Purposeful and Ethical Early Childhood Teacher:The Underlying Values Guiding Finnish Early Childhood Education

作     者：Anitta Melasalmi Tarja-Ritta Hurme Inkeri Ruokonen 

作者机构：Department of Teacher EducationUniversity of TurkuSeminaarinkatu I26100 RaumaFinland University of Turku 

出 版 物：《ECNU Review of Education》 (华东师大教育评论（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第5卷第4期

页      面：601-623页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

基　　金：The authors received no financial support for the research  authorship  and/or publication of this article 

主　　题：Document analysis early childhood education and care early childhood teacher education ethical values 

摘      要：Purpose:The new Finnish National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care(2018)strongly highlights pedagogical knowledge and practice,demanding teachers to develop their pedagogical thinking,evaluation,judgment,and operating *** ethics is viewed as vital characteristics of the teaching profession,our objective is to make these complex ethical issues more visible to be subject to democratic discussion and ***/Approach/Methods:The framework comprises a broad theory base of codes of ethics and professional codes of ethics of *** research materials were national curricula of early childhood education and care(ECEC)-and pre-primary *** eight-step qualitative analysis process was applied to identify and shed light on the codes of ethics laying the foundations forpurposeful and ethical earlychildhood education(ECE)***:The results indicate that through both theoretical lenses,the Finnish ECEC curricula comprise several ethical *** the future purposeful ECE teachers as ethical professionals,the results raise questions for further ***,issues related to the ethics of care,intellectual freedom,inquiry stance,and professional competence,and diversity may further enhance our ECEC curricula.