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Kindergarten space and autonomy in construction - Explorations during team ethnography in a Finnish kindergarten
2018
Abstract Children’s autonomy is a cultural ideal in Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC). In this article we examine autonomy in spatial terms. The theoretical background is developed by applying spatial sociology. Our starting point is that space is relationally produced, thus, we understand space as continuously negotiated, reconstructed and reorganized phenomena. In this article, we investigate the production of space by different actors in ECEC and seek to show how autonomy is also continuously produced and re-produced in the negotiation of space. For this investigation we use data collected as part of a team ethnographic project in a Finnish kindergarten. The project inclu…
Examining the Simple View of Reading in a Transparent Orthography: A Longitudinal Study From Kindergarten to Grade 3
2016
This study examined the dynamic relationships among the components of the Simple View of Reading (SVR) in a transparent orthography (Finnish) and the predictive value of cognitive skills (phonological awareness, letter knowledge, rapid naming, and vocabulary) on the SVR components. Altogether, 1,815 Finnish children were followed from kindergarten to Grade 3. Their cognitive skills were assessed in kindergarten, listening comprehension and reading fluency in Grades 1 and 2, and reading comprehension in Grades 1–3. Reading fluency and listening comprehension accounted for 37% of the variance in reading comprehension in Grade 2 and 28% in Grade 3. The direct effect of reading fluency on readi…
Preventive Support for Kindergarteners Most At-Risk for Mathematics Difficulties: Computer-Assisted Intervention
2015
Weaknesses in early number skills have been found to be a risk factor for later difficulties in mathematical performance. Nevertheless, only a few intervention studies with young children have been published. In this study, the responsiveness to early support in kindergarteners with most severe difficulties was examined with two different computer programs. Two intervention groups were matched by age, visuo-spatial, and phonological working memory, as well as early number skills. After a short and intensive computerized intervention, the results indicated significant intervention effects for verbal counting Wilcoxon ES (r) = 0.46, and dot counting fluency, r = 0.52, when practiced with Grap…
"Ebeneserin lastentarhan lapset" muistelevat : Ebeneserin lastentarhan toiminta 1920-1950 -luvuilla
2017
Päiväkodeissa ja päivähoidon piirissä toimitaan tiettyjen asiakirjojen ohjaamina, mistä tärkeimpinä mainittakoon varhaiskasvatuslaki ja varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteet. Jotta voidaan ymmärtää ja tarkastella nykyistä toimintaa varhaiskasvatuksessa, on syytä perehtyä myös varhaiskasvatuksen historiaan ja siihen, mistä toiminta on lähtenyt muotoutumaan, siihen mitä se tänä päivänä on. On tärkeää miettiä kysymystä, miten tähän on tultu ja miksi päiväkodeissa toimitaan tietyillä tavoilla. Tärkeää on myös pohtia sitä, näkyykö tämän päivän toiminnassa samankaltaisuutta verrattuna historiaan. Tämän tutkimuksen tehtävänä oli selvittää varhaiskasvatuksen ja lastentarhan historiaa maassamme. Tav…