Hanna Hjelt: ’Power and responsibility in ECEC employees’ speech’
Supervisors: Professor Kirsti Karila, Dr Päivi Kupila
This thesis aims to examine the ways ECEC employees’ talk about their work, its goals and demands. In the focus of this discursive research is speech and particular ways of talking about power relations and responsibilities of employees.
Johanna Vainio: Encouragement – Children, Interaction and Power
Supervisors: Professor Kirsti Karila, Dr Päivi Kupila
This thesis raises important questions about how encouragement is built in interactions in ECEC institutional settings and how children are involved in those situations.
Katja Sirvio: ECEC teachers’ retention
Supervisors: Professor Kirsti Karila, Dr Päivi Kupila
Katja’s dissertation focuses on ECEC teachers’ retention in Finland. The dissertation explores the way in which the personal, contextual and cultural factors affect ECEC teachers’ decision to stay in or leave the profession. In addition the dissertation looks into the support structure available to ECEC teachers. Participants are ECEC teachers in the early stages of their career as well as experienced ECEC teachers. Research data is acquired mainly through qualitative interviews.