A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care : experiences of Finnish parents and educators (2019)
Rönkä, A., Turja, L., Malinen, K., Tammelin, M., & Kekkonen, M. (2019). Flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care : experiences of Finnish parents and educators. Early Years, 39(4), 376-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2017.1387519
JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat
Julkaisun tiedot
Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Rönkä, Anna; Turja, Leena; Malinen, Kaisa; Tammelin, Mia; Kekkonen, Marjatta
Lehti tai sarja: Early Years
ISSN: 0957-5146
eISSN: 1472-4421
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Volyymi: 39
Lehden numero: 4
Artikkelin sivunumerot: 376-391
Kustantaja: Routledge
Julkaisumaa: Britannia
Julkaisun kieli: englanti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2017.1387519
Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Ei avoin
Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus:
Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67127
Tiivistelmä
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.
YSO-asiasanat: varhaiskasvatus; vanhemmat; työaika; epätyypillinen työ; joustavuus
Vapaat asiasanat: epäsäännöllinen työaika
Liittyvät organisaatiot
OKM-raportointi: Kyllä
Raportointivuosi: 2019
JUFO-taso: 1
