دورية أكاديمية

Flexibly Scheduled Early Childhood Education and Care: Experiences of Finnish Parents and Educators

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Flexibly Scheduled Early Childhood Education and Care: Experiences of Finnish Parents and Educators
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Rönkä, Anna, Turja, Leena, Malinen, Kaisa, Tammelin, Mia, Kekkonen, Marjatta
المصدر: Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development. 2019 39(4):376-391.
الإتاحة: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
تاريخ النشر: 2019
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Flexible Scheduling, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Caregivers, Working Hours, One Parent Family, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Public Education, Family Characteristics, Barriers
مصطلحات جغرافية: Finland
DOI: 10.1080/09575146.2017.1387519
تدمد: 0957-5146
مستخلص: This study focuses on flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC), an institutional childcare service for Finnish families where both parents, or a single parent, work non-standard hours. Although many countries nowadays offer extended hours day care, only Finland has a publicly provided, law-based system guaranteeing ECEC during non-standard as well as standard hours. We explore, drawing on parental survey data, what kinds of families use such services and when. Furthermore, we utilise web-survey data obtained from early educators to find out what they report as the main challenges involved in implementing flexibly scheduled ECEC. The results showed that single-parent families and lower educated parents were over-represented among the families using flexibly scheduled ECEC. The unpredictability of working-life tends to spill over to ECEC. Due to varying parental work schedules, children have unique daily and weekly rhythms, which in turn impact on administration, pedagogical issues and meeting children's needs.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2019
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1231758
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:0957-5146
DOI:10.1080/09575146.2017.1387519