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Partnership between Parents and Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners

Partnership between Parents and Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners. Home visiting as a partnership practise in Day Care Services in Finland Marjatta Kekkonen Project Planning Officer STAKES. The Educational Partnership in Day Care Services in Finland.

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Partnership between Parents and Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners

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  1. Marjatta Kekkonen Partnership between Parents and Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners Home visiting as a partnership practise in Day Care Services in Finland Marjatta KekkonenProject Planning Officer STAKES

  2. Marjatta Kekkonen The Educational Partnership in Day Care Services in Finland • The Finnish National Curriculum Guidelines on Early Childhood Education and Care,2003 • => educational partnership • The Educational Partnership Project(2003-05) • => Educational Partnership Training Programme => home visit introduced

  3. Marjatta Kekkonen During the home visit the professional is expected to • Become acquainted with a new child • Promote a fluent and safe start of the child's day care process • Create a firm ground for the child's personal ECEC-plan • Employ responsive listening to parents' expectations on the day care • Build the partnership relationship between parents and caregivers

  4. Marjatta Kekkonen What discursive meanings professionals do give to educational partnership? Group Diskussions (13) • Semi- • Structured • Face-to-Face • Interviews • (6) Peer Interviews (3) Recognizing and categorizing the emerging themes. What ECEC-practitioners talk about, when they discuss partnership? Discourses of partnership practises at day care center Discourses of Home Visiting Discourses of partnership practises In other interaction contexts

  5. Marjatta Kekkonen Research Findings • What discursive meanings ECEC professionals do give to home visiting as a partnership practise? The Child Centred Discourse The Family Centred Discourse The Professional Centred Discourse The Service Centred Discourse

  6. Marjatta Kekkonen Research Findings • What discursive meanings ECEC professionals do give to home visiting as a partnership practise? • The Child Centred Discourse • Active social actor • Active relationship builder • The competent child • The Family Centred Discourse • Parents as active actors • Parents as protectors • Parents as too close partners

  7. Marjatta Kekkonen Research Findings • What discursive meanings ECEC professionals do give to home visiting as a partnership practise? • The Service Centred Discourse • Renaming – the initial conversation, the introductory discussion • The risk talk – stigmatization • Social work tradition in home visiting practises • The Professional Centred Discourse • Professional vs. unprofessional way • getting to know families • professional vs. friendship based partnership

  8. Marjatta Kekkonen Implications of the Research Findings • Re-evaluation of roles • Professional’s role as partnership builder • parent‘s role as active participant • Child’s role as a competent relationship builder • Pedagogical contribution of home visiting

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