A project About Enhancing Asylum Seekers` Everyday Cooking Skills by the Martha Organization
Wilson-Hangasmaa, Julia (2017)
Wilson-Hangasmaa, Julia
Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201705025936
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201705025936
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This project orientated thesis focused on cooking skills taught to male Iraqi asy-lum seekers residing at a Reception Centre. Diak, Helsinki, spring 2017 59 pages, 8 Appendices. Language: English. Diaconia University of Applied Sci-ences. Focus on community development. Degree Programme in Social Ser-vices. Bachelor of Social Services.
The purpose of this thesis is to provide The Martha Organization better tech-niques and methods for teaching non- Finnish speakers. The thesis seeks to establish the extent of success or failure of The Martha Organization principles of teaching practical cooking skills in the absence of a common language. The ultimate goal is to provide The Martha Organization with concrete tools of im-proving its teaching techniques. This thesis was conducted in collaboration with The Martha Organization, a Finnish home economics non-governmental umbrella organization that promotes well-being and quality of life in the home and carries out cultural and civic education and does advocacy work in Fin-land.
Ethnography and participatory methods were used for collecting data during the project. Other methods such as, interviewing and word clouds, drawing though incorporated were only used to establish background information. The project was implemented in 2016, in cooperation with a Martha branch, its vol-unteers, a Reception Centre and 8 male Iraq asylum seekers, who lacked cook-ing skills. My recommendation that concepts, terms and techniques are demonstrated during cooking skills´ lessons were acceded to and would be implemented in future courses aimed at non Finnish language speaking target groups. Terms such as asylum seeker, participant, learner, target group, bene-ficiary and resident were used to contextual the asylum seekers´ interchange-able roles.
Key concepts: asylum seekers, Iraqi males, social inclusion, everyday teaching cooking skills, common language, cultural differences, ethnocentrism.
The purpose of this thesis is to provide The Martha Organization better tech-niques and methods for teaching non- Finnish speakers. The thesis seeks to establish the extent of success or failure of The Martha Organization principles of teaching practical cooking skills in the absence of a common language. The ultimate goal is to provide The Martha Organization with concrete tools of im-proving its teaching techniques. This thesis was conducted in collaboration with The Martha Organization, a Finnish home economics non-governmental umbrella organization that promotes well-being and quality of life in the home and carries out cultural and civic education and does advocacy work in Fin-land.
Ethnography and participatory methods were used for collecting data during the project. Other methods such as, interviewing and word clouds, drawing though incorporated were only used to establish background information. The project was implemented in 2016, in cooperation with a Martha branch, its vol-unteers, a Reception Centre and 8 male Iraq asylum seekers, who lacked cook-ing skills. My recommendation that concepts, terms and techniques are demonstrated during cooking skills´ lessons were acceded to and would be implemented in future courses aimed at non Finnish language speaking target groups. Terms such as asylum seeker, participant, learner, target group, bene-ficiary and resident were used to contextual the asylum seekers´ interchange-able roles.
Key concepts: asylum seekers, Iraqi males, social inclusion, everyday teaching cooking skills, common language, cultural differences, ethnocentrism.