Authors

• Pahikkala, Matilda (University of Turku)

Keywords

child care, day care, early childhood, education, emotional states, learning, participation, schools

Abstract

The data consists of writings by early childhood teachers about their experiences of positive pedagogy. The data was originally collected for a master's thesis.

The writing invitation was used to find out how positive pedagogy is implemented in early childhood education and how it is used in practice. They were allowed to be free-form, but were also expected to answer the three questions posed in the writing invitation. The questions asked how positive pedagogy is implemented in the respondent's group of children and how the respondent believes positive pedagogy contributes to the well-being of the child. They were also asked to describe three or four ways in which the respondent uses positive pedagogy.

Background information includes gender, age group and how long the respondent had been an early childhood teacher.