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Nevanen, Saila; Juvonen, Antti; Ruismäki, Heikki – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
More than 98 percent of children in Finland attend preschool, where different kinds of projects are carried out in order to strengthen the children's abilities. This article focuses on the effects of one arts education project from a school readiness point of view. The main question was, How did the Helsinki arts education project affect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness
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Niikko, Anneli; Ugaste, Aino – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The purpose of this study is to describe the conceptions of the Finnish and Estonian pre-school teachers' goals, and the achievement of these goals in their pedagogical work. The study consisted of 60 (30 from each country) interviews with pre-school teachers. The interview data was analyzed phenomenographically. The findings showed that children…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Play, Preschool Teachers, Social Development
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Salminen, Jenni; Hannikainen, Maritta; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2013
This study examined the diversity of teaching practices to illuminate the qualitative variety of instructional teaching practices among preschool teachers. Further, teachers' self-rated educational goals were explored to complement the multifaceted nature of preschool teachers' instructional teaching practices. The study was carried out as a case…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Case Studies