were used at three measurements: in hospital, at 6 months and at 18 months after hospital discharge. The Use of Health Care Services questionnaire was used during the 6- and 18-month period after hospital discharge. In addition, satisfaction with the intervention and with information received from the health-care professional was evaluated during the follow-up. To examine recovery, the patients kept diaries during a 6-month period and they were interviewed at 18 months after myocardial infarction. The number of patients with depressive symptoms decreased significantly more in the intervention group compared with the control group during 18 months of follow-up. Distress decreased significantly more among patients under 60 years in the intervention group than in the control group, but the difference was not significant between the groups. No differences in the changes of health-related quality of life were found between the groups during follow-up. However, in the group of patients under 60 years, the improvement of health-related quality of life in the intervention was significantly better in the intervention group compared with the control group during the follow-up. During the follow-up period, there was even a decline in the use of somatic specialized health care services in the intervention group and among intervention patients who had no other long-term disease. Considering recovery experienced by the patients, main categories including many supporting and inhibiting factors and subcategories were identified: clinical and physical, psychological, social, functional and professional category. No differences between the groups were found in satisfaction with information received from the professionals. The brief and easy-to-learn intervention, with which the patients were satisfied, seems to decrease depressive symptoms after myocardial infarction. Interpersonal counselling seems to be beneficial especially with younger patients. These results justify adopting depression screening and interpersonal counselling as part of routine care after myocardial infarction. The first stage evaluation of the use of health care services is interesting, and calls for more studies. From the perspective of individual patients, recovery after myocardial infarction seems to consist of many supporting and inhibiting factors. This is something that is important to take into account in developing nursing practice. The results indicate a need for further studies in outcomes of interpersonal counselling and recovery experienced by the patients after myocardial infarction. In addition, the results encourage widening the research perspective to nursing administration and educational level.

Opetussuunnitelman vaikutus merivalvontakoulutukseen merivoimien reserviupseerikurssilla

Puolustusvoimien johtamiskulttuuri ja sotilaspedagoginen oppimis- ja kasvatuskulttuuri ovat muuttuneet 2000-luvun yhteiskuntaan soveltuviksi, siinä jokainen ihminen on oppiva yksilö. Reserviupseerikurssin opetuksessa on käytössä sotilaspedagoginen tieto ja taito. Kouluttajat ovat sitoutuneita noudattamaan ja toteuttamaan puolus-tusvoimien oppivanorganisaation periaatteita. Oppimiskäsityksiä ja opetusmenetelmiä on tutkittu puolustusvoimissa paljon, mutta opetuksen suunnittelua eli opetussuunnitelmia ja niiden vaikuttavuutta ei laajemmin ole tarkasteltu tieteellisestä näkö-kulmasta. Tässä tutkimuksessa reserviupseerikurssin opetussuunnitelman vaikuttavuutta merivalvontaopetukseen on tutkittu kouluttajien ja upseerikokelaiden antamien käsityksien kautta. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli ymmärtää kouluttajien käsityksiä opetussuunnitelman ja merivalvontakoulutuksen yhteydestä toisiinsa, ja mikä merkitys on opetussuunnitelmalla oppijan oppimistavoitteiden osalta. Opetussuunnitelmaa lähestyttiin teoreetti-sen viitekehyksen avulla, jossa tutkittavaa ilmiötä lähestytään kolmen tason kautta; teoreettinen taso, opetussuunnitelman taso ja empirian taso, jossa kaiken tutkimuk-sen ytimenä on merivalvontaopetus opetussuunnitelmasta. Tutkimuskysymykset ovat; ”Mitkä ovat reserviupseerikurssin vuonna 2005 - 2006 suorittaneiden upseerikokelaiden käsitykset merivalvontaopetuksesta, opetusmenetelmistä ja vuoden 2003 opetussuunnitelmasta ja mitkä ovat tulenjohto-opintosuunnan upseerikokelaiden esimiesten käsitykset reserviupseerikurssin opetussuunnitelmasta ja sen tavoitteista merivalvontaopetuksen osalta? Opetussuunnitelman vaikuttavuus merivalvontakoulutukseen muodostui tutkimuksen pääteemaksi, mutta sen sisälle mahtui pienempiä alateemoja. Tutkimusmenetelmäksi valitsin fenomenografian. Tutkimuksen kohdejoukoksi valittiin reserviupseerikurssin tulenjohto-opintosuunnan suorittaneet upseerikokelaat vuosien 2005–2006 aikana sekä heidän esimiehet ja kouluttajat joukko-yksiköistä. Tutkimushenkilöitä oli 50 upseerikokelasta ja 5 upseeria ja 2 opistoupseeria. Upseerikokelailta kerättiin lomakekyselyllä vastauksia merivalvontaopetukseen liittyviin väittämiin. Kouluttajilta kerättiin empiiristä aineistoa avoimella tekstikyselyllä ja teemahaastattelulla. Tutkimustulokset esitettiin jäsennettyinä ja ryhmiteltyinä fenomenografisiin merkityskategorioihin, jotka edustivat upseerikokelaiden ja kouluttajien käsityksiä opetus-suunnitelman vaikuttavuudesta merivalvontaopetukseen. Johtopäätöksen perusteella voidaan todeta, että reserviupseerikurssin nykyisellä opetussuunnitelmalla ei ole vaikutusta merivalvontaopetukseen. Tutkimus nosti esille tarpeen tarkastaa ja kehittää opetussuunnitelmaa merivalvontakoulutuksen osalta. Uhkakuvien muutos ja uudet merivoimien liikkuvat organisaatiot tarvitsevat reservinjohtajia, joiden reserviupseerikoulutus on hyvin ja tarkoituksen mukaisesti suunniteltu. Myös reserviupseeriosaston organisaatiota koulutuslinjojen osalta on tarkennettava, jotta niillä voidaan vastata joukko-yksiköiden joukkotuotanto tehtäviin. Upseeri-kokelaiden tiedollinen ja taidollinen osaaminen nousi keskeiseksi analyysiksi tutkimuksessa. Yhteenvetona voidaan todeta, että opetussuunnitelma ei vaikuta opetukseen meri-valvontakoulutuksessa, jolloin se heijastaa oppijan motivaatioon opiskella ja koko-naisvaltaiseen oppimisprosessiin.