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Pedagogy-related tensions in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care
2020
In flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC), the timing of care depends on parents’ non-standard working hours. Multiple individual schedules and care times in a child group may cause irregularity in a child’s daily structures, and a child may miss a standard hour’s activities that are led by teachers with a pedagogical education. In this context, the significance and definition of pedagogy is vague and tensional. This study aimed at disclosing discursive tensions related to pedagogy in flexibly scheduled ECEC constructed in interviews by Finnish teachers and childcare nurses (n = 31). The analysis of the interview data followed the principles of discursive psychology. C…
“At worst it leads to madness.” A phenomenographic approach on how early childhood education professionals experience emotions in teamwork
2022
Teamwork is a key part of almost any person’s working life. At its best, teamwork embodies a good team spirit and increases employee well-being, but at its worst, a team is characterized by mistrust or competition between members where action and development is not possible. In this study we explored what types of emotions early childhood education professionals experience during teamwork. These questions are answered with the help of a phenomenographic approach. As a theoretical frame, in this study, we utilize Warr’s (2012) Affective circumplex model. According to our results the ECE professional’s experienced emotions can be mostly described through the categories of enthusiasm, anxiety,…
Musiikkileikkikoulun opettaja, varhaismusiikkikasvatuksen ekspertti : työelämä haasteena koulutukselle: esimerkkitapauksena Jyväskylän ammattikorkeak…
2005
Przyszłe nauczycielki wobec aktywności prospołecznej jako celu wychowania moralnego ucznia
2021
Przygotowanie studentów do realizacji zadań nauczyciela edukacji wczesnoszkolnej - między teorią a praktyką
2018
W artykule autorka porusza zagadnienia akademickiego przygotowania studentów do wykonywania zawodu nauczyciela edukacji wczesnoszkolnej. Istotnym elementem rozważań są kwestie związane z weryfikacją nabytej wiedzy teoretycznej i wykorzystanie jej w działaniach praktyczno-edukacyjnych. Teoretyczną część artykułu wspomaga analiza i interpretacja badań własnych.
Przygotowanie studentów do realizacji zadań nauczyciela edukacji wczesnoszkolnej - między teorią a praktyką
2018
W artykule autorka porusza zagadnienia akademickiego przygotowania studentów do wykonywania zawodu nauczyciela edukacji wczesnoszkolnej. Istotnym elementem rozważań są kwestie związane z weryfikacją nabytej wiedzy teoretycznej i wykorzystanie jej w działaniach praktyczno-edukacyjnych. Teoretyczną część artykułu wspomaga analiza i interpretacja badań własnych.
Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland
2023
The daily life of early childhood education and care (ECE) in Finland changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. The pandemic has had a significant impact on society at many levels, and it also has affected the work and workload of ECE leaders and the realisation of leadership. The aim of this research was to investigate ECE leadersʼ views on pedagogical leadership from the perspective of opportunities and challenges during exceptional times. The research uses the conceptualisation of broad-based pedagogical leadership as an analytical framework. The data consisted of the responses of ECE leaders (n = 492) to an electronic survey conducted in February 2021. There were sever…
The role of executive function in social competence and behavioral problems in the last year of preschool
2018
Diverse studies have found a relationship between executive function, behavioral problems and social competence. However, until this moment, few studies have investigated the role of the distinct components of executive function in social competence, or in the most frequently encountered behavioral problems in childhood education. For this reason, the principal objective of this article is to evaluate the relation of the exec-utive functions with behavioral problems and social competence in infancy. The study included 260 students in their last year of preschool. The results of path analysis showed that all components of executive functions predict, at least, a behavioral problem. However, …
Teachers' perception of children's agency in early childhood education
2017
The concept of agency is currently brought more and more into the focus of ed- ucational research. While professional agency at work is for instance already broadly discussed in adult education, research on children’s agency is still in its infancy. Children’s agency can be viewed from every aspect of children’s life, the focus of this research will be on early childhood education (ECE). For this study, children’s agency is examined from the teachers’ point of view. Five open-ended interviews were carried out with ECE teachers working in different kindergartens in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, one interview was held with two regional managers of the largest provider of kindergartens in Vie…
La comunità educante di fronte alla pandemia: possibili strategie di intervento e nuovi scenari in un’ottica di rete
2022
Quando nel mese di marzo 2020, anche i servizi educativi 0-6 in Italia furono chiusi in base alle misure di sicurezza per pandemia da Covid 19, ci si ritrovò da un giorno all’altro e senza alcuna esperienza pregressa, ad organizzare delle forme di educazione a distanza e di sostegno alle famiglie e ai bambini. Nell’articolo, in particolare, descrivo come si è cercato di far fronte all’emergenza nei nidi e nelle scuole dell’infanzia gestiti dal Comune di Palermo e come l’esperienza del primo lock down abbia permesso di mettere a fuoco alcune strategie di intervento che si sono rivelate una risorsa potenzialmente trasferibile in situazioni di normalità. Sottolineo, inoltre, come la necessità …