Armchair pedagogy

Puroila, Anna‐Maija; Estola, Eila; Juutinen, Jaana; Viljamaa, Elina

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“…Privatisation as a phenomenon is promoted, resisted and debated in many countries around the world. Finland is an example of a society where the relationships between private and public organisations, state and municipal bodies, and national and international institutions are becoming increasingly complex (Puroila and Kinnunen, 2017). This study was implemented at a time when the legislation of Finnish ECEC had recently changed.…”

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“…All of the changes in the legislation concerned both municipal and private ECEC services. However, of the 2016 amendments remained optional and were not ratified in every Finnish municipality (Puroila and Kinnunen, 2017).…”

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“…The content of the surveys was based on renewed legislation, background material provided by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and previous research literature on ECEC (Puroila and Kinnunen, 2017). The surveys were organised into four sections: (1) background information (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… Funding The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The data for this study was drawn from a larger project funded by the Government of Finland (Puroila and Kinnunen 2017). …”

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Has something changed? Leaders’, practitioners’ and parents’ interpretations after renewed early childhood education and care legislation in Finnish private centres

Mäntyjärvi

Puroila

2019

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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This study addresses leadership enactment in the context of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres in Finland. The study was implemented at a time when the ECEC legislation has changed. The research draws from relational leadership theory to address the following questions: How do leaders, practitioners and parents evaluate ad interpret the impacts of changing ECEC legislation in private Finnish centres? How do these evaluations and interpretations reflect leadership enactment? This study conceptualises leadership as a context-dependent phenomenon constituted by shared meanings and relationships among leaders and other human actors in private centres. To achieve a multi-level picture about leadership enactment in private ECEC centres, this study employed a mixed-method approach. The data was collected through three online surveys and analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed that private centres form a heterogeneous context for leadership enactment in Finnish ECEC. Compared with practitioners and parents, the leaders were the most positive in their interpretations of the legislative changes. Especially, the study found a gap between the leaders' and parents' evaluations on how the legislative changes have impacted the daily praxis. The study calls for further research and tools for developing leadership enactment in private ECEC. Keywords:Early childhood education and care, Finland, leadership enactment, private early childhood education and care centre, relational leadership, societal change (2011), for instance, raised the question of how Nordic countries can maintain high-quality ECEC in the midst of societal changes driven by neoliberalism and increased marketisation. Moss (2016) pointed out that the marketisation approach makes quality of services a question of choice. Because marketisation and privatisation have emerged as global considerations in ECEC, it is important to explore the directions taken in various countries.The concept of marketisation has different meanings depending on time and place. In this study, marketisation refers to governmentally driven policies that support, enforce, and authorise market mechanisms and procedures to provide public services, including privatisation, outsourcing, competition, and choice (Brennan et al. 2012;Dýrfjörð and Magnúsdóttir 2016). Privatisation is

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2019

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“…The students in the Early Childhood Education career showed above-average preferences in all value categories with the other professional careers. In previous research, Early Childhood Education is related to values such as democracy, discipline, care, and security, as described by Emilson and Johansson (2013) and Puroila et al (2012). Communicating values at different educational levels is the prelude to organizing democratic life (Thornberg, 2008).…”

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A Study of Values in University Students from Teacher-Training Pedagogical Programs in Chile

Saavedra¹,

Philominraj²,

Urzúa³

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Value education for preservice university teachers is an unavoidable task, given the level of authority they exercise in the lives of children and young people. The objective of the current study was to understand the perception of values held by preservice teachers from a regional university in Chile set in a multicultural context. The aim was to analyze the opinions of Chilean university preservice teachers on a set of values. The research was designed within the quantitative framework using a Likert scale questionnaire, applied to 319 pedagogy university students. The participants’ responses were analyzed with statistical tools, and the results revealed that the participating students valued more significant aspects of affectivity, morals, and ecology. As reported by the participants, the least preferred values were instrumental and religious. These findings are significant for decision-making and consistent implementation to improve pedagogical training in accordance with today’s society’s problems and educational needs. The article ends with a conclusion, implications, and limitations of the current research.

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Young children as citizens: Learning from practice in the early childhood setting

Ryder

Robson

2023

J Child Edu Soc

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This paper examines enactments of young children’s citizenship in early childhood settings in England, which is an under researched area, in this study young children are positioned as social actors, competent and capable of making decisions and enacting citizenship. Values, child rights and citizenship are interconnected and often inseparable in practice. A mixed methods multiple-case study was conducted in England across several early childhood settings in the private and independent sector. Our findings indicate that young children enact citizenship through micro acts embedded into their day-to-day activities; such acts are often spontaneous in response to events or interactions. These are often pro-social in nature comprised as behaviours such as helping or showing concern for others. Our findings give visibility to the distinctive ways in which young children may enact citizenship including, for example, physical expressions.

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Armchair pedagogy

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Has something changed? Leaders’, practitioners’ and parents’ interpretations after renewed early childhood education and care legislation in Finnish private centres

Has something changed? Leaders’, practitioners’ and parents’ interpretations after renewed early childhood education and care legislation in Finnish private centres

A Study of Values in University Students from Teacher-Training Pedagogical Programs in Chile

Young children as citizens: Learning from practice in the early childhood setting

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