103 research outputs found
Examining the cause of high inbreeding depression: analysis of whole-genome sequence data in 28 selfed progeny of Eucalyptus grandis.
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Questions and answers … but no reasoning!
No full textStatistical reasoning has often been used synonymously with statistical thinking. In this paper, we focus on the reasoning part and we analyse mathematic lessons about statistics in a primary school class, using a construct from the Anthropological Theory of Didactics approach, called Study and Research Paths. By comparing the a priori tree-diagram of the course with the a posteriori treediagram of the observed teaching, it becomes clear that the teacher’s questions never make the students engage in statistical reasoning and the students’ questions are more concerned with practical and organizational issues than with obtaining a greater understanding of statistical reasoning
Transitional Justice, Gender Programming, and the UNSCR 1325: African Context and the Case of Kenya
No full textThe article examines the implementation of UNSCR 1325 ‘Women, Peace, and Security’ within the framework of post-colonial feminism. The author argues that in current international development co-operation, there is a need for deeper understanding of the complex, context-relevant social and political power structures and processes that prevent gender programming from enhancing gender justice. As an empirical case study the article discusses the challenges that the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 has been facing in Kenya.</p
Semipermeable membrane – An artistic research on hiking, camping and the human-nature relationship
No full textTämä maisterin opinnäytetyö on taiteellinen tutkimus retkeilystä ja luontosuhteesta. Se on saanut alkunsa perinteisesssä ja sosiaalisessa mediassa näkyvien retkeilyaiheisten kuvien ja tekijän omien retkeilykokemusten välisestä ristiriidasta. Opinnäytetyössään tekijä kokoaa erilaiset retkeilykuvat retkeilykuvasto-käsitteen alle ja tutkii retkeilykokemusten ja retkeilykuvien suhdetta käyttämällä omia retkeilykokemuksiaan taiteellisen työskentelyn materiaalina.
Viime vuosien aikana retkeilyn ja ulkoilmaharrastusten suosio on kasvanut huomattavasti. Lisääntynyt retkeily aiheuttaa ympäristölle epäsuotuisia lieveilmiöitä, joiden vaikutukset kohdistuvat aineelliseeen ympäristöön, retkeilykulttuuriin ja muihin retkeilykokemuksen synnyttäviin tekijöihin. Tekijä esittää retkeilykuvaston osaltaan vaikuttavan retkeilykulttuurin muotoutumiseen. Retkeilykuvat liittyvät erilaisiin luontosuhteisiin, jotka ilmenevät retkeilyssä ja jokapäiväisessä toiminnassa. Luontosuhdetta ja retkeilyä käsitelltiin opinnäytetyössä ympäristötieteilijöiden Risto Willamon ja Yrjö Hailan ajatuksiin tukeutuen.
Opinnäytetyön menetelmänä on tekijän oma taiteellinen praktiikka. Tekijä maalasi puolen vuoden aikana noin 50 teosta samalla kirjoittaen työskentelystään ja siihen liittyvästä ajattelustaan. Opinnäytetyön tutkimusosuus on taiteellisen työskentelyn lopuksi laadittu kuvien ja kaunokirjallisen tekstin muodostama narratiivi taiteellisesta prosessista, jossa tekijä tutki ensisijaisesti omaa ajatteluaan ja luontosuhdettaan kuvallisen työskentelyn avulla. Taiteellisen työskentelyn keskiössä olivat tekijän omat retkeilykokemukset, joita hän prosessin aikana tarkasteli keholllisina ja aistisina kokemuksina sekä suhteuttaen visuaalista ajatteluaan aiempaan retkeilykuvastoon ja retkeilyn visuaaliseen kulttuuriin.
Taiteellisen työskentelyn tulokset painottuvat ensisijaisesti ajatteluun ja tekijän taiteellisten käytäntöjen kehittämiseen, ja ne esitellään opinnäytetyössä ilman teoksista järjestettyä näyttelyä. Tutkielman tuloksena syntyi pohdintaa erityisesti kliseiden ja autenttisuuden sekä objektiivisen havainnon ja subjektiivisen tulkinnan suhteista kuvallisessa ilmaisussa. Opinnäytteessä pohditaan tekijän praktiikan ja opinnäytetyön tuottaman ajattelun pedagogisia mahdollisuuksia taiteen perusopetuksessa.This Master’s thesis is an artistic research on nature, camping and human-nature relationships. It has been motivated by the dissonance between the outdoor-themed images in traditional and social media and the author’s personal experiences of outdoor activities. The author defines a concept of outdoor imagery that covers the different kinds of outdoor-themed images and he studies the relationships between outdoor experiences and the outdoor imagery using his personal experiences of hiking, camping and nature excursions as the material for artistic work.
Over the last years the popularity of hiking and other outdoor activities has increased noticeably. The increase in outdoor activities has caused unwanted side effects in the environment, the cultures of outdoor activities and the other factors of outdoor experiences. The author suggests that the outdoor imagery in part shapes the cultures of outdoor activities. The outdoor-themed images are linked to different kinds of human-nature relationships that manifest in the outdoor activities and the everyday life. In the thesis the human-nature relationships and the outdoor activities were discussed supported by the ideas of the environmental scientists Risto Willamo and Yrjö Haila.
The methodology of the thesis was built on the artistic praxis of the author. The author painted about 50 paintings over a half-year period while also writing about the artistic process and the artistic thinking involved in it. The research section of the thesis is a narrative consisting of literal and visual elements where the author studies primarily his thinking and his relationship with nature through his artistic work. The artistic work focused on the author’s personal outdoor experiences by representing them as corporeal and sensual experiences and by studying his visual thinking in relation to the existing outdoor imagery and the visual cultures of outdoor activities.
The artistic work produced results in the thinking and the development of artistic praxis of the author. The results are presented in the thesis without a presenting the artworks created over the research process in an exhibition. The research process generated discussion concerning the relationships between cliches and authenticity as well as between the objective observation and the subjective interpretation in visual expression. The pedagogical applications of the artistic praxis of the author and the thinking produced by the research process are discussed in the thesis
Afro-libertarianism and The Social Contract Framework in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Post-2007 Elections Kenya
No full textThis paper examines the shortcomings and possibilities of the social contract approach in relation to the Kenyan post 2007 elections political crisis. The author applies philosophical analysis to a practical situation, using Kenya as a case study in
the context of the challenges of post-colonial nation-building. The author reflects on the “Afro-libertarian” politico-economic framework, in which communitarian and communal traditions with egoistic and profit-making individualist libertarian market
rationality are tangled in a fragile, patrimonial state, with strong sub-national loyalties preventing the building of a united nation and a strong state. The thesis of the paper is that if sustainable peace, social reconstruction and national unity are to be achieved, there is need to have an adequate understanding of the moral dimensions of the concept of “social justice”. The focus has to be on the building of an impartial state, with a clear national agenda and strong ethnically and politically neutral institutions and processes
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