Striving at Partnership: Parent-Practitioner Relationships in Finnish Early Educators' Talk

Autor/in	Alasuutari, Maarit
Titel	Striving at Partnership: Parent-Practitioner Relationships in Finnish Early Educators' Talk
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 18 (2010) 2, S.149-161 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Child Care; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Parent Participation; Parent Caregiver Relationship; Preschool Teachers; Child Caregivers; Caregiver Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Interviews; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Elternmitwirkung; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Lehrerverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Finnland
Abstract	In Finnish early childhood education and care, partnership has been introduced as a general approach in the parent-practitioner collaboration. Based on qualitative interviews with practitioners, the article studies, from a social constructionist and discourse analytic perspective, whether partnership is actualised in parent-practitioner relationship and how it is done. The results show that the ideas about parent-practitioner collaboration are not coherent. In the vertical frame the collaboration is considered as a hierarchical relationship but in the horizontal frame, which reflects the partnership approach, parallel expertise and proximity are emphasised. However, the ideal of partnership seems to lead to varying interpretations about what partnership and parent participation mean in practice. (Contains 7 excerpts and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10