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Newcomer Object Ownership Negotiations When Transitioning from Home Care to Early Childhood Education and Care in Finland
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Yaiza Lucas Revilla; Raija Raittila; Eija Sevon; Niina Rutanen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
For those experiencing them, educational transitions include not only the present time but are embedded within institutions that precede and extend beyond the individuals. This article explores how, as an institutional space, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting is (re)produced within young children's encounters with others during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Infants, Toddlers
Early Gender Differences in Emotional Expressions and Self-Regulation in Settings of Early Childhood Education and Care
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Veijalainen, Jouni; Reunamo, Jyrki; Heikkilä, Minna – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This paper aims to determine possible gender differences in children's observed emotional expressions and their relationship with teacher-rated self-regulation (SR) skills in the setting of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Supporting SR and emotional wellbeing in early childhood can be considered a favourable pathway towards holistic…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Emotional Response, Self Management, Self Control
Toddlers as Both More and Less Competent Social Actors in Finnish Day Care Centres
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Kalliala, Marjatta – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
In recent decades, the notion of the competent child has, in the field of Early Childhood Education, become a powerful discourse. In this paradigm, inspired by the sociology of childhood, the child is seen as a competent social actor having agency in his or her life. However, critical comments have been made at both the micro-and macro-level about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Competence, Child Care Centers
Not Babies Anymore: Young Children's Narrative Identities in Finnish Day Care Centers
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Puroila, Anna-Maija; Estola, Eila – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
With the aim of deepening understanding of young children's identity construction, the study explores small stories produced in a Finnish day care center context. Small stories are understood as identity-constituting social practices that occur and recur in day care settings. Taking ideas on narrative ethnography as starting point, research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Young Children