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Johan on markkinat! : varhaiskasvatuspalveluiden järjestäminen muutoksessa
2018
Yksityisesti tuotetun varhaiskasvatuksen osuus kasvaa. Kasvu on ollut julkisesti tuettua eli poliittisen prosessin tulos. Yksityisen toiminnan, perheiden valinnan mahdollisuuksien ja palveluntuottajien kilpailun lisääntymissä on kyse varhaiskasvatuksen markkinoistumisesta. Viime kädessä varhaiskasvatuksesta päätetään kuntatasolla. Tutkimuksessamme olemme tarkastelleet, millaisia merkityksiä kuntapäättäjät markkinoistumiskehitykseen liittävät. nonPeerReviewed
Tasa-arvokysymysten uusi tuleminen
2018
Movement and physical activity in early childhood education and care in the Nordic countries
2022
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges the importance of preschool children taking part in comprehensive physical activities supporting, among other things, their motor development, and competencies. A growing number of children attend early childhood education and care (ECEC), and expectations that this will support the development and learning of the youngest children are high. ECEC are governed by different policies embodied in both laws and curricula, and the framework of a curriculum plays a key role in ensuring the quality of ECEC services. The documents represent the content society wants the ECEC institutions to disseminate, and set out the values, objectives, a…
Children’s transitions in early childhood education and care : various combinations of dis-/continuities
2023
This longitudinal multiple case study explores children’s transitions within early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland. In ECEC children typically transition from one group or center to another. This study explores how physical, social and philosophical discontinuities and continuities constitute these transitions. Five focus children’s transitions were followed in and between separate ECEC centers. The data include interviews with parents and educators as well as observations noted. Fabian’s discontinuity division, which argues that transition consists of physical, social, and philosophical discontinuities, was used for content analysis of interviews as primary data. Interpretat…
Digital Stories with Children: Examining Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Process in ECEC
2020
Modern digital technologies have become common in educational settings of all levels. This has made the use of digital storytelling (DST) more applicable in early childhood education and care (ECEC). This paper examines the implementation of DST, aiming to answer the following questions: 1) How to support children’s active participation throughout the DST process in ECEC, and 2) how do 21st century skills manifest in the DST process? The study was conducted between 2017 and 2018, when two cycles of DST projects were implemented in four Finnish ECEC centres as part of a European project. The data consist of interviews with educators (N=15) and children (N=51), as well as documentation of the…
Relationaalisen asiantuntijuuden rakentuminen varhaiskasvatuksen opettajankoulutuksen ohjatun harjoittelun diskursseissa
2021
Akateemisen koulutuksen ja työelämän välisen yhteistyön luomat mahdollisuudet asiantuntijuuden kehittymiselle ovat ajankohtaisen keskustelun kohteena. Varhaiskasvatuksen opiskelijoiden ohjattu harjoittelu on perinteinen koulutuksen ja työelämän yhteistyön muoto ja keskeinen opettajaopiskelijoiden oppimisen konteksti. Tutkimuksessamme tarkasteltiin varhaiskasvatuksen opiskelijoiden sekä päiväkodin ja yliopistokoulutuksen ohjaavien opettajien relationaalisen asiantuntijuuden rakentumisen mahdollisuuksia ohjatun harjoittelun yhteydessä. Tutkittavaa ilmiötä tarkasteltiin opiskelijoiden sekä päiväkodin ja koulutuksen ohjaavien opettajien itselleen ja muille tuotettujen positioiden sekä asiantunt…
Yksivuotiaiden lasten huoltajien subjektiivisen varhaiskasvatusoikeuden rajaamiseen liittyvät asenteet ja niitä selittävät tekijät
2018
Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteiden 2016 toimeenpanon arviointi : varhaiskasvatussuunnitelmien käyttöönotto ja sisällöt
2018
Evaluation of early childhood education quality across Europe
2014
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Comparing Mathematics Early Years Education in Spain, Portugal and Slovenia
2022
This work aims to examine how the learning of mathematics in early childhood is developed in different policies, particularly within the processes of formal education and care in early years institutions. A comparative analysis of early mathematics education policies across countries must consider cultural differences, teaching practice, structural differences and institutional framework conditions, as well as the initial training and professional knowledge of teachers and educators. Extracted from the official country regulations, the following pages include some of the main characteristics of the national systems of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Portugal, Slovenia and Spain…