Browsing by Subject "dokumentointi"

The purpose of this study was to find out ways to kindergarten documentation and documentation targets. I was interested in exploring how the importance of documentation was seen in kindergarten. In the research I also took up documentation of change and how it is displayed in kindergarten and in criteria for early childhood education plans. My research questions were following: 1 What kind of documentation methods are used in kindergarten? 2 What do kindergarten teachers document in kindergarten? 3 Do kindergarten teachers find documentation significant and that it has changed over years? The research was carried out in Helsinki and the group of researchers consisted of three kindergarten teachers with at least four years of work experience. My interview was semistructured and was recorded and transcribed afterwards. The interviewees mentioned a variety of different tools for documentation and the satisfaction, harm and desires that were targeted at them. My results show that kindergarten teachers carried out a wide range of documentation but due to lack of time, thought it to be less what they would have liked to. Each kindergarten teacher strongly emphasized the importance of children documentation because it helped developing the functionality of the kindergarten, gave children meaningful experiences and took parents as part of their children’s day. Questions about the assessment of the kindergarten teacher’s own work also arose but for the most part, however, it took place at the conversational level and not so much by using documentation tools. All kindergarten teachers regarded documentation as significant. They felt that it is brought up a lot and its importance as part of their work was significant. Early Childhood Education Plans for the years 2005 and 2016 also highlighted the importance change of documentations.