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• Language orientations in early childhood education policy in Finland and Norway 

  Alstad, Gunhild Tomter; Sopanen, Pauliina (Routledge, 2021)

  This article investigates the language orientations in education policy documents for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland and Norway. Finland, an officially bilingual country, and Norway, a predominantly ...

• Positioning children with special educational needs in early childhood education and care documents 

  Heiskanen, Noora; Alasuutari, Maarit; Vehkakoski, Tanja (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)

  The article critically discusses the practice of describing children’s special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understood as a form of governance. ...

• Adaptation and implementation of the German social-emotional learning programme Papilio in Finland : A pilot study 

  Koivula, Merja; Laakso, Marja-Leena; Viitala, Riitta; Neitola, Marita; Hess, Markus; Scheithauer, Herbert (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2020)

  This study investigated the cross‐national adaptation and implementation of Papilio, a German social–emotional learning programme, in Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres. Papilio is a developmentally ...

• Epistemic governance in local policy debates : The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland 

  Paananen, Maiju; Alasuutari, Maarit; Karila, Kirsti; Siippainen, Anna (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. ...

• Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care : the case of Finland 

  Ruutiainen, Ville; Alasuutari, Maarit; Karila, Kirsti (Routledge, 2020)

  In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. ...