Study title

EduMAP: Interviews with Adult Education Policy-Makers and Personnel on the Social Exclusion of Young Adults 2017: Finland

Dataset ID Number

FSD3295

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3295

Data Type

Qualitative

Authors

• University of Tampere. School of Education
• Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV International)
• Tallinn University
• The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• University of Szeged
• Loughborough University London
• Social Sciences University of Ankara
• University College London

Abstract

This dataset includes interviews with educational personnel and policy-makers in the adult education sector in Finland working with vulnerable young adults. The interviews discuss contents of study programmes provided by the organisation, pedagogical approaches, gender equality, life management, social problems, socioeconomic status, and active participatory citizenship. The dataset is a ten-interview sample of the interviews collected in Finland for the Europe-wide EduMAP project (Adult Education as a Means to Active Participatory Citizenship). FSD's holdings also include data collected in the nine other EduMAP countries in their respective languages (the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, Romania, Latvia, Hungary, Greece, Germany and Estonia).

Different interview schemes were used for interviews with educational personnel and educational authorities. In the interviews with educational personnel, the first questions concerned the interviewee's job responsibilities, practices in the organisation, and the types of vulnerable learners with whom the interviewee worked. Teaching practices were discussed as well as special education available at the organisation, the students' economic situation, and the concept of active participatory citizenship. Regarding the organisation's practices, the interviewees were asked about, for instance, the work processes for designing new educational programmes, pedagogical approaches, and learning/teaching methods that they had deemed particularly appropriate for vulnerable learners. Many facets of the organisation's practices were discussed in terms of gender, i.e. how possible gender differences were taken into consideration in teaching.

Pedagogical details of the programmes were discussed in more detail with regard to, for instance, learning and teaching methods, contents of lessons, teaching processes, and the students' possibility of giving and receiving feedback. The interviewees were also asked what types of competences educational professionals working with vulnerable learners possess or should possess.

Finally, the interviews examined the impact of the programmes from socioeconomic and sociocultural perspectives as well as the perspective of social activity and legal-political awareness. Attendance and graduation rates were also charted as well as suggestions for the improvement of the programmes. The final questions concerned collaboration and networking with other institutions.

The interviews with educational authorities and policy-makers focused more on the national influence in educational policy, i.e. developing and implementing policies and legislation regarding vulnerable groups. In addition, these interviews discussed e.g. consulting representatives of vulnerable groups in developing policies, achievements and shortcomings of current educational policies, and the most important issues faced by vulnerable groups that should be taken into consideration in developing policies.

Background information includes interview date, id, interviewee gender and occupation.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Keywords

adult education; adults; disadvantaged groups; equality between the sexes; immigrants; social exclusion; social problems; social skills; socio-economic indicators; socio-economic status; special needs education; teaching; vocational education

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Equality, inequality and social exclusion (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Vocational education and training (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Data Collector

• Hyytiä, Jaakko (University of Tampere. School of Education)
• Kuusipalo, Paula (University of Tampere. School of Education)
• Niiranen, Kaisa (University of Tampere. School of Education)
• Koskela, Marja (University of Tampere. School of Education)

Funders

• European Commission's Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding programme (693388)

Time Period Covered

2017

Collection Dates

2017-05 – 2017-12

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Educational authorities and educational personnel in the Finnish adult education sector

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

The interviewees were chosen from within vocational education networks. After initial contact with the organisations, suitable participants were recruited from each organisation. Some participants worked with VALMA preparatory education for vocational training. Of all conducted interviews, ten were chosen to be archived at FSD. Nine of these interviews were with educational personnel and one with an educational policy-maker. Educational personnel in the archived data represent four different organisations. In total, 33 interviews were conducted with educational personnel and nine with educational policy-makers.

Collection Mode

Face-to-face interview

Telephone interview

Research Instrument

Interview scheme and/or themes

Data Files

10 TXT files whose length vary between approx. 10-20 A4 pages. In addition, an HTML index was formed from the TXT files.

Data File Language

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

Qualitative data are available in their original language only and are not translated.

Data Version

1.0

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Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The researchers anonymised the data. The anonymisation was checked at FSD, and some identifiers were also removed during the archiving process. To prevent identification of interviewees, the following types of identifiers were removed: all direct mentions of the interviewees' or third persons' names or other direct identifiers, and indirect identifiers, such as place names, detailed job descriptions or educational information. Removed identifiers were marked with [square brackets].

The Finnish interview scheme is a summary of the English interview scheme that can also be found as an appendix.

Of the 42 interviews collected for the project in Finland, ten were archived at FSD.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

University of Tampere & Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV International) & Tallinn University & The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & University of Szeged & Loughborough University London & Social Sciences University of Ankara & University College London: EduMAP: Interviews with Adult Education Policy-Makers and Personnel on the Social Exclusion of Young Adults 2017: Finland [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2018-10-11). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3295

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

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