Striving at partnership: parent–practitioner relationships in Finnish early educators' talk

Introduction to preschool: strategies for managing the gap between home and preschool

“…Furthermore, a lack of outspoken rules and routinesthat is, explicit or implicit discourses of how to behave as a 'normal' preschool child or parent -can also be experienced as problematic in meetings between the actors (Alasuutari & Markström, 2011;Markström, 2011). In Alasuutari's (2010) interview study of preschool teachers in Finland, she showed how parents and teachers act in a complementary way as partners possessing different knowledge that is needed to solve a joint task: caring for an individual child.…”

Professionals' understanding of partnership with parents in the context of family support programmes

“…This discourse, however, may obscure what really happens within different child welfare practices. Partnerships are ‘developed in various ways in different contexts’ (Alasuutari , p. 150), and therefore ‘the partnership construction can take on different forms in practice’ (Roose et al . ).…”

The early childhood education and care partnership for bilingualism in minority language schooling: collaboration between bilingual families and pedagogical practitioners

“…The partnerships seem to be built on parental trust that the professional knowledge of practitioners will work for the best interest of the child (Alasuutari 2010 The practitioner reported that she would find it more natural if parents talked only Swedish at home because the city itself was unilingual in Finnish. The child in question was more fluent in Finnish and the practitioner felt that the parents should support Swedish more than they did.…”