BIP Exploring Finnish Early Childhood Education Principles and Practice 2025 (3 ECTS)
Code: SX00GL79-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 02.07.2024 - 31.07.2024
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
- Implementation is running.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 3 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Unit
- School of Wellbeing
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Social Services (in English)
- Teachers
- Sylvia Hakari
- Mona Laine
- Course
- SX00GL79
Objective
The students understand the diversity of everyday life in childhood and family and recognize the contributory factors to well-being of children and families. The students recognize the changes regarding both childhood and the concept of childhood and the prevailing situation in the Finnish society and globally. The students understand the importance of childhood and early childhood education in supporting inclusion, preventing exclusion and in educational equality.
Content
The contributory factors to well-being of the child and the family. The UN convention on the Rights of the Child and the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care. Social integration, family poverty, exclusion and marginalization from the perspectives of families with children and early childhood education. Forms of early support. A resource-based perspective.
Evaluation scale
0-5