Younger children in ECEC: focus on the national steering documents in the Nordic countries
The aim of this study was to review the national steering documents on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the focus on children up to the age of three, posing the question: What do these documents tell us about ECEC for younger children in...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/49688 2024-02-04T10:01:30+01:00 Younger children in ECEC: focus on the national steering documents in the Nordic countries Hännikäinen, Maritta 2016 1001-1016 application/pdf http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201605022387 eng eng Routledge Early Child Development and Care 0300-4430 6 186 10.1080/03004430.2015.1071806 Hännikäinen, M. (2016). Younger children in ECEC: focus on the national steering documents in the Nordic countries. Early Child Development and Care , 186 (6), 1001-1016. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2015.1071806 CONVID_24831184 TUTKAID_66822 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201605022387 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201605022387 © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge). Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher. openAccess children up to age three document analysis ECEC curricula Nordic countries article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 acceptedVersion A1 2016 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2015.1071806 2024-01-11T00:02:03Z The aim of this study was to review the national steering documents on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the focus on children up to the age of three, posing the question: What do these documents tell us about ECEC for younger children in the Nordic early childhood settings? Methodologically, a qualitative document analysis was applied. The documents provide a picture of young children whose age, individual needs and a number of other factors, such as cultural background, should be taken into account in ECEC. These children learn holistically, in close interaction with their environment. Their safety and well-being are seen as paramount. The physical and social worlds of children expand with the help of experienced and sensitive educators. However, younger children are rarely addressed specifically in these documents. For instance, many important themes, such as the very beginning of the child's attendance in ECEC, are poorly explicated in them. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Norway Early Child Development and Care 186 6 1001 1016 |
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The aim of this study was to review the national steering documents on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the focus on children up to the age of three, posing the question: What do these documents tell us about ECEC for younger children in the Nordic early childhood settings? Methodologically, a qualitative document analysis was applied. The documents provide a picture of young children whose age, individual needs and a number of other factors, such as cultural background, should be taken into account in ECEC. These children learn holistically, in close interaction with their environment. Their safety and well-being are seen as paramount. The physical and social worlds of children expand with the help of experienced and sensitive educators. However, younger children are rarely addressed specifically in these documents. For instance, many important themes, such as the very beginning of the child's attendance in ECEC, are poorly explicated in them. peerReviewed |
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