Browsing by Subject "Päiväkodin johtaja"

The aim of this master’s thesis was to survey experiences from work orientation of a new Early childhood education centre directors. The focus group was new early childhood education centre directors, who had been working less than two years in their current positions. This topic hasn’t been studied earlier. This study illustrates current experiences of early childhood education centre directors from work orientation. It also illuminates those ideas that work orientation should conclude in the future. The study brings up things which those who are responsible of planning the work orientation of early childhood education centre directors, should pay more attention. This survey was conducted with electrical survey. Participants of this survey, where eight respondents, who were all new early childhood education directors. Research data was examined with thematic analysis. The data from the directors revealed that experiences of work orientation varied greatly from each other. Most of the directors had been forced to start their career without any orientation. Only couple of responding directors had got work orientation that had been planned little bit more. All the respondents brought up the need for more sufficient work orientation in the future. They hoped that it would include well planned and written strategy, which should include all the things that are influencing directors daily work tasks. They were also suggesting that this strategy should be mandatory to every new director at the start of their career. This study will be beneficial to new early childhood education centre directors as well as to those who are responsible of planning the work orientation.