Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?

This research explored the curricula guiding the Finnish early Childhood education and Care (ECEC) and the Sámi Early Childhood Education and Care. The focus was in looking into what were the core concepts associated with the more-than-human in the curricula and furthermore, what types of relations...

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Main Author: Helenius, Roosa
Other Authors: Faculty of Education and Psychology, Kasvatustieteiden ja psykologian tiedekunta, Department of Education, Kasvatustieteiden laitos, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2024
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/95851
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description This research explored the curricula guiding the Finnish early Childhood education and Care (ECEC) and the Sámi Early Childhood Education and Care. The focus was in looking into what were the core concepts associated with the more-than-human in the curricula and furthermore, what types of relationships could be identified between the human and the more-than-human in them. The theoretical framework of this qualitative case study was situated in critical posthumanist framework and the reflexive thematic analysis (TA) of documents was guided by decolonial and Indigenous methodologies. The onto-epistemological positionality of this research acknowledged the connectedness of human and the more-than-human and the relationality of knowledge systems. The research was conducted from a settler colonial position, and the Indigenous research ethics guided the study. The results showed that the Finnish ECEC discourses of sustainability and environmental education were dominant in the associations with the more-than-human and the relationship between the human and the more-than-human was predominantly anthropocentric. Albeit the National Core Curriculum for ECEC (2022) seemed to shift towards a more holistic relation with the more-than-human. The results also showed that the Curriculum for Sámi Early Childhood Education and Care (2009) embodied the intertwined relationship between the human and the more-than-human, in all aspects of Sámi pedagogy especially through Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Tässä tutkielmassa käsiteltiin suomalaista ja saamelaista varhaiskasvatusta ohjaavia opetussuunnitelmia. Tutkimuksen keskiössä oli selvittää, millaisia ydinkäsityksiä ihmisen ylittävään (more-than-human) maailmaan liitetään sekä minkälaisia suhteita ihmisen ja ihmisen ylittävän maailman välillä voidaan opetussuunnitelmista havaita. Tämän laadullisen tapaustutkimuksen teoreettinen viitekehys paikantui kriittisen posthumanismin viitekehykseen ja dokumenttianalyysi toteutettiin refleksiivisen temaattisen analyysin (TA) keinoin. Analyysia ohjasi dekolonialismi ja alkuperäiskansatutkimuksen käytänteet. Tutkimuksen onto-epistemologisten käsitysten mukaan, ihminen ja ihmisen ylittävä (more-than-human) maailma ovat kytköksissä toisiinsa ja tietojärjestelmät ovat relationaalista. Tutkielma toteutettiin asuttajakolonialistisesta tutkimusnäkökulmasta käsin. Tulokset osoittivat, että suomalainen varhaiskasvatus käsittelee ihmisen ylittävää maailmaa kestävyyspuheen sekä ympäristökasvatuksen kautta, sekä lähtökohtaisesti asemoituu ihmiskeskeisesti suhteessa ihmisen ylittävään maailmaan. Silti, Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteissa (2022) oli havaittavissa siirtymä kohti holistisempaa suhdetta ihmisen ylittävän maailman kanssa. Tulokset osoittivat myös, kuinka Saamelainen varhaiskasvatussuunnitelma (2009) ruumiillisti yhteenkietoutunutta suhdetta ihmisen ja ihmisen ylittävän maailman välillä, miltei kaikilla osa-alueillaan, erityisesti Perinteiden Ekologisen Tiedon (TEK) muodossa.
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title Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?
title_full Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?
title_fullStr Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy? Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?
title_full_unstemmed Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy? Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?
title_short Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective
title_sort environmental education and the more than human perspective what can finnish early childhood education and care learn from sámi pedagogy
title_sub What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?
title_txtP Environmental education and the more-than-human perspective : What can Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care learn from Sámi pedagogy?
topic more-than-human decoloniality Indigenous methodologies Sámi early childhood education and care Finnish early childhood education and care Traditional Ecological Knowledge Education Kasvatustiede 102 ympäristökasvatus posthumanismi varhaiskasvatus environmental education posthumanism early childhood education and care
topic_facet 102 Education Finnish early childhood education and care Indigenous methodologies Kasvatustiede Sámi early childhood education and care Traditional Ecological Knowledge decoloniality early childhood education and care environmental education more-than-human posthumanism posthumanismi varhaiskasvatus ympäristökasvatus
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