Children’s participation in Finnish pre-school education - Identifying, Describing and Documenting Children’s Participation | Zendy

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Children’s participation in Finnish pre-school education - Identifying, Describing and Documenting Children’s Participation

Author(s) -

Jonna Lein,

Annu Brotherus,

Tuulikki Venninen

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

nordisk barnehageforskning

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1890-9167

DOI - 10.7577/nbf.725

Subject(s) - curriculum , citizen journalism , context (archaeology) , pedagogy , ideology , point (geometry) , sociology , focus group , psychology , mathematics education , political science , politics , geography , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , anthropology , law

This article describes, analyzes, and evaluates children’s participatory in Finnish pre-school groups. Children’s participation is viewed in the context of the Core Curriculum for Pre-school Education in Finland (2010), in which children are considered active subjects, who interact with both other people and the environment. However, in practical data, collected via survey from pre-school educators, this ideology is restricted and the educators in pre-school groups focus on children’s participation from a narrow point of view that reflects a lack of connection between the Core Curriculum goals for pre-school education and the actual participatory practices children face.

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