Early Child Care and Education in Finland

Abstract

1. How do the Finnish family policy and early education system support the well-being, happiness, and success of families and children? Part I: The realisation and evaluation of early childhood education in Finland 2. Evaluating the quality of the child care in Finland 3. Individual plans for children in transition to pre-school: a case study in one Finnish day-care centre 4. Sami education in Finland Part II: Perspectives on children's well-being 5. Having, loving, and being: children's narrated well-being in Finnish day care centres 6. Cortisol levels and children's orientation in day care 7. Bullying in early educational settings 8. Young children's well-being in Finnish stepfamilies 9. Care of the other's selfhood: a view on child care and education through Heidegger's analytic of Dasein Part III: Special viewpoints on early childhood education, care, and research in Finland 10. Accelerating early language development with multi-sensory training 11. How were the pupils dressed in a country village in northern Finland in 1909-1939? 12. The child diary as a research tool 13. Experts or good educators - or both? The development of early childhood educators' expertise in Finland