Browsing by Subject "päiväkodin aloittaminen"

Settling in at daycare center is an exciting step in child’s and his/her parents’ life. Children’s literature is a one way to get ready for starting daycare. Through books child can safely handle excitement and nervous with parent when child is stepping into a new stage in his/her life. Child can find objects of identification in the books’ character, who has just started daycare. With the help of children’s literature, it is possible to study how the spirit of the time manifests itself in story, text, and illustrations of books. In this study, I aim to find out what kind of descriptions of daycare centers are made and how the start of daycare is described in Finnish children’s picture books. Qualitative research ways were used in this research. I approached the topic with hermeneutics. The source material was six Finnish picture books that were telling about daycare center or visiting or starting there for the first time. Onni ja Aada päiväkodissa (2021) by Maria Kuutti and Saara Söderlund, Miina ja Manu päiväkodissa (2008) by Teutori, Onni-poika menee päiväkotiin (2019) by Sanna Pelliccioni, Oona ja Eetu Päivä hoidossa (2010) by Katri Kirkkopelto and Mervi Wäre, Tomppa ja Kissantassut (2003) by Kristiina Louhi and Tatu ja Patu päiväkodissa (2004) by Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen. Based on the results, the children book characters felt nervous when they were starting at daycare center. Moreover, Finnish daycare centers are described to be nature focused, diverse and child-initiated places where works sensitive educators who put into practice high quality early childhood education and care. Based on the results, it is still possible to discern the influence of Froebelian pedagogic that has influenced the Finnish early childhood education and care system. The results also give an ideal picture of daycare center even if the real life is not exactly like that how the picture books are describing daycare centers.