Flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care: experiences of Finnish parents and educators
Autor: | Anna Rönkä, Kaisa Malinen, Mia Tammelin, Leena Turja, Marjatta Kekkonen |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Early childhood education
varhaiskasvatus Day care epäsäännöllinen työaika epätyypillinen työ Education joustavuus flexibly scheduled ECEC Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Operations management parents working non-standard hours Public education Service (business) Medical education 05 social sciences Single parent 050301 education early educators Educational attainment työaika vanhemmat Work (electrical) ECEC services Survey data collection Psychology 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology |
Zdroj: | Early Years. :1-16 |
ISSN: | 1472-4421 0957-5146 |
Popis: | This study focuses on flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC), an institutional childcare service for Finnish families where both parents, or a single parent, work non-standard hours. Although many countries nowadays offer extended hours day care, only Finland has a publicly provided, law-based system guaranteeing ECEC during non-standard as well as standard hours. We explore, drawing on parental survey data, what kinds of families use such services and when. Furthermore, we utilise web-survey data obtained from early educators to find out what they report as the main challenges involved in implementing flexibly scheduled ECEC. The results showed that single-parent families and lower educated parents were over-represented among the families using flexibly scheduled ECEC. The unpredictability of working-life tends to spill over to ECEC. Due to varying parental work schedules, children have unique daily and weekly rhythms, which in turn impact on administration, pedagogical issues and meeting children’s needs. peerReviewed |
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