Children’s Right to Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care
An Analysis in Finnish Policy Documents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12191908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan-Erik Mansikka (Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Corresponding author [email protected]), Jan‐Erik Mansikka (0000-0001-6776-3860, University of Helsinki, corresponding author), Marina Lundkvist (0000-0001-9740-5845, Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 232-257 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Children s Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0927-5568 • E-ISSN: 1571-8182 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718182-30010009 |
| OpenAlex | W4213256438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
Finland has gone through considerable reforms in early childhood education and care in recent years, with a new Act followed by a new National Core Curriculum (2018). The reforms have implied much more emphasis on both education and children’s perspectives. Because of the changes, we are interested in what role the concept of children’s rights, and more particularly children’s right to participation, has had in this recent development. Our analysis of the recent curriculum in Finland shows three different ways of describing children’s right to participate: social, political and learning dimensions on participation. Moreover, we could see that each dimension contained two poles, oscillating between children’s autonomy and interdependence. We believe that finding new ways of describing children’s rights to participate will help professionals working within ecec to overcome the gap between theory and practice
Autonomy · Curriculum · Developmental psychology · Dimension (graph theory · Early childhood · Early childhood education · Economic growth · Economics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Psychology
Becoming Citizens in a Changing World
Education at a Glance 2019
Democracy, caring and competence
The Rights of Others
Risking Ourselves in Education
Hermeneutics and Social Science
The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market
Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach
Children as ‘Being and Becomings’
Taking a Step Away from Modernity
Human Rights Education as Democratic Education
Why Children have Rights
Human rights education
Researching children’s rights in education
Voice’ is not enough
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |