Kirsti Karila
Biographic Data
| ID | 6156907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsti Karila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsti |
| FAMILY NAME | Karila |
| SIGNATURE | KARILA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6233-2615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sociomaterial production of parents’ positions in the Ecec institution
Much of the discussion about parents’ positions in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution relates to the discussion of ECEC quality, in which parental involvement is a key factor. This article suggests that focusing on the sociomaterial nature of the reality, including quality, will help to furnish a more nuanced view of how parents’ positions within the ECEC institution are shaped. The concept of assemblage is used as a tool t…
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…
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…
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours
This study examined talk by parents about the early years transitions of their children ( n = 7) in the context of parental non‐standard working hours and Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Parents were interviewed at three time points: when their child was aged one, four, five or six years (a total of 21 interviews). The third interview was conducted during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article focuses on the children's EC…
Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care
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
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates
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
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…
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours
This study examined talk by parents about the early years transitions of their children ( n = 7) in the context of parental non‐standard working hours and Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Parents were interviewed at three time points: when their child was aged one, four, five or six years (a total of 21 interviews). The third interview was conducted during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article focuses on the children's EC…
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…
Sociomaterial production of parents’ positions in the Ecec institution
Much of the discussion about parents’ positions in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution relates to the discussion of ECEC quality, in which parental involvement is a key factor. This article suggests that focusing on the sociomaterial nature of the reality, including quality, will help to furnish a more nuanced view of how parents’ positions within the ECEC institution are shaped. The concept of assemblage is used as a tool t…
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…
Early childhood education (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Child care (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Early childhood (3 works)