Browsing by Author "Puhakka, Tuila"

The study investigates the action culture in Vironniemi day care centre that emphasizes participation and communality. The focus is to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of Vironniemi concerning participation from the educators’ perspective. During decades, the pedagogy of Vironniemi has developed through the values and customs in the action culture. The framework of this study consists of Edgar H. Schein’s (1985) organizational culture model and the participation of children, their parents and the staff in the early childhood education. The approach of this study is qualitative case study. The data was acquired through an employee survey responded by 12 educators and was analyzed using content analysis. The used data was originally collected for a wider research about the state and development of participation culture in Vironniemi. The strengths of the action culture according to the educators were that children’s, their parents’ and the staff’s interaction and the pedagogy of Vironniemi is based on participation and communality. The pedagogy and its methods were seen demanding. The educators stated that organizing, planning, documentation, time resources and the quantity of action were the major issues requiring improvements.