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Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is changing globally. We investigated ECEC leadership and leaders’ interpretations of power and its realization between leaders and followers, a little researched topic in the field. Our theoretical framework consists of ECEC contextual knowledge and prior research attached with Michel Foucaul...
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected all aspects of professional and private life worldwide, including the field of early childhood education and care (ECE). This volume sheds light on leadership in ECE: How did leaders experience the challenges they were facing and what coping strategies did they apply in order to deal with the changes...
The daily life of early childhood education and care (ECE) in Finland changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. The pandemic has had a significant impact on society at many levels, and it also has affected the work and workload of ECE leaders and the realisation of leadership. The aim of this research was to investigate ECE leader...
The exceptional circumstances during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021 caused unexpected challenges for the leaders in Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres. The range of measures implemented for preventing the infection from spreading reduced opportunities for face-to-face communication and changed the form of professional cooperation. All that...
Huoli ammatinvaihtajien määrästä opetus-ja kasvatusalalla on yleistynyt Suomessa kuluneen vuosikymmenen aikana. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkaste-lemme ammatista poistuneiden varhaiskasvatuksen opettajien (n = 164) koke-muksia ammatinvaihtoon johtaneista tekijöistä sekä ammatinvaihdon ase-moitumista työuran eri vaiheisiin. Monimenetelmällisen tutkimukse...
The report is in Finnish. Abstract in English.
The Ministry of Education and Culture commissioned the University of Helsinki to carry out a project (VEPO 2035) to develop leadership in early childhood education and care, pre- primary education and primary and lower secondary education. The objective was to draw up a leadership development plan exte...
Background
Although the contexts, structures and administrations of early childhood education (ECE) may differ internationally, effective pedagogical leadership remains an essential component in supporting young children’s development and learning. This paper reports on a comparative study which considered ECE in two different settings, Finland and...
Varhaiskasvatusta on viime vuosina kehitetty voimakkaasti ja sen laatu on noussut tarkastelun keskiöön. Laatuun on pyritty vaikuttamaan laajoilla uudistuksilla varhaiskasvatuksen lainsäädännössä. Uudistukset kohdistuvat erityisesti varhaiskasvatuksen sisältöihin sekä henkilöstörakenteen muutokseen. Haasteina varhaiskasvatuksessa on opettajapula ja...
This article investigates early childhood education and care (ECEC) leadership through the concept of community of practice (COP). The focus is on ECEC leaders' perceptions regarding their leadership during the educational changes taking place in the context of Finnish ECEC. The purpose is to increase understanding of how leaders see themselves in...
In English: School and early childhood education leaders’ views of their own leadership competences and need for development.
This article discusses how leaders working in early childhood education centres and comprehensive schools view their own leadership competences and need to develop them. In this study, we focused on the aspect of leaders’ se...
Linkki artikkeliin: https://journal.fi/hallinnontutkimus/article/view/103069/67024
Tarkastelemme laajan pedagogisen johtamisen viitekehyksessä, millaisten rehtorin johtamiseen liittyvien elementtien opettajat ja rehtorit tulkitsevat edistävän opetussuunnitelman toteutumista. Aineistoina olivat rehtoreiden (N = 43) ja opettajien (N = 40) vastaukset...
This chapter presents results of a study conducted in two Finnish municipalities where early childhood education (ECE) quality was evaluated by a tool developed based on the current research, national quality indicators and Finnish ECE policy documents. Based on policy recommendations and contemporary quality management research, this chapter refle...
Julkaistu 1.6.2021. Sivistys, hallinto ja tutkimus blogissa https://tjsh.blogspot.com/ Varhaiskasvatus murroksessa-tulevaisuuden suuntaviivoja etsimässä! Jonna Kangas, KT, dosentti, varhaiskasvatuksen yliopistonlehtori, Helsingin yliopisto Elina Fonsén, KT, dosentti, varhaiskasvatuksen yliopistonlehtori, Helsingin yliopisto Heidi Harju-Luukkainen,...
Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) experienced system-wide changes in legislation, curriculum, and teachers’ and centre leaders’ qualification requirements between 2013 and 2018. Through these changes, the Finnish ECEC follows the global trends shifting the focus of ECEC from care towards education. The data are leaders’ (N = 41) wri...
In this paper, we present research that focuses on pedagogical leadership that is evaluated by the staff in the early education unit. The evaluations relate to the observed indicators of the well-being of children and leadership evaluations conducted by the early education centre directors. The methods include systematic observation of children, ed...
According to previous research, the leadership in early childhood education (ECE) needs to be strengthened and improved by building sustainable structures. The aim of the current research was to investigate how ECE professionals evaluate its leadership. The context of the study was a development project called Sustainable leadership in ECE conducte...
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
THIS STUDY EXAMINES the experiences of early childhood teachers in their everyday pedagogical work. The data for this qualitative study consists of the diaries of early childhood teachers. Layder's (1993) research map has been used to structure the theoretical background and provide an analytical frame to categorise the data. The results show that...
Toimiva pedagoginen johtajuus on varhaiskasvatuksen laadun edellytys. Jos varhaiskasvatuksen esimiesten hallinnolliset työt korostuvat liikaa, pedagogiikan johtamiseen ei jää riittävästi aikaa. Myös varhaiskasvatuslain ja varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteiden uudistukset asettavat johtajuudelle uudenlaisia vaatimuksia.
Tässä kirjassa kerrotaan,...
This article presents the results of a study assessing the quality of joint leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the city of Hämeenlinna, Finland. The assessment was carried out through an online survey in August 2015. The study's respondents were ECEC centre directors and teachers in Hämeenlinna. The results indicated that th...
The purpose of the research was to clarify the phenomena of pedagogical leadership and to investigate the implementation of pedagogical leadership by childcare centre directors. The research was connected with the University of Tampere's Development Project on pedagogical leadership carried out in seven municipalities in Finland. The project reflec...
