Browsing by Subject "lapsen vahvuudet"

The goal of this qualitative research is to find out how a child and an adult is positioned in strength-based written texts created by kindergarten teachers. Heiskanen, Alasuutari and Vehkakoski’s research (2018) pointed out that a child is usually positioned as stabile and responsible and an adult free of responsibility. Two research questions were made to help find out the goal of this research: 1) How does a child appear in the written texts created by kindergarten teachers? 2) How does an adult appear in the written texts created by kindergarten teachers?. The sample of the research consisted of nine kindergarten teachers. The data was collected via questionnaires. Each of the nine kindergarten teachers filled four observation questionnaires based on the strengths of the child. The questionnaires were sent to willing kindergarten teachers via mail. The data of the research consisted of 36 strength based questionnaires, which were collected during autumn 2017 from one of Helsinki’s early childhood areas. The data was analysed via discursive analysis. In this research a child was positioned as stabile, responsible and difficultly interpreted. An adult was positioned as stabile, difficultly interpreted and free of responsibility. With the help of this research kindergarten teachers can think about their ways of thinking according to their ways of creating written texts. It is also very important to evaluate how the strengths of the children will be written and how the child is positioned in the written texts in the future.