Browsing by Author "Jokela, Sara"

Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to survey the views and experiences of preschool and primary education teachers about school transition, the collaboration between preschool and primary education and the mutual relationship of those. The study aims to provide a vision of what the collaboration between preschool and primary education is like and what kind of issues it contains. Methods: This study was a qualitative study. Two preschool teachers and one teacher in primary education from Helsinki participated in the study. The preschool teachers who participated in the study had to work in a preschool class, which didn´t locate in the same building as the school where the children transfer to. The teacher in primary education had to work in a school that didn´t provide preschool education. The research material was collected by theme interviews and the analysis was influenced by material-based content analysis as well as the theory-driven content analysis. Results and conclusions: Co-operation between preschool and primary education could be divided into two categories: collaboration between the teachers of preschool and primary education, and collaboration that involves the children in preschool and primary education. Barriers between co-operation between preschool and primary education were, among other things, the hectic nature of everyday life, data transmission restrictions and staff turnover. The amount of cooperation between preschool and primary education did not correspond to the new requirement set by the Education and Training sector in Helsinki. Co-operation between preschool and primary education should get its own resources in the curriculum in order to increase the amount to the desired level.