ERIC Number: EJ1403241
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1976-5681
EISSN: EISSN-2288-6729
Multi-Professional Teamwork in Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, v17 Article 21 2023
This article analyses the theoretical, practical, and political interpretations of multi-professional teamwork in Finnish early childhood education and care during the last two decades. A semi-systematic approach was used to provide an overview of teams, teamwork, team composition, and multi-professionalism. The data were drawn from two main sources: key Finnish policy documents that regulate or guide multi-professional teamwork and a systematic literature review of multi-professional teamwork in Finnish research studies over the past 20 years. The data were examined through the lens of thematic analysis. In the final phase of the analysis, we constructed a narrative timeline. The timeline indicates two main themes: one is an emphasis on multi-professional teamwork as a resource combined with the challenges in implementing it, the other is an emphasis on pedagogy and the clarification of professional profiles. The timeline illustrates changes in the ways multi-professional teamwork has been interpreted, guided, and studied.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational History
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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