Selectivity of clientele in finnish private early childhood education and care

Ruutiainen, Ville; Alasuutari, Maarit; Karila, Kirsti

doi:10.1080/20020317.2021.1911161

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“…ECEC in Finland is primarily organised by the public sector, although the proportion of privately provided ECEC has increased in the present millennium (Ruutiainen et al, 2021). ECEC services with extended opening hours are provided in Finland in ECEC centres, family day-care centres and family day-care or children's homes depending on, for example, the size of the municipality (Malinen et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Finnish Contextmentioning

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Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours

2022

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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 ECEC transitions and the interpretative frames used by parents when talking about their work and childcare. The frames used by the parents to discuss the children's transitions were stabilising the children's lives, balancing between staying at home and attending ECEC and adjusting to norms and rules. The diversity of families' experiences and their children's transitions during the early years should be considered when developing family policy and ECEC services. K E Y W O R D S childcare arrangements, COVID-19 pandemic, discourse analysis, early childhood education and care, early years transitions, horizontal transitions, life transitions, non-standard working hours, vertical transitions

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Section: The Finnish Contextmentioning

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Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours

2022

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“…Our study focuses on immigrant mothers' talk about encounters with the personnel of ECEC institutions in Helsinki, Finland. We consider both kindergarten and playground services public, because the use of private kindergartens is also financially supported in Finland (see Ruutiainen, Alasuutari, & Karila, 2021). In 2020, 37% of 1‐year‐old children attended daycare and 84% of 3‐year‐olds (Säkkinen & Kuoppala, 2021).…”

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‘Hey, teach these kids to eat their own food!’: Institutional intergroup contact in immigrant mothers' talk

Paajanen,

Finell,

Riikonen

et al. 2023

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Although informal segregation often persists in multiethnic neighbourhoods, local institutions offering public services may act as an important setting for intergroup contact. Therefore, we studied how immigrant mothers of young children discursively construct institutional intergroup contact with workers of public playgrounds and kindergartens. We conducted longitudinal interviews with 10 immigrant mothers three times over the period of a year in 2 multi‐ethnic neighbourhoods in Helsinki, Finland. Using Critical Discursive Psychology, we analysed respondents' talk about the encounters and identified three interpretative repertoires: ‘contact as asserting rights’, ‘contact as helping’, and ‘contact as cultural rectification’. Our analysis showed how mothers positioned themselves and the workers differently in terms of agency and power in each repertoire. Our findings stress the importance of studying people's own sense‐making of institutional contact, with different roles for participants, and that construction of agency within institutional contact is important for building equal membership in society. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

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“…Arrabal and Zhang 2016; Dýrfjöd and Magnúsdottir, 2016; Haug, 2014) it is not yet understood in a nuanced way. Furthermore, research on privatisation in the Finnish context is still relatively meagre (see, however, Ruutiainen et al, 2020, 2021).…”

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Is Finnish early childhood education going private? – Legislative steps and local policy actors’ representations of privatisation

Laiho

Pihlaja

2022

Policy Futures in Education

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In this article, we contribute to the research on the process of privatisation of Finnish early childhood education (ECE), describe how the privatisation has proceeded within the legal framework and how profit making has become possible in ECE. Furthermore, we analyse how local key policy actors justify the privatisation of ECE and what the problems represented to be in local privatisation policy are. The data for the first part of this research were chosen from critical legislative changes concerning private daycare/ECE from a period 1973 to 2018. The second part of our research data consists of in-depth interviews with two leading managers in ECE administration and two politicians in one Finnish municipality. The findings reveal that privatisation has become part of Finnish ECE through tacit and invisible steps, both in legislation and in municipal services illustrating hidden privatisation. At the national level, the process towards private ECE has been a part of social and health care reforms without a deep analysis of daycare/ECE and the needs of this service. At the local level, the privatisation of ECE was seen as an attempt to address economic problems as well as challenges in the balance between the supply of and the demand for ECE services.

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Selectivity of clientele in finnish private early childhood education and care

Cited by 11 publications

References 65 publications

Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours

Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours

‘Hey, teach these kids to eat their own food!’: Institutional intergroup contact in immigrant mothers' talk

Is Finnish early childhood education going private? – Legislative steps and local policy actors’ representations of privatisation

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