Literacy Skills as Local Intangible Capital: The History of a Rural Lending Library c. 1860 - 1920

Kotilainen, Sofia

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“…Myöskään kirjoitustaitoa ei vielä käytetty laajamittaisesti aktiivisena osana yhteisössä toimimista muutamia paikallisia virkamiehiä tai kyläkirjureita lukuun ottamatta. 8 Suomen kielen aseman kohentuminen hallinnon ja yhteiskuntaelämän kielenä teki suomeksi kirjoittamisen taidosta aiempaa tärkeämmän. Jos kuitenkin osasi lukea ja kirjoittaa, näillä taidoilla yleensä pyrittiin edistämään yhteisöllisesti kunniallisiksi tai muuten oikeamielisiksi katsottuja asioita.…”

Section: Hyötykäyttöä Luku-ja Kirjoitustaidolleunclassified

Talviaisten rahapaja: Luku- ja kirjoitustaidon hyödyntäminen rahanväärennöstarkoituksiin 1800-luvun puolivälissä

Kotilainen¹

2022

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Luku- ja kirjoitustaito muodostivat 1800-luvun puolivälissä sekä yksilön että hänen lähiyhteisönsä näkökulmasta tärkeää aineetonta pääomaa, koska etenkin maaseudulla ne olivat harvinaisia taitoja. Niiden avulla oli mahdollista saavuttaa hitaasti karttuvaa yhteisöllistä luottamusta, rakentaa verkostoja ja saavuttaa henkilökohtaisia etuja, joista monet liittyivät myös taloudelliseen menestykseen. Näitä taitoja saattoi käyttää myös pikavoittojen hankkimiseen yhteisöllisten normien näkökulmasta kyseenalaisin keinoin, esimerkiksi väärentämällä rahaa. Kivijärveläinen Erkki Turpeinen oli taitava rahanväärentäjä, joka osasi hyödyntää luku- ja kirjoitustaitoaan omiin tarkoituksiinsa. Pohdin artikkelissani, millaista osaamista tai koulutusta rahanväärentäjänä toimiminen edellytti 1850–1870-luvulla ja miksi rikollinen elämäntapa muuttui erityisesti Erkin kohdalla lähiyhteisön hiljaisesti hyväksymäksi elämänkuluksi. Tarkastelen Erkki Turpeisen elämää mikrohistoriallisesta näkökulmasta. Fragmentaarinen lähdeaineisto osoittaa, että hän menestyi hankkeissaan, onnistui myös pakenemaan virkavaltaa jäätyään kiinni ja kykeni luomaan oman liiketoiminta-alueensa väärennöstoimeksiantojen myötä. Hänestä muotoutui vuosikymmenten aikana mediajulkisuudessa, kansanperinteessä ja yhteisön kollektiivisessa muistissa elänyt veijarihahmo, joka puijasi esivaltaa ja auttoi köyhiä pitäjäläisiä. Erkkiä pidettiin yleisesti avuliaana ja hyvätapaisena ihmisenä.

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Talviaisten rahapaja: Luku- ja kirjoitustaidon hyödyntäminen rahanväärennöstarkoituksiin 1800-luvun puolivälissä

Kotilainen¹

2022

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“…In comparison to previous studies focusing on quantitative data or making analyses on local perspectives, we used a qualitative approach and international context (Turkey and Germany). As Kotilainen (2016) mentioned it is important to study library regulars to understand how the quantitative data of the community, which library regulars are members of, are reflected locally. Such a research makes it possible to grasp the facilities and opportunities that individuals of a given community may have in learning to read and transform it into a reading culture.…”

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Users of Children Sections of Public Libraries: An International Reading Culture Research

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Demirci

2021

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This study was designed for learning the patterns of utilization of the children's sections of public libraries and understanding the functions and social elements that library users find in or bring to these sections. The study was designed as a qualitative case study for examining three public libraries (Erzincan, Essen & Niğde). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 72 children and 43 adults in 3 weeks of observation period. Findings for each of three libraries are given under the headings of quality of spaces for children, social climate, and overall picture of activities for children as the "within-case". As to the "across-case" are reached the themes; preschool children, a place like a bookstore, a place like a playground, and reading as a sub-skill for academic success. Considering the functions of libraries in years, it is necessary to involve experts, writers, teachers, and parents in the process as well.

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“…Like his daughter, he also composed occasional poetry to entertain members of his family and friends. 25 Her family had a strong influence on the young Isa getting practice in reading, writing and composing poems and stories from an early age.…”

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How to Become an Author: The Poet Isa Asp and Her Childhood Fascination with Writing for Magazines

Kotilainen

2021

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In this article the author explores the early development of the identity as a writer of a Finnish-speaking poet Lovisa (or Isa) Asp (1853–1872). She wrote her lyrics in the Finnish language in the 1870s, and she is regarded as the first 19th-century female Finnish poet (whose works were published in Finnish). She began writing poetry (initially in Swedish) as a teenager and started her literary career as a contributor to children’s magazines. Asp began her studies at the Teacher Training College in Jyväskylä in autumn 1871 with the aim of working as an elementary school teacher, but she also dreamt of becoming an established writer someday. Unfortunately, her early death meant that most of her poetry remained unpublished until the 21st century. The author investigates what kind of literature Asp read and why she was able to read extensively as a child in the remote Finnish-speaking countryside at a time when Finnish-language literature for children was scarce and still only nascent and being developed for nationalistic reasons; in those decades, most of the books and publications were still written in Swedish. The author analyses in particular the gendered experiences of reading (and writing) in the life of a young girl and woman from the countryside, because in those days most of the authors were men living in towns. A special focus of the article is on the texts that she wrote and edited for children’s magazines. The author studies her autobiographical sources using a biographical method and considers what kind of literature and libraries inspired her career as an early female poet. National poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg and poet and historian Zacharias Topelius, the major Fennoman authors, were the literary models for the young Isa Asp. Their works inspired her to write and to aspire for a career as a poet and author, an occupation that was then still rare for a woman. Writing for children’s magazines was a crucial stage in her career, and her identity as a writer was strengthened by the opportunity to have her poems and short tales published. Also, writing for these handwritten as well as published magazines made her dreams visible and encouraged her to pursue them with effort. All this shows that her development as a writer was a deliberate, goal-oriented process. The publication of her poems and obtaining the community’s approval of them were important for the young poet. The encouragement to pursue a career in writing that Isa with her literary gifts received as a child from her immediate surroundings helped her to achieve her dreams, which in the end turned out not to be impossible to realise.

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Literacy Skills as Local Intangible Capital: The History of a Rural Lending Library c. 1860 - 1920

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Talviaisten rahapaja: Luku- ja kirjoitustaidon hyödyntäminen rahanväärennöstarkoituksiin 1800-luvun puolivälissä

Talviaisten rahapaja: Luku- ja kirjoitustaidon hyödyntäminen rahanväärennöstarkoituksiin 1800-luvun puolivälissä

Users of Children Sections of Public Libraries: An International Reading Culture Research

How to Become an Author: The Poet Isa Asp and Her Childhood Fascination with Writing for Magazines

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