Opinnollistaminen nuorten työpajan ekspansiivisena toimintakonseptina ja yhteistyöverkoston haasteena

Abstract

The article examines studification as a new concept for youth workshops, alongside their traditional re-habilitation activities. The model was developed in a series of projects and considered beneficial. The consolidation of the new concept, however, is only progressing slowly, and we are asking why. The re-search data consists of interviews with employees at the youth workshop and the hosting educational in-stitution, and with other members of the service net-work. In the framework of the cultural-historical ac-tivity theory, we first analyzed the expansive solutions described by the interviewees. Secondly, we studied the types of problems hindering the consolidation of the studification concept. In the results, we mod-eled studification as an expansive activity concept and showed that consolidating it as a part of the youth workshop’s activities will require dealing with a wide range of social and educational policy boundary con-ditions. In addition, a sustainable expansive activity re-quires continuous re-creation instead of project-based development only.