What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed?
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What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed? Teemu Manninen & Vinski Veijola University of Jyväskylä Contact information: [email protected] & [email protected]
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What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed?. Teemu Manninen & Vinski Veijola University of Jyväskylä Contact information: [email protected] & [email protected]. About Presumptions. Usually based on weak grounds e.g. a single case or story or hear-say. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed?
Teemu Manninen & Vinski VeijolaUniversity of Jyväskylä
Contact information:[email protected] & [email protected]
About PresumptionsUsually based on weak grounds e.g. a single
case or story or hear-say. “I heard my friend was robbed by a black
fellow, DAMN ALL IMMIGRANTS!” Used to understand things.
Teemu´s ResearchHow does the expectations for voluntary
work differ from the reality? – An auto-ethnography of a finnish volunteer in Thailand
Teemu´s ResearchUsing auto-ethnography I studied my diary
and gathered notes that included depiction of the work tasks I did
Then I compared the diary notes to the expectations I had and made two charts. One that shows the number of work tasks that were as I had expected. In the other chart I showed the number of work tasks that included activities with the children
Teemu´s ResearchI came to conclusion that the work tasks
included much more office work than working ‘in the field’ than I had expected and most of the work (74%) I did was different than I had expected.
Forty-three (out of 104) work tasks included some activities with the children according to the diary notes (41%)
Vinski´s ResearchHow does the general population of Finland
view Social Work as a profession and is it still affiliated with money distribution?
Proving that there is a misconcpetion in the purpose of social work.
Analysing means to change this misconception.
By increasing the awerness of social works more important social purposes – the appreciation of the profession could be set to a more esteemed level.
Vinski´s ResearchSocial work is still strongly linked with
money distribution, and its other more important purposes are unknown to the public.
By publicly moving income support to KELA, this misconception could start to change.
Increased appreciation of social work would boost the morale of social workers and dissipate the clienteles stigma.
Can presumptions be changedYes they can!
The Irrationality of PresumptionsSometimes presumptions can be based on
very weak grounds.E.g. Superfood and Truefinns.
How can presumptions be changedProviding factual information on the topic via
newspapers, television, radio and other medium.
Problem is to get the people to be interested about the topics.
Usually the presumptions that should be changed (e.g. racism) are the most difficult to alter.
We believe that changing fundamental presumptions takes a lot of time, but can be achieved.
What benefits could presumption changing offer?For example: in social work it can increase
the public appreciation. In voluntary work: There could be more
volunteers and the ones thinking of volunteering could find the courage to volunteer. The volunteers would know what to expect and that would help them to orientate for the job before actually working
What presumptions affect your life? How do you think they could be changed?
