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Kaisa Harju; Mari Vuorisalo; Maiju Paananen; Niina Rutanen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschool Children
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Leppänen, Sirpa; Westinen, Elina – AILA Review, 2017
Focusing on a YouTube performance by an emergent Finnish Somali rapper and the audience responses it has generated, this paper looks at ways in which rap music engages with the issue of belonging. Drawing on recent theorizations of belonging as a multi-dimensional, contingent and fluid process, along with sociolinguistic work on globalization and…
Descriptors: Music, Video Technology, Intervention, Stranger Reactions
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Simpson, Ashley; Dervin, Fred – Educational Practice and Theory, 2017
In recent years the words 'Finnish education' have been accompanied by utterances of 'an education miracle,' 'the best education system,' 'a success' and a number of other adjectives and superlatives to 'describe' education in Finland. While Finland's PISA ranking has declined media interest and discourses on 'Finnish education' have not relented.…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality