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Parental Partnerships in Early Childhood Education : A Document Analysis of Teacher Education Programs and Policy Documents in Sweden and Finland (2023)

Yngvesson, T., Harju-Luukkainen, H., & Garvis, S. (2023). Parental Partnerships in Early Childhood Education : A Document Analysis of Teacher Education Programs and Policy Documents in Sweden and Finland. In S. Alisauskiene, N. Bahdanovich Hanssen, & D. Kairienė (Eds.), Interprofessional and Family-Professional Collaboration for Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care (pp. 213-228). Palgrave Macmillan. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34023-9_13

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Yngvesson, Tina; Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi; Garvis, Susanne

Parent publication: Interprofessional and Family-Professional Collaboration for Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care

Parent publication editors: Alisauskiene, Stefanija; Bahdanovich Hanssen, Natallia; Kairienė, Daiva

ISBN: 978-3-031-34022-2

eISBN: 978-3-031-34023-9

Journal or series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood

ISSN: 2731-636X

Publication year: 2023

Publication date: 05/08/2023

Pages range: 213-228

Number of pages in the book: 344

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place of Publication: Cham

Publication country: Switzerland

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34023-9_13

Publication open access: Not open

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Abstract

The importance of establishing successful partnerships between home and early childhood education is well established in the policies of the Nordic countries. Both Finland and Sweden acknowledged requirements for strong collaboration between home and early childhood environments in their national early childhood education curriculums. One major challenge in achieving such successful partnerships, however, is the content of teacher education programs and the subsequent development of teachers’ relevant competencies during their educational path. This chapter aims to investigate national policy documents regarding parental collaboration and the curriculum contents of one Finnish and one Swedish early childhood teacher education programs regarding parental collaboration with the help of document analysis. According to the results multiple differences as well as similarities across them were found.

Keywords: early childhood education and care; ECEC partnership; documents; early childhood education and care teachers; teacher training; competence

Free keywords: document analysis; partnership; teacher education programs; family-professional collaboration

Contributing organizations

Ministry reporting: Yes

Reporting Year: 2023

JUFO rating: 3