Browsing by Author "Jauhiainen, Susanna"

The purpose of this study was to describe what level of sensitivity personnel of kindergarten works when under 3-years old child arrive to kindergarten. In addition on this study researched was there difference on level of sensitivity between different educations by kindergarten personnel. Purpose was also to describe in what ways sensitivity interaction is mentioned in documents witch instruct action in kindergarten. Earlier studies have indicated that education of kindergarten personnel affects to level of sensitivity and that sensititivity interaction increase quality of early childhood education. That’s why it was necessary got more information on what level of sensitivity kindergarten personnel works and what is the signification of education and documents witch instruct action. This was qualitative research. Methods of data collection was non-pariticipant structured observation and completed documents. Observated data was analysed as a indicator of Adult Engagement Scale (AES), take noticed only level of sensitivity. Completed documents analysed as a data analysis method. This study achieved at three different kindergartens. On each kindergartens there was one kindergartenteacher and one children’s nurse who participated on study. In addition completed documents was data of this study. Outcome of study was that kindergartenteachers and works at high level of sensitivity when they receive under 3-years old child to kindergarten. According this study kindergartenteachers worked higher level of sensitivity than nannys, because usually measured level of sensitivity was level 5 at kindergartenteachers and level 4 at children’s nurses. On documents witch intruct action in kindergarten, came out that mentions of sensitivity was more concrete on one document (1) than other documents (2,3). This showed also that person who had highest level of sensitivity worked on kindergarten whose document mentioned sensitivity strongly.