Early Childhood Education (ECE)

Research in Early Childhood Education (ECE) focuses on younger children’s learning and learning environments as well as on teacher education in the pre-school years and school’s earlier years. By conducting research and development projects with results of high relevance to educational programmes for pre-school teachers and schoolteachers as well as to professionals, we link research and education.

The research group consists of senior lecturers, lecturers, and doctoral students with an interest in topics such as:

Young children’s meaning-making, learning processes, and learning environments
Education, socialisation, and care of young children
Professions in pre-schools/schools and their collaboration
Teacher education in the pre-school years and the school's earlier years
Educational system, terms, and policy regarding in the pre-school years and the school's earlier years

Together, the members of the research team have rich experience in different methodological and theoretical perspectives as well as different types of data production and analysis models. Within the research group, there is a broad experience of development work and practice-based research in pre-school and the school’s earlier years, for example in areas such as democracy and diversity in pre-school, digitalisation in pre-school/school, science in pre-school, language stimulating environments in pre-school, literacy didactics, professional studies, perspectives on teachers’, children’s and pupils’ roles in policy documents.