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What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed?

What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed?. Teemu Manninen & Vinski Veijola University of Jyväskylä Contact information: vinskiv@gmail.com & teemu.s.manninen@jyu.fi. About Presumptions. Usually based on weak grounds e.g. a single case or story or hear-say.

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What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed?

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  1. What Are Presumptions and Can They Be Changed? TeemuManninen & VinskiVeijola University of Jyväskylä Contact information: vinskiv@gmail.com & teemu.s.manninen@jyu.fi

  2. About Presumptions • Usually 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.

  3. Teemu´s Research • Howdoes the expectations for voluntaryworkdifferfrom the reality? – An auto-ethnography of a finnishvolunteer in Thailand

  4. Teemu´sResearch • Usingauto-ethnography I studied my diary and gatherednotesthatincludeddepiction of the worktasks I did • Then I compared the diarynotes to the expectations I hadand made twocharts. One thatshows the number of worktasksthatwere as I hadexpected. In the otherchart I showed the number of worktasksthatincludedactivitieswith the children

  5. Teemu´sResearch • I 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%)

  6. Vinski´s Research • Howdoes the general population of Finland view Social Work as a profession and is it still affiliated with money distribution? • Provingthat there is a misconcpetion in the purpose of social work. • Analysingmeans 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.

  7. Vinski´s Research • Social 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.

  8. Can presumptions be changed • Yes they can!

  9. The Irrationality of Presumptions • Sometimes presumptions can be based on very weak grounds. • E.g. Superfoodand Truefinns.

  10. How can presumptions be changed • Providing 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.

  11. What benefits could presumption changing offer? • For example: in social work it can increase the public appreciation. • In voluntary work: Therecouldbemorevolunteers and the onesthinking of volunteeringcouldfind the courage to volunteer. The volunteerswouldknowwhat to expect and thatwould help them to orientate for the jobbeforeactuallyworking

  12. What presumptions affect your life? How do you think they could be changed?

  13. Thank you for your time! • Contact information: vinskiv@gmail.com & teemu.s.manninen@jyu.fi

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