”Positive Coexistence in school society” FINLAND C1 Social models

Cat Peterson She is a Swedish speaking Finn Born in 1988 Real name: Catherine Petterson  Youtube videos in Swedish, English and Finnish She lives in London She is our rolemodel because she shows others about the life in Finland but talks English so that others can understand it. Here is one video where she talks about Finland: https://youtu.be/Ov_IA1bvdck

Viktoria Harrysson She´s a 14 years old transgender youtuber from Sweden She is not afraid of being herself, she answeres all questions she gets, no matter what the questions are about She was born in a male body but in her head she always felt like a female  It is pretty amazing that she is just in the same age as we, but she is one hundred times braver and stronger than we are

Joulupukki/ Julgubben/ Santa Claus

Joulupukki He lives in Korvatunturi, Lapland, FINLAND He brings presents to kind children on Christmas Santa Claus Village is a themepark in Rovaniemi with Christmas theme In Finland we call Santas helpers tonttuja

Sauli Niinistö -Sauli Niinistö is the president of Finland. -He's been our president for one period and that's six years. -He was born in 1948. -He have good opinions, for example he wants everyone to live in peace. -He respects/accepts swedish speaking finns, and that is very important to us because we belong to the swedish speaking "community".

Alma Alma's real name is Alma-Sofia Miettinen. She's a Finnish singer and song writer. She's herself and doesn't care what other people say about her.

Nowadays he´s 47 years old. Teemu Selänne Teemu Selänne is a world famous icehockey player from Finland. On his carreer he had done around 600 goals in NHL.  He has a charity called Finnish Flash and supports youth-, women- and disability sports. Nowadays he´s 47 years old.

Sanni She was born in Lohja. And she is 24 years old. She plays electropop. In her songs she is looking for herself and trying to find out who she really is. She likes people to act how they are as themselves.

Barack Obama Former president of USA Born August 4 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii After graduating from Columbia University in New York City in 1983, he worked as a s a community organizy in Chicago. On March 11, 2009, Obama created the White House Council on women and girls. He was 8 years as a president

She was born in Lovisa in 1980 EVA WAHLSTRÖM She was born in Lovisa in 1980 Untlil today she won the World Championship in boxing 3 times In addition to boxing she has written two books and  also designed  furniture of wood

Our survey We made a survey conserning social models   It was answered by 52 students in grades 7 and 8

Our result: 63% said that they have social models Athletes (31%) , YouTubers (19%) and artists (21%) were most common, but a few students also mentioned family members as important role models for them

When asked to rate how important different characteristics are (1-5) students gave the following answers: Important: Fair 4,38 Friendly 4,23 Open and social 4,12 Talented in ones field 3,87 Less important: Rich 2,29 Popular 2,82 Influential 3,45 Charity work 3,36

When asked about the impact social models have on one´s life  ”Makes one consider" got almost 43% of the votes followed by  ”Trying to work harder in school"  29%. "Better behaviour" got 12% . "No impact" and ”Envy" scored less than 10%