Browsing by Author "Auvinen, Vilma"

The purpose of this study was to find out how children´s participation appear in early childhood education´s visual art education. This study was done as a systematic literature review using data from literature that addresses visual arts in early childhood education. The goal of this study was to find out how the different qualifications of participation and sense of community are valued in the used data. References of participation and sense of community in the used data are viewed in this study. In this study children´s participation was viewed with seven different qualifications. These seven different qualifications are suitable to be used in a study of early childhood education. Viewing references of sense of community in the used data was also part of this study. This study was done by using six different bibliographies that address visual arts in early childhood education. These six different bibliographies were articles, literature and one doctoral thesis. The collected data was then studied with a perspective of participation and sense of community. Then references to the seven different qualifications of participation were looked for in the used data. Different references of sense of community were also looked for in this study. All the findings in the used data were documented and collected. In this study the seven different qualifications of participation are addressed one qualification at a time. Sense of community is addressed as individual chapter. This study was done as a systematic literature review, but this study has also some indicates of a use of grounded theory. References of the seven different qualifications of participation were found in the used data. Only one of the seven different qualifications were not found in all used bibliographies. Sense of community however was found in all bibliographies. This study shows that correctly done visual art education in early childhood education can support children´s participation and sense of community.