Alli Paasikivi foundation has granted Outi Arvola 21 000 euro for studying Multicultural children in early childhood education. The grant will help Outi to get the results of the Orientation to support the inclusion and well-being of multicultural children and their families.
Municipality representatives (click for a bigger picture)
In Finland, we have 12 cities and municipalities participating in the observation. In a meeting 11 April, we had a meeting with the municipalities’ representatives to plan the best possible observation training. We have two aims: Firstly, we need to have a valid and reliable observation. Secondly, we need to take good care of the observers. They need to get an experience of doing an important job. They also need to acquire personal development and insight by doing the observation. We need to build a system that the observers want to stick with, to ensure a sustainable and evolving progressive feedback.
Taru Terho studied leadership in day care centres and its connection with children’s everyday activities in the setting. The main finding has been that the directors’ views and ways to conduct pedagogical leadership was connected with children’s everyday activities. Leadership was not just about management or staff leadership, it had connections with children’s experiences. The connections were measured by totally independent measures of observation and directors’ evaluations, which increase the reliability of the findings. For example, good leadership was connected with good quality play in the day care centre. Unfortunately, only Taru’s abstract is in English.
Unfortunately our results describing children’s physical activity in Early Education are published only in Finnish. The first small article about our latest results in English has just been published in Nursery World. Even though there are still a lot of things to enhance in Finland, there may also be some things that could be used in other countries too, see Jyrki Reunamo: Physical activity: some lessons from Finland).
The Early Childhood Education SIEE EXPO (Shanghai International ICT Expo for Early Childhood Education & Shanghai International Franchise Expo for Educational Brand) in Shanghai was held 9-13 March 2017. The expo is the largest Early Childhood expo for enterprises in the world. Progressive Feedback provides possibilities both for enterprises and China as nation.