Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: the case of Finland
TL;DR: In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided as discussed by the authors, but private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial supp...
Abstract: In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial supp...
Citations
More filters
TL;DR: In this article, the role of childcare markets in the provision of early childhood education and care services is discussed and a collection on the role and role of markets in early childhood care and education is presented.
Abstract: This book is a much needed collection on the role of childcare markets in the provision of early childhood education and care services. Whilst some papers have emerged on the issue of childcare mar...
64 citations
DOI•
07 May 2007
TL;DR: In this article, the authors subscribe to the view that there is such a thing as a Scandinavian or Nordic (welfare) model or type (or welfare regime), characterized among other things by the general adoption of the principle ofuniversalism.
Abstract: Basically we subscribe to the view that there is such a thing as a Scandinavian or Nordic (welfare) model or type (or welfare regime), characterized among other things by the general adoption of the principle of
universalism. The questions we shall discuss are: what is meant by universalism? When did the (defined) principle of universalism become embedded in the Nordic welfare states? Why did it, with some exception for
Iceland (see Chapter 12), become so important in Scandinavia and
‘Norden’? Who promoted the principle, with which arguments? Is universalism still a major component of recent social and welfare policy reforms
in the Nordic countries?
36 citations
TL;DR: In accordance with the Nordic welfare model, the Finnish early childhood education and care (ECECEC) system has traditionally been based on public provision and the idea of universalism as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In accordance with the Nordic welfare model, the Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) system has traditionally been based on public provision and the idea of universalism. However, ove...
8 citations
TL;DR: In comparing and categorising national ECEC systems, Finnish ECEC has been presented as an... as mentioned in this paper, where universal access to early childhood education and care has become a policy goal in many countries.
Abstract: Universal access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become a policy goal in many countries. In comparing and categorising national ECEC systems, Finnish ECEC has been presented as an ...
4 citations
TL;DR: Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is changing across Europe, reflecting multiple-policy intentions and assumptions about education in early years, and the role of the state in supporting, funding and regulating its institutions as mentioned in this paper .
Abstract: Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is changing across Europe, reflecting multiple-policy intentions and assumptions about education in early years, and the role of the state in supporting, funding and regulating its institutions. In this article, we examine the evolution of ECEC comparatively in Finland and Sweden, and we explore the shifts in goals, governance mechanisms and policy ideas that have characterised reforms in the sector. We draw on an analysis of policy documents, and argue that the incremental changes achieved over the last 50 years have been in response to changing goals assigned to ECEC and ideas about its roles and functions as part of the welfare and education sectors. The power of ideas in effecting policy change is tempered by established institutional framings, yet is visible in the early dominance of child-centred ideas, and the later controversies over the emergent labour-market and education-driven rationales of the post-2010s.
3 citations
References
More filters
TL;DR: The relationship between micro and meso-level discourse analysis (i.e. specific social texts being the primary empirical material) and ''grand and mega-level' discourse analysis as mentioned in this paper is investigated.
Abstract: Discourse is a popular term used in a variety of ways, easily leading to confusion. This article attempts to clarify the various meanings of discourse in social studies, the term's relevance for organizational analysis and some key theoretical positions in discourse analysis. It also focuses on the methodological problem of the relationship between: a) the level of discourse produced in interviews and in everyday life observed as `social texts' (in particular talk); b) other kinds of phenomena, such as meanings, experiences, orientations, events, material objects and social practices; and, c) discourses in the sense of a large-scale, ordered, integrated way of reasoning/ constituting the social world. In particular, the relationship between `micro and meso-level' discourse analysis (i.e. specific social texts being the primary empirical material) and `grand and mega-level' discourse (i.e. large-scale orders) is investigated.
1,617 citations
"Rationalising public support for pr..." refers methods in this paper
...We use discourse as an analytical concept understood as a general system used to formulate and articulate ideas during a particular period of time (see Alvesson and Karreman 2000)....
[...]
Book•
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the concept of Discourse Analysis, define it, and present the challenges of using it, as well as the challenges faced by using it in discourse analysis.
Abstract: Preface 1. What is Discourse Analysis? Defining Discourse Analysis Reasons for Using Discourse Analysis What Lies Ahead 2. The Variety of Discourse Analysis Theoretical Perspectives in Dscourse Analysis Empirical Studies in Discourse Analysis A Useful Methodology 3. Our Research Program Studying Identity Revitalizing Our Critical Approach A New Perspective on Exsisting Theoretical Debates Why We Use Discourse Analysis 4. The Challenges of Discourse Analysis Developing a Research Question Selecting a Site Collecting Data Analyzing the Data Writing Up the Study Make It Interesting 5. Conclusions Contributions Challenges On a Personal Note References About the Authors
1,467 citations
"Rationalising public support for pr..." refers methods in this paper
...In the data analysis, we apply interpretative discourse analysis to scrutinise the social contexts at work and the discourse supporting them (see Phillips and Hardy 2002)....
[...]
23 Apr 2014
TL;DR: For example, this paper argued that affirmative recognition remedies tend to promote existing group differentiations, whereas transformative recognition remedies tends, in the long run, to destabilize them so as to make room for future regroupments.
Abstract: Cultural domination supplants exploitation as the fundamental injustice. And cultural recognition displaces Socioeconomic redistribution as the remedy for injustice and the goal of political struggle. The point holds for recognition remedies more generally. Whereas affirmative recognition remedies tend to promote existing group differentiations, transformative recognition remedies tend, in the long run, to destabilize them so as to make room for future regroupments. Like affirmative redistribution, transformative redistribution generally presupposes a universalist conception of recognition, the equal moral worth of persons. Affirmative redistribution can stigmatize the disadvantaged, adding the insult of misrecognition to the injury of deprivation. Transformative redistribution, in contrast, can promote solidarity, helping to redress some forms of misrecognition. The 'struggle for recognition' is fast becoming the paradigmatic form of political conflict in the late twentieth century. Demands for 'recognition of difference' fuel struggles of groups mobilized under the banners of nationality, ethnicity, 'race,' gender, and sexuality.
1,010 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a research program devoted to examining the process of economization is proposed, which refers to the assembly and qualification of actions, devices and analytical/practical descriptions as economic by social scientists and market actors.
Abstract: Presented in two parts, this article proposes a research programme devoted to examining ‘processes of economization’. In the first instalment, published in Economy and Society 38(3) (2009), we introduced the notion of ‘economization’. The term refers to the assembly and qualification of actions, devices and analytical/practical descriptions as ‘economic’ by social scientists and market actors. Through an analysis of selected works in anthropology, economics and sociology, we discussed the importance, meaning and framing of economization, unravelling its trace within a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. This second instalment of the article explores what it would mean to move this research programme forward by taking processes of economization as a topic of empirical investigation. Given the vast terrain of relationships that produce its numerous trajectories, to illustrate what such a project would entail we have limited ourselves to the examination of processes we call ‘marketization’. These p...
769 citations