M Alasuutari
Biographic Data
| ID | 19071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Alasuutari |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Alasuutari |
| SIGNATURE | ALASUUTARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4881-632X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From images to interaction: Examining the relationship between children's photography and types of dialogic interactions
Photo elicitation in early childhood education and care (ECEC) can facilitate various types of dialogic interactions between teachers and small groups of children. However, little is known about how the content of children's photographs and their perspectives on them relate to different forms of interactions. In the present study, we explored the themes of photographs taken and discussed by children and the extent to which photography assignments…
Teachers’ Occupational Well-Being in the Finnish Two-Year Pre-Primary Education Trial: A Person-Oriented Approach
This study focused on occupational well-being among early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers ( n = 409) participating in Finland’s two-year pre-primary education trial (2021–2024). We examined what kinds of occupational well-being profiles could be identified among the ECEC teachers and which teacher-related and contextual factors explained them. Based on latent profile analysis, three profiles were identified: thriving ( n = 250), with…
Engaged teachers are satisfied with their profession: Evidence from novice teachers in Finnish early childhood education and care and the links with their socio-demographic characteristics
Low retention among newly graduated teachers and high turnover among the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce have become an international concern. Though engaged teachers tend to report more job satisfaction and remain longer in their profession, research on novice ECEC teachers’ job satisfaction and work engagement is scarce. Thus, this study explores novice ECEC teachers’ evaluations of their work engagement and job satisfaction…
Goodness-of-Fit Between a 1-Year-Old’s Behavioral Tendencies and the Form of Child Care
The goodness-of-fit model suggests that interplay between a child’s behavioral tendencies and their environment, such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) context, is a key factor in promoting child’s well-being in early childhood. Using survey data from Finnish parents with a 1-year-old child, we investigate: differences in seven behavioral tendencies (e.g., Activity level, Irritability) among children in different forms of childcare; va…
Unravelling early childhood education students’ motivation and commitment to the teaching profession: A longitudinal narrative case study
The global teacher shortage has brought student recruitment and teacher retention to the forefront of education policy. While no simple solutions exist, research suggests that targeting teacher education applicants with strong initial motivation may foster higher commitment to the profession. This article presents findings from a three-year longitudinal qualitative study of Finnish early childhood education students, tracking their journey from t…
Encouraging children's voices in early childhood education and care: Types of dialogic interaction based on photo elicitation
Research is needed on how to encourage children's voices in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Photography is a child-friendly method to support children expressing their views regarding their lives in ECEC. However, little is known about the types of dialogic interactions photo elicitation can produce when children engage in small group discussion about the photos they have taken. We investigated what types of dialogic interaction, based…
Professional identity construction among early childhood educators: Narratives of emotion-laden situations with children
This study investigated early childhood educators’ identity construction in their narratives of emotion-laden situations with children. Narrative analysis was conducted with Greimas’s actantial model on video-cued interviews with 15 educators. Two narratives were identified: in the narrative of educators managing their emotions, educators’ negative emotions connected to challenging interactions with children shattered the identity of the professi…
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: The roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes
As in the other Nordic welfare states, public ECEC system is seen as the cornerstone of the universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution in Finland. Many Finnish municipalities, however, support private ECEC service provision and parents’ possibility to choose ECEC services for their child, both of which indicate privatisation and marketisation of ECEC. This study examines parents’ (N = 781) ECEC decisions between public and pr…
Empowered, Strained, or Stable: Teachers’ Experiences of Occupational Well-Being During the Two-Year Pre-Primary Education Trial in Finland
Research Findings: This study investigated early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers’ experiences of occupational well-being during a two-year pre-primary education trial in Finland. Profile groups of the trial experimental group teachers (n = 376) were identified. We also examined whether the identified profiles differed with respect to different ECEC classroom and teacher professional characteristics. Through latent profile analysis, t…
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
Interactional space for agency: Discussing photography with preschoolers
According to the latest research in both arts education and childhood studies, young children's agency is relational, entangled and negotiated. However, in early childhood visual arts education, modernist practices emphasising the independent and self-expressive child–agent are still recognisable. In this article, early childhood artistic activities are seen as a shared venue for interaction, social exchange and joint meaning-making, thereby prov…
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland
Parents` significance in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is emphasized in the research, but primarily from the perspective of ECEC professionals. Drawing on discursive institutionalism, we analysed what parents of young children in Finland constructed as essential in ECEC from the child`s point of view in their discussions concerning the forms of ECEC services. We found that parents constructed ECEC through two interconnected frames: en…
The changing policy ideals for parental cooperation in early childhood education and care
How parents spend time with their children, what they teach their children and how they raise them in the early years have again become topics of policymaking and public debate. There is an intensive discussion about parental involvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Starting Strong series provides ECEC policy guidelines for national governments that include guides for p…
Enrolling the child in private early childhood education and care in the context of universal service provision
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the other Nordic countries, but in the last 15 years this system has undergone considerable marketisation and privatisation suggested to enable parental choice of ECEC.Much of the existing research on parental ECEC decisions has been conducted in contexts where ECEC systems differ considerably from the welfare and educational regimes of the Nordic coun…
Dilemmas Related to Young Children's Participation and Rights: A Discourse Analysis Study of Present and Future Professionals Working with Children
According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), every child has the right to be heard and express their views in matters that concern them. Yet, participation is one of the most debated aspects of the UNCRC. Although children's participation is a statutory requirement of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) and schools, educators are often unfamiliar with how to meet the demands of participation. In thi…
Mothers' return-to-work reasons and work-family conflict: Does a Partner Involved in Childcare Make a Difference
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects again…
The puzzles of daily life: The temporal orders of families when parents have non‐standard work schedules
This article investigates the temporal orders of families as the daily rhythms and schedules when one or both parents work non‐standard hours. Our focus is especially on the often asynchronous times of non‐standard work, on one hand, and of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and other institutions, on the other hand. The data consist of semi‐structured qualitative interviews of Finnish parents with a four‐year‐old child. The resul…
Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: The case of Finland
In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with municipal decision-makers, this article identifies three frames within which publicly subsidised private ECEC provision and marketisation are rationalised: the pragmatic frame, the gover…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates: The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictio…
Managing the flow of private information on children and parents in poverty situations: Creating a panoptic eye in interorganizational networks
In this article, we discuss how the flow of private information about children and families in poverty situations is managed in interorganizational networks that aim to combat child poverty. Although practices for sharing information and documentation between child and family social work services are highly encouraged and recommended to create supportive features for parents and children, this development often results in undesirable forms of gov…
Positioning children with special educational needs in early childhood education and care documents
The article critically discusses the practice of describing children’s special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understood as a form of governance. In current practice, documentation is extensively used in educational institutions. Even when the focus of documentation should be pedagogical, the descriptions of children’s SEN commonly describe a child’s individual deficits…
Documentation in Childhood
Documenting Napping: The Agentic Force of Documents and Human Action
The article examines the question of the agentic force of documents in institutional practices and proposes a conceptual model of the agentic relation between documentation and human actors. For this aim, it presents an empirical case study of Finnish early childhood education and care. The study deals with individual education plans (IEPs), which are an example of child documentation that aims at an individualised and participatory pedagogy. The…
Voicing the child? A case study in Finnish early childhood education
Contemporary Nordic early childhood education and care takes as its starting point the individual and 'competent' child and emphasizes the aim to take account of children's views. It is also common in educational settings that the child's views are documented and thus transformed into contexts in which they are discussed between the adults. In light of a case study of 22 parent-teacher meetings in Finnish early childhood education and care the ar…
My Dad Got Depression, or Something”: How Do Children Talk about Parental Mental Disorder
The research about children affected by parents with mental disorders has suggested that information and an understanding of the parent's problems are important factors in the child's resilience. Therefore, increasing the child's understanding has been defined as a key element in many preventive interventions. However, there is little research about children's conceptions of parental mental disorder. The article examines the discourses (vocabular…
Mothers' return-to-work reasons and work-family conflict: Does a Partner Involved in Childcare Make a Difference
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects again…
The domestication of early childhood education plans in Finland
The article analyses how the implementation of early childhood education plans in Finland is linked with international trends and what happens in the process through which such worldwide ideals are domesticated to the local conditions. Through a detailed analysis of different stages of the process, the article sheds light on the question of how, to what extent and at which levels the national path of change is converged with those in other countr…
Dilemmas Related to Young Children's Participation and Rights: A Discourse Analysis Study of Present and Future Professionals Working with Children
According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), every child has the right to be heard and express their views in matters that concern them. Yet, participation is one of the most debated aspects of the UNCRC. Although children's participation is a statutory requirement of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) and schools, educators are often unfamiliar with how to meet the demands of participation. In thi…
My Dad Got Depression, or Something”: How Do Children Talk about Parental Mental Disorder
The research about children affected by parents with mental disorders has suggested that information and an understanding of the parent's problems are important factors in the child's resilience. Therefore, increasing the child's understanding has been defined as a key element in many preventive interventions. However, there is little research about children's conceptions of parental mental disorder. The article examines the discourses (vocabular…
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
The changing policy ideals for parental cooperation in early childhood education and care
How parents spend time with their children, what they teach their children and how they raise them in the early years have again become topics of policymaking and public debate. There is an intensive discussion about parental involvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Starting Strong series provides ECEC policy guidelines for national governments that include guides for p…
Enrolling the child in private early childhood education and care in the context of universal service provision
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the other Nordic countries, but in the last 15 years this system has undergone considerable marketisation and privatisation suggested to enable parental choice of ECEC.Much of the existing research on parental ECEC decisions has been conducted in contexts where ECEC systems differ considerably from the welfare and educational regimes of the Nordic coun…
Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: The case of Finland
In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with municipal decision-makers, this article identifies three frames within which publicly subsidised private ECEC provision and marketisation are rationalised: the pragmatic frame, the gover…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates: The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictio…
Managing the flow of private information on children and parents in poverty situations: Creating a panoptic eye in interorganizational networks
In this article, we discuss how the flow of private information about children and families in poverty situations is managed in interorganizational networks that aim to combat child poverty. Although practices for sharing information and documentation between child and family social work services are highly encouraged and recommended to create supportive features for parents and children, this development often results in undesirable forms of gov…
Positioning children with special educational needs in early childhood education and care documents
The article critically discusses the practice of describing children’s special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understood as a form of governance. In current practice, documentation is extensively used in educational institutions. Even when the focus of documentation should be pedagogical, the descriptions of children’s SEN commonly describe a child’s individual deficits…
Voicing the child? A case study in Finnish early childhood education
Contemporary Nordic early childhood education and care takes as its starting point the individual and 'competent' child and emphasizes the aim to take account of children's views. It is also common in educational settings that the child's views are documented and thus transformed into contexts in which they are discussed between the adults. In light of a case study of 22 parent-teacher meetings in Finnish early childhood education and care the ar…
Narration and Ritual Formation of Diasporic Identity: The Case of Second Generation Karelian Evacuees
The article is based on a case study of second generation Karelian migrants, whose parents had to move to other parts of Finland from the region of Karelia that was ceded to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. The article poses the question, how long-lived diasporic identities are, and what are the conditions that affect assimilation or maintenance of a diasporic identity. In the Karelian migrants' case, already the first generation was …
Narration and Ritual Formation of Diasporic Identity: The Case of Second Generation Karelian Evacuees
The article is based on a case study of second generation Karelian migrants, whose parents had to move to other parts of Finland from the region of Karelia that was ceded to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. The article poses the question, how long-lived diasporic identities are, and what are the conditions that affect assimilation or maintenance of a diasporic identity. In the Karelian migrants' case, already the first generation was …
Framing the Picture of the Child
The paper studies the forms that are used in planning for a child’s early childhood education and care in Finnish day care from the perspectives of social constructionism and discourse analysis. It asks how childhood is conceptualised in these forms and what are the social functions of early childhood education and care as implied in the conceptualisations. The paper shows that the conceptions of childhood and the understanding of the functions o…
My Dad Got Depression, or Something”: How Do Children Talk about Parental Mental Disorder
The research about children affected by parents with mental disorders has suggested that information and an understanding of the parent's problems are important factors in the child's resilience. Therefore, increasing the child's understanding has been defined as a key element in many preventive interventions. However, there is little research about children's conceptions of parental mental disorder. The article examines the discourses (vocabular…
The domestication of early childhood education plans in Finland
The article analyses how the implementation of early childhood education plans in Finland is linked with international trends and what happens in the process through which such worldwide ideals are domesticated to the local conditions. Through a detailed analysis of different stages of the process, the article sheds light on the question of how, to what extent and at which levels the national path of change is converged with those in other countr…
Voicing the child? A case study in Finnish early childhood education
Contemporary Nordic early childhood education and care takes as its starting point the individual and 'competent' child and emphasizes the aim to take account of children's views. It is also common in educational settings that the child's views are documented and thus transformed into contexts in which they are discussed between the adults. In light of a case study of 22 parent-teacher meetings in Finnish early childhood education and care the ar…
Documentation in Childhood
Documenting Napping: The Agentic Force of Documents and Human Action
The article examines the question of the agentic force of documents in institutional practices and proposes a conceptual model of the agentic relation between documentation and human actors. For this aim, it presents an empirical case study of Finnish early childhood education and care. The study deals with individual education plans (IEPs), which are an example of child documentation that aims at an individualised and participatory pedagogy. The…
Managing the flow of private information on children and parents in poverty situations: Creating a panoptic eye in interorganizational networks
In this article, we discuss how the flow of private information about children and families in poverty situations is managed in interorganizational networks that aim to combat child poverty. Although practices for sharing information and documentation between child and family social work services are highly encouraged and recommended to create supportive features for parents and children, this development often results in undesirable forms of gov…
Positioning children with special educational needs in early childhood education and care documents
The article critically discusses the practice of describing children’s special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understood as a form of governance. In current practice, documentation is extensively used in educational institutions. Even when the focus of documentation should be pedagogical, the descriptions of children’s SEN commonly describe a child’s individual deficits…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates: The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictio…
Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: The case of Finland
In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with municipal decision-makers, this article identifies three frames within which publicly subsidised private ECEC provision and marketisation are rationalised: the pragmatic frame, the gover…
The puzzles of daily life: The temporal orders of families when parents have non‐standard work schedules
This article investigates the temporal orders of families as the daily rhythms and schedules when one or both parents work non‐standard hours. Our focus is especially on the often asynchronous times of non‐standard work, on one hand, and of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and other institutions, on the other hand. The data consist of semi‐structured qualitative interviews of Finnish parents with a four‐year‐old child. The resul…
The changing policy ideals for parental cooperation in early childhood education and care
How parents spend time with their children, what they teach their children and how they raise them in the early years have again become topics of policymaking and public debate. There is an intensive discussion about parental involvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Starting Strong series provides ECEC policy guidelines for national governments that include guides for p…
Enrolling the child in private early childhood education and care in the context of universal service provision
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the other Nordic countries, but in the last 15 years this system has undergone considerable marketisation and privatisation suggested to enable parental choice of ECEC.Much of the existing research on parental ECEC decisions has been conducted in contexts where ECEC systems differ considerably from the welfare and educational regimes of the Nordic coun…
Dilemmas Related to Young Children's Participation and Rights: A Discourse Analysis Study of Present and Future Professionals Working with Children
According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), every child has the right to be heard and express their views in matters that concern them. Yet, participation is one of the most debated aspects of the UNCRC. Although children's participation is a statutory requirement of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) and schools, educators are often unfamiliar with how to meet the demands of participation. In thi…
Mothers' return-to-work reasons and work-family conflict: Does a Partner Involved in Childcare Make a Difference
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects again…
Interactional space for agency: Discussing photography with preschoolers
According to the latest research in both arts education and childhood studies, young children's agency is relational, entangled and negotiated. However, in early childhood visual arts education, modernist practices emphasising the independent and self-expressive child–agent are still recognisable. In this article, early childhood artistic activities are seen as a shared venue for interaction, social exchange and joint meaning-making, thereby prov…
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland
Parents` significance in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is emphasized in the research, but primarily from the perspective of ECEC professionals. Drawing on discursive institutionalism, we analysed what parents of young children in Finland constructed as essential in ECEC from the child`s point of view in their discussions concerning the forms of ECEC services. We found that parents constructed ECEC through two interconnected frames: en…
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: The roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes
As in the other Nordic welfare states, public ECEC system is seen as the cornerstone of the universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution in Finland. Many Finnish municipalities, however, support private ECEC service provision and parents’ possibility to choose ECEC services for their child, both of which indicate privatisation and marketisation of ECEC. This study examines parents’ (N = 781) ECEC decisions between public and pr…
Empowered, Strained, or Stable: Teachers’ Experiences of Occupational Well-Being During the Two-Year Pre-Primary Education Trial in Finland
Research Findings: This study investigated early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers’ experiences of occupational well-being during a two-year pre-primary education trial in Finland. Profile groups of the trial experimental group teachers (n = 376) were identified. We also examined whether the identified profiles differed with respect to different ECEC classroom and teacher professional characteristics. Through latent profile analysis, t…
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
From images to interaction: Examining the relationship between children's photography and types of dialogic interactions
Photo elicitation in early childhood education and care (ECEC) can facilitate various types of dialogic interactions between teachers and small groups of children. However, little is known about how the content of children's photographs and their perspectives on them relate to different forms of interactions. In the present study, we explored the themes of photographs taken and discussed by children and the extent to which photography assignments…
Teachers’ Occupational Well-Being in the Finnish Two-Year Pre-Primary Education Trial: A Person-Oriented Approach
This study focused on occupational well-being among early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers ( n = 409) participating in Finland’s two-year pre-primary education trial (2021–2024). We examined what kinds of occupational well-being profiles could be identified among the ECEC teachers and which teacher-related and contextual factors explained them. Based on latent profile analysis, three profiles were identified: thriving ( n = 250), with…
Engaged teachers are satisfied with their profession: Evidence from novice teachers in Finnish early childhood education and care and the links with their socio-demographic characteristics
Low retention among newly graduated teachers and high turnover among the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce have become an international concern. Though engaged teachers tend to report more job satisfaction and remain longer in their profession, research on novice ECEC teachers’ job satisfaction and work engagement is scarce. Thus, this study explores novice ECEC teachers’ evaluations of their work engagement and job satisfaction…
Goodness-of-Fit Between a 1-Year-Old’s Behavioral Tendencies and the Form of Child Care
The goodness-of-fit model suggests that interplay between a child’s behavioral tendencies and their environment, such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) context, is a key factor in promoting child’s well-being in early childhood. Using survey data from Finnish parents with a 1-year-old child, we investigate: differences in seven behavioral tendencies (e.g., Activity level, Irritability) among children in different forms of childcare; va…
Early childhood education (18 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Early childhood (12 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Child care (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (9 works) · Political science (9 works)