Browsing by Author "Seppälä, Tiiu"

Objectives. The objective of this empirical research was to describe, analyze and interpret the experience of the parents of the children who attend day-care, how and why an active employee instils trust in the parents’. The co-operation between a parent and a day-care worker is essential to early-childhood education. As a mandatory document National Core Curruculum for Early Childhood Education and Care 2016, describes early childhood edu-cation as the all encompassing advancement of upbringing, development and education of a child whilst co-operating with the parents of the children at day-care. Trust between the parents and the day-care workers is a foundational starting point for a working co-operation. Trust can be seen as a habit which is based on feelings. That habit is our natu-ral way to relate to other people. There has not been made a lot of researches about par-ents’ trust towards day-care workers but for example employees’ sensitivity have been seen as a fact that increases the feelings of trust Methodology. The study conducted was qualitative research, and the research assign-ment was defined as one question and was complemented by two clarifying questions. For this research 4 parents were interviewed february of 2018 in a focused interview whose children were in the care of the day-care center. All The interviews had been tran-scribed and the material was analyzed through the theory guiding qualitative content anal-ysis. Results and Conclusion. The parents had taken into account the information the worker provided for their child as strengthening factor of their trust. In addition the parents seeing the day-care workers in action not just with their children also left a remarkable impact on their trust towards the workers. Also the parents mirrored their trust towards the cay-care workers on the basis of how their child enjoyed the day-care and reacted to each day-care employee. Based on the results of this research the methods or practices of the day-care worker was a significant factor that impacted the parents’ trust experience towards the day-care worker.