Browsing by Author "Kuisma, Salla"

The subject of this study are the social media conversations concerning the right for the subjective day care for children. Objective of the study is to look at what kind of discourses parents have about the day care itself and about the right for it in the 2000s. Areas of interest are those conversations through which the right for subjective day care are discussed. The theoretical part describes the history of day care and takes a look at the VIA-related determinants, day-care system and the multi-professional working community and their educational background. The theory section also addresses the 1972 Parliamentary positions of the home-care and day-care center from 1973 until the completion of day-care law. The Nordic comparison of the day care provides international perspective for this study. The research questions are as follows: 1. What kind of interpretative repertoires are formed from parent's comments about the subjective right to day care? 2. What kind of duty is set on day care in parent's discussions about subjective right to day care? This study represents a research method of qualitative research, and an actual discourse analysis method was chosen. Thus, the theoretical frame of reference is formed by discourse analysis and social constructionism. In this study, the reality is constructed through linguistic interaction. Attention is drawn to the formation of reality and meaning by constructing the text. Purpose of this study was to examine the discourse of parent's assumptions of day care in the 2000s. The research was approached through a variety of interpretive repertoire. Data for this study consisted of three "Baby"- magazine online discussion forum. Based on the analysis result of this research three different dimensions, which are called interpretative repertoires, were formed. These were supportive interpretative repertoire, opposing interpretative repertoire and, thirdly, a neutral interpretation of the repertoire. The results of a subjective right to day care was seen as a social service, nursing service, and to some extent also in early childhood education. Adult aspect was predominant in the discussions of this study.