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The aim of this study was to examine community and individual approaches in responses to mass violence after the school shooting incidents in Jokela (November 2007) and Kauhajoki (September 2008), Finland. In considering ...

Citizen participation in urban planning has been a topic of academic and practical interest since the 1960s. The adoption of information and communication technologies for civic participation, electronic participation, ...

In this thesis I argue that the psychological study of concepts and categorisation, and the philosophical study of reference are deeply intertwined. I propose that semantic intuitions are a variety of categorisation ...

Guided by the social-ecological conceptualization of bullying, this thesis examines the implications of classroom and school contexts—that is, students’ shared microsystems—for peer-to-peer bullying and antibullying ...

Tiedonhaku ja tiedonhallinta ovat olennainen osa jokapäiväistä elämää nykyajan informaatioyhteiskunnassa. Taitoja löytää, arvioida ja järjestää digitaalista informaatiota tarvitaan niin työelämässä, opiskelussa kuin ...

Very preterm birth poses a long-term risk for social development. The social functioning of very preterm children has been mainly assessed by parents and teachers, although the children’s subjective experience of social ...

This research examines the ways in which the meanings of entrepreneurship have shifted in post-industrial Finland on both sides of the millennium. The meanings of entrepreneurship are examined in the following three contexts: ...

Abstract: This dissertation examines inequalities in paid domestic labour from a global comparative perspective. I approach the subject through three different layers that represent the factors identified in previous ...

This dissertation examines housing policy change from a social constructionist perspective. Two processes of housing policy change are analysed together with comparative research on European housing policies. This dissertation ...

The present dissertation examined reading development during elementary school years by means of eye movement tracking. Three different but related issues in this field were assessed. First of all, the development of ...