Search results for "Lapsuus"

Relational analysis and the ethnographic approach : constructing preschool childhood

2021

This article elaborates the relational ontology in an ethnographic study. The aim is to seek relational construction of preschool practice and how children’s positions are constructed in it. The study is based on the understanding that ethnography and relational sociology share the idea that society emerges through repeated relations. The ontological thinking of relational sociology is applied in a micro-level analysis of three episodes from a Finnish preschool. We propose that relations appear in every single ethnographical episode and that carefully analysed repetitive relations can reveal a stabilised organisational structure. The analysis shows how the position of one child is structuri…

Lapsuuden kuvaaminen Zora Neale Hurstonin novelleissa John Redding goes to sea ja Drenched in light

2008

Toddlers' Play in Early Childhood Education Settings

2018

More and more toddlers participate in early childhood education outside home, sharing a significant part of their day with teachers and peers, often in play. Despite the knowledge that has accumulated on toddlers’ playing skills and on the psychology underlying the development of play, research on toddlers’ play from the educational and pedagogical viewpoints is limited. Whereas teachers of toddlers report high respect for play and the importance of play in toddlers’ lives, research shows that the position of play is generally weak. This chapter, drawing on existing research, reviews the development and characteristics of toddlers’ play, describes the ways in which they play, and discusses …

Clothes

2019

Niina Rutanen, Raija Raittila, Mari Vuorisalo write about Clothes and clothing practices in Finnish early childhood education and care. The adopted approach combines relational sociology and geography and addresses the different kinds of spaces clothing practices create in ECEC. Clothing and clothing practices play an important role in the everyday life of ECEC, but often have a different meaning to educators, to the children and to parents. Niina, Raija and Mari show how these different spaces collide with each other and create one possible story of Arctic childhood. In their understanding, space is a social construction and changes in action. They state how ‘the ‘ideal’ Nordic child is th…

Digital Games in Early Childhood: Broadening Definitions of Learning, Literacy, and Play

2017

Digital games attract children and young people with imaginary worlds, fascinating stories, and shared experiences with peers. They also can add children’s learning and motivation and offer a variety of new affordances to explore and play with. The pedagogical use of digital games has been found to potentially intensify a more critical use and understanding of varied forms of media. In this chapter, we will focus on analyzing the role of digital games in early childhood, especially from the perspectives of learning, literacy, and play. This chapter examines digital games as playing an essential role in young children’s overall technology experiences, particularly in the context of the socia…

Resolving reading disability : Childhood predictors and adult-age outcomes

2018

We examined frequency of adult-age reading disability (RD) and its childhood predictors among 48 adults (20 to 39 years) with documented childhood RD, and contrasted their cognitive skills, education, and employment with 37 matched controls. Among individuals with childhood RD, more than half had improved in their reading fluency to the level where the set criterion for adult-age RD was not met anymore. More fluent rapid naming, less severe childhood RD, and multiple support providers in childhood together predicted improvement of reading fluency. More fluent naming differentiated the childhood RD participants whose reading fluency had improved by adult-age from those participants whose RD …

Introduction

2018

Childhood Sports Participation Is Associated With Health-Related Quality of Life in Young Men: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

2021

The aim of the study was to examine whether sports participation (SP), engagement in competitive sports (CS) and the type of sport undertaken at the age of 12 are associated with the physical and the mental components of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in young adulthood. The data were collected using questionnaires prior to a compulsory military refresher training course in Finland. The sample consisted of 784 men (mean age 26 years). HRQoL was measured with RAND 36 and childhood sports participation with a series of questions. Data were analysed with logistic regression. Higher frequency of SP, participation in district level CS, performing team, endurance or extreme sports and pla…

Emotionally Neglected or Deviant? Treating Childhood Neuroses in Communist Hungary during the Early 1960s

2018

Huostaan otetun ja sijoitetun lapsen kokemuksia osallisuudesta lastensuojelun asiakkuudessaan

2013

Tutkielman tehtävänä on tarkastella, kuinka lapsen osallisuus näyttäytyy lastensuojelun asiakkuudessa sijaishuollossa. Tutkimuksen teoreettisena viitekehyksenä toimii muuttunut lapsuuskäsitys, uusi lapsuusparadigma, joka mieltää lapsen toimijana ja osallistujana omissa asioissaan. Tutkielma on kvalitatiivinen, ja sen aineisto on saatu haastattelemalla seitsemää huostaan otettua ja sijoitettua lasta, iältään 12 -19-vuotiaita. Aineisto on analysoitu teoriaohjaavan sisällönanalyysin metodilla. Lasten kuvauksista nousee esiin kolmenlaisia asiakkuuskokemuksia. Osa lapsista kuvaa jäävänsä asiakkuutensa ulkojäseniksi ja vaille osallistumisen kokemuksia. Toinen osa lapsista kertoo rakenteellisista …