Browsing by Subject "lapsihavainnointi"
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(2017)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.
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(2016)The goal of this study was to examine how much dissociative behaviour preschool teachers observe in 56 year old children in day care, what kind of dissociative behaviour the children exhibit in day care and in what kind of situations dissociation occurs. An additional goal was to investigate teachers’ perceptions of the reasons for dissociative behaviour in preschool children and the methods they use to respond. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were utilized in this study. Data was collected using an online questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised of The Child Dissociative Checklist, a validated measure of dissociation by MD Frank Putnam, and a set of open-ended questions. Research data consisted of 19 questionnaires filled by preschool teachers. The quantitative data was analysed using statistical analysis and the qualitative data using content analysis. The participants observed dissociative behaviour in 2 % of the 213 children in their classes, on average. One child (0,5 %) displayed more dissociative behaviour than is considered normal. The most common dissociative behaviours found were denying misbehaviour de-spite obvious evidence (9 %) and difficulties learning from experience (4,7 %). Other types of dissociation were observed in 03,3 % of the children. Most commonly, dissociation was used in interactive situations where conflict of some kind was involved. The teachers con-sidered dissociative behaviour to stem from emotional difficulties, attempts at self-regulation and getting in control, difficulties facing one’s own shortcomings, home environment or de-velopmental problems. They responded by reducing the child’s experience of shame when facing denying misbehaviour despite obvious evidence, difficulties learning from experience, rapid changes in personality or intense outbursts of anger. In case of hearing voices, re-gression or talking to oneself they resorted to normalizing the experience. Trance-like states, somatization and traumatic reactions were met with sensitivity without exception. Poor sense of time and variation in learned skills and preferences were taken into account using clear communication.
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