Mia Heikkilä
Biographic Data
| ID | 6724810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mia Heikkilä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mia |
| FAMILY NAME | Heikkilä |
| SIGNATURE | HEIKKILÄ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3361-348X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Story of the ‘Kitchen Furniture’ in Ecec—Challenging Norms and Ideas Around Gender and Play
The Swedish National Curriculum for Preschools states that “the environment in the preschool should inspire and challenge children to broaden their abilities and interests without being constrained by gender stereotyped perceptions”. The aim of a three-year research and development (R&D) project was to both analyse and recreate early childhood education and care (ECEC) units’ indoor spaces, aiming at creating an indoor educational environment tha…
The gap between juridical and pedagogical discourses concerning preventing and countering abusive treatment in preschool policy documents
The basic idea of a Swedish preschool is that it is a place where children can learn and experience growth in a variety of areas, not least in the social area. According to the Education Act all preschools must annually document and evaluate planned work to prevent and remedy abusive treatment. The aim of this article is to analyse if and how the discursive gap between the juridical and pedagogical assignments given to preschools in national poli…
Multilingual educational teaching strategy in a multi-ethnic preschool
The revised Swedish national curriculum stresses that preschools should, on the one hand, place emphasis on stimulating children’s language development in Swedish, while on the other hand help children with a mother tongue other than Swedish develop their mother tongue. The aim of this study is to analyse preschool teachers’ strategies to develop multilingualism in daily life in preschools. The analysis was conducted by analysing their reflection…
Exclusion and limitation through favouritism as a strategy in children’s play negotiations
This study focuses on a close examination of how children express themselves at ECEC in play situations, which form an integral and large part of a typical day. The main research question has been: How can children’s social and emotional expressions be understood through analyses of communication and interaction during free play? A qualitative approach has been deemed suitable for this study, since it can provide insight into children’s social in…
Finnish teachers’ participation in local curriculum development
For many years, teachers have been involved in developing the national curricula in Finland in various ways. Teachers’ involvement in curriculum design and implementation has, during the last national curriculum implementation process, increased locally to strengthen their confidence in and knowledge of the national curriculum’s multifaceted content. The purpose of this article is to broaden the knowledge of teacher involvement in the recent curr…
De/gendering violence and racialising blame in Swedish child welfare
This article is a critical interrogation of how gender and power figure in Swedish child welfare policy and the discourses on violence in intimate relationships vis-à-vis children exposed to violence. Drawing on feminist violence research, critical childhood studies, and intersectional perspectives, we identify a differentiation with racialised undertones in the understanding of violence as a social problem when related to children’s exposure. Wh…
Gender equality work in preschools and early childhood education settings in the Nordic countries—an empirically based illustration
This article aims to describe and find ways to understand the practical gender equality work that is going on to promote gender equality in preschools in the Nordic countries. Gender equality in this article is broadly understood as a process of developing higher “gender awareness” (Lahelma, 2014 Educ Res 56(2): 171–183; Subrahmanian, 2005 Int J Educ Dev 25(4): 395–407) in a preschool organization and the analysis is performed through a poststruc…
Differentiations in Visibility-Male Advantages and Female Disadvantages in Gender-Segregated Programmes
This article stresses the importance of understanding that women and men in gender-segregated programmes experience their gender minority positions very differently. It stems from an interest in the kind of interventions that academia should address in order to reduce gender segregation and provide women and men with the same educational opportunities and personal development. In relation to the obvious and continuing gender differences along a h…
Changing the gender balance in preschools
The focus of this study is to examine seven municipalities that, in different ways, are working to recruit more men to work in preschools. The aim of the study is to identify different ways of working to recruit more men to work in preschools and to effect a change in the gender imbalance among the working staff in preschools. Relational agency is used as a conceptual tool in the analysis together with theories of organisational learning and chan…
Análisis de la revista decimonónica La Violeta
Este trabajo aborda el análisis de la revista La Violeta (1862-1864), una de las más interesantes publicaciones de la época isabelina, destacándose sus aspectos formales y de interés periodístico Se destaca asimismo la nómina de colaboradores, y se analiza su contenido, evolución, y el papel representado por la revista y su directora Faustina Sáez de Melgar en la educación de las mujeres
Multilingual educational teaching strategy in a multi-ethnic preschool
The revised Swedish national curriculum stresses that preschools should, on the one hand, place emphasis on stimulating children’s language development in Swedish, while on the other hand help children with a mother tongue other than Swedish develop their mother tongue. The aim of this study is to analyse preschool teachers’ strategies to develop multilingualism in daily life in preschools. The analysis was conducted by analysing their reflection…
Exclusion and limitation through favouritism as a strategy in children’s play negotiations
This study focuses on a close examination of how children express themselves at ECEC in play situations, which form an integral and large part of a typical day. The main research question has been: How can children’s social and emotional expressions be understood through analyses of communication and interaction during free play? A qualitative approach has been deemed suitable for this study, since it can provide insight into children’s social in…
Differentiations in Visibility-Male Advantages and Female Disadvantages in Gender-Segregated Programmes
This article stresses the importance of understanding that women and men in gender-segregated programmes experience their gender minority positions very differently. It stems from an interest in the kind of interventions that academia should address in order to reduce gender segregation and provide women and men with the same educational opportunities and personal development. In relation to the obvious and continuing gender differences along a h…
Changing the gender balance in preschools
The focus of this study is to examine seven municipalities that, in different ways, are working to recruit more men to work in preschools. The aim of the study is to identify different ways of working to recruit more men to work in preschools and to effect a change in the gender imbalance among the working staff in preschools. Relational agency is used as a conceptual tool in the analysis together with theories of organisational learning and chan…
Análisis de la revista decimonónica La Violeta
Este trabajo aborda el análisis de la revista La Violeta (1862-1864), una de las más interesantes publicaciones de la época isabelina, destacándose sus aspectos formales y de interés periodístico Se destaca asimismo la nómina de colaboradores, y se analiza su contenido, evolución, y el papel representado por la revista y su directora Faustina Sáez de Melgar en la educación de las mujeres
Análisis de la revista decimonónica La Violeta
Este trabajo aborda el análisis de la revista La Violeta (1862-1864), una de las más interesantes publicaciones de la época isabelina, destacándose sus aspectos formales y de interés periodístico Se destaca asimismo la nómina de colaboradores, y se analiza su contenido, evolución, y el papel representado por la revista y su directora Faustina Sáez de Melgar en la educación de las mujeres
Changing the gender balance in preschools
The focus of this study is to examine seven municipalities that, in different ways, are working to recruit more men to work in preschools. The aim of the study is to identify different ways of working to recruit more men to work in preschools and to effect a change in the gender imbalance among the working staff in preschools. Relational agency is used as a conceptual tool in the analysis together with theories of organisational learning and chan…
Gender equality work in preschools and early childhood education settings in the Nordic countries—an empirically based illustration
This article aims to describe and find ways to understand the practical gender equality work that is going on to promote gender equality in preschools in the Nordic countries. Gender equality in this article is broadly understood as a process of developing higher “gender awareness” (Lahelma, 2014 Educ Res 56(2): 171–183; Subrahmanian, 2005 Int J Educ Dev 25(4): 395–407) in a preschool organization and the analysis is performed through a poststruc…
Differentiations in Visibility-Male Advantages and Female Disadvantages in Gender-Segregated Programmes
This article stresses the importance of understanding that women and men in gender-segregated programmes experience their gender minority positions very differently. It stems from an interest in the kind of interventions that academia should address in order to reduce gender segregation and provide women and men with the same educational opportunities and personal development. In relation to the obvious and continuing gender differences along a h…
Finnish teachers’ participation in local curriculum development
For many years, teachers have been involved in developing the national curricula in Finland in various ways. Teachers’ involvement in curriculum design and implementation has, during the last national curriculum implementation process, increased locally to strengthen their confidence in and knowledge of the national curriculum’s multifaceted content. The purpose of this article is to broaden the knowledge of teacher involvement in the recent curr…
De/gendering violence and racialising blame in Swedish child welfare
This article is a critical interrogation of how gender and power figure in Swedish child welfare policy and the discourses on violence in intimate relationships vis-à-vis children exposed to violence. Drawing on feminist violence research, critical childhood studies, and intersectional perspectives, we identify a differentiation with racialised undertones in the understanding of violence as a social problem when related to children’s exposure. Wh…
Exclusion and limitation through favouritism as a strategy in children’s play negotiations
This study focuses on a close examination of how children express themselves at ECEC in play situations, which form an integral and large part of a typical day. The main research question has been: How can children’s social and emotional expressions be understood through analyses of communication and interaction during free play? A qualitative approach has been deemed suitable for this study, since it can provide insight into children’s social in…
The gap between juridical and pedagogical discourses concerning preventing and countering abusive treatment in preschool policy documents
The basic idea of a Swedish preschool is that it is a place where children can learn and experience growth in a variety of areas, not least in the social area. According to the Education Act all preschools must annually document and evaluate planned work to prevent and remedy abusive treatment. The aim of this article is to analyse if and how the discursive gap between the juridical and pedagogical assignments given to preschools in national poli…
Multilingual educational teaching strategy in a multi-ethnic preschool
The revised Swedish national curriculum stresses that preschools should, on the one hand, place emphasis on stimulating children’s language development in Swedish, while on the other hand help children with a mother tongue other than Swedish develop their mother tongue. The aim of this study is to analyse preschool teachers’ strategies to develop multilingualism in daily life in preschools. The analysis was conducted by analysing their reflection…
A Story of the ‘Kitchen Furniture’ in Ecec—Challenging Norms and Ideas Around Gender and Play
The Swedish National Curriculum for Preschools states that “the environment in the preschool should inspire and challenge children to broaden their abilities and interests without being constrained by gender stereotyped perceptions”. The aim of a three-year research and development (R&D) project was to both analyse and recreate early childhood education and care (ECEC) units’ indoor spaces, aiming at creating an indoor educational environment tha…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Curriculum (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)