In Finland, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) system has been based on the idea of universalism. Universalism has meant, for example, families’ universal entitlement to ECEC and public sector responsibility for ECEC provision. However, since the late 1990s, the Finnish ECEC system has seen increasing marketization and privatization. Many municipalities have started to support private, non-profit and for-profit ECEC provision. As a result, especially during the 2010s, the share of private provision has increased somewhat rapidly. At the same time, municipalities have started to provide demand-side subsidies for families to enable their ECEC selection. Thus, the ECEC system has become increasingly shaped by market logic. Earlier r...
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early ch...
Finland has gone through considerable reforms in early childhood education and care in recent years,...
In this article, we utilize an application of Deleuze and Quattari’s (1987) concept of assemblage to...
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the ...
Universal public childcare for children under seven has been central in Finland since the mid-1990s,...
In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, p...
There is a growing awareness of the importance of young children’s education and care: they have an ...
The marketisation and privatisation of welfare services such as early childhood education and care (...
Extensive public debate is being waged across mature welfare states as to whether social services ar...
The aim of the article is to revisit the principle of universalism and analyze how it has changed in...
The focus of this study is in private sector kindergartens early childhood special education in Hels...
Until about 25 years ago, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland used a bureaucratic-professio...
Tiivistelmä - Referat – Abstract Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastelen varhaiskasvatuksen kau...
Based on thematic interviews in ten Finnish municipalities, the study examined the institutions of f...
In 2015–2016, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture participated in an OECD project on trans...
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early ch...
Finland has gone through considerable reforms in early childhood education and care in recent years,...
In this article, we utilize an application of Deleuze and Quattari’s (1987) concept of assemblage to...
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the ...
Universal public childcare for children under seven has been central in Finland since the mid-1990s,...
In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, p...
There is a growing awareness of the importance of young children’s education and care: they have an ...
The marketisation and privatisation of welfare services such as early childhood education and care (...
Extensive public debate is being waged across mature welfare states as to whether social services ar...
The aim of the article is to revisit the principle of universalism and analyze how it has changed in...
The focus of this study is in private sector kindergartens early childhood special education in Hels...
Until about 25 years ago, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland used a bureaucratic-professio...
Tiivistelmä - Referat – Abstract Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastelen varhaiskasvatuksen kau...
Based on thematic interviews in ten Finnish municipalities, the study examined the institutions of f...
In 2015–2016, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture participated in an OECD project on trans...
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early ch...
Finland has gone through considerable reforms in early childhood education and care in recent years,...
In this article, we utilize an application of Deleuze and Quattari’s (1987) concept of assemblage to...