From Universalism to Selectivity? The Background, Discourses and Ideas of Recent Early Childhood Education and Care Reforms in Finland

Autor/inn/en	Lundkvist, Marina; Nyby, Josefine; Autto, Janne; Nygård, Mikael
Titel	From Universalism to Selectivity? The Background, Discourses and Ideas of Recent Early Childhood Education and Care Reforms in Finland
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 187 (2017) 10, S.1543-1556 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lundkvist, Marina) ORCID (Nyby, Josefine) ORCID (Autto, Janne) ORCID (Nygård, Mikael)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2017.1295041
Schlagwörter	Access to Education; Early Childhood Education; Child Care; Foreign Countries; Human Capital; Well Being; Teaching Methods; Educational Change; Employed Parents; Public Policy; Social Mobility; Sex Fairness; Mothers; Educational Quality; Qualitative Research; Content Analysis; Policy Analysis; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Early childhood; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Humankapital; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Ordnung; Soziale Mobilität; Sexualaufklärung; Mother; Mutter; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitative Forschung; Inhaltsanalyse; Politikfeldanalyse; Finnland
Abstract	Universal public childcare for children under seven has been central in Finland since the mid-1990s, capacitating both gender equality and children's human capital and wellbeing. In 2015, as a further step in the development of this system, early learning and childhood pedagogy was strengthened through the early childhood education and care (ECEC) reform (statute 580/2015). Some months later, however, the right to full-day ECEC was restricted to children with employed parents (statute 108/2016). This paper discusses the objectives, framing and ideational drivers of these reforms on the basis of government bills and parliamentary debates. We argue that the development reflects a shift in emphasis from a universal and child-oriented social mobility ECEC rationale to a more austere rationale focussing on parents' and notably mothers' employment. We believe that the reforms will have negative effects on the quality of ECEC and increase inequalities in children's human capital and learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01