Seminar on “What about ECEC and pedagogical leadership in Sweden?”

Name: Seminar on “What about ECEC and pedagogical leadership in Sweden?”
Start: 2024-09-13T06:00:00
End: 2024-09-13T08:30:00

Maria Styf and Catarina Arvidsson (lecturers in education, Mid Sweden University) will visit Jyväskylä to give a lecture on the 13th of September (Friday) from 9:00 to 11:30. They will discuss about Swedish preschool of today, research on pedagogical leadership, and gender equality in preschools.

You can attend the talk in person in Library Lähde or online via Zoom.

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Jyväskylän Kesän puheohjelmia voi seurata myös striimattuna verkosta.

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13.9.2024 09:00 - 13.9.2024 11:30

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Public lectures, seminars and round tables

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English

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Free of charge

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B 116 Tietoniekka

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Schedule for 13 September at 9.00 - 11.30 am

9.00 - 10.00 lecture: What about ECEC and pedagogical leadership in Sweden?

Shortly about Swedish preschool from Kindergarten to preschools of today
Research on pedagogical leadership
Gender equality in preschool

10.00 - 11.00 Reflection and discussion in small groups

11.00 - 11.30 Summary and questions

ECEC (Early Childhood Education Centre for 1- to 5-year-olds) in Sweden has in many ways been regarded as unique with its view of care and learning, which is internationally referred to as educare, where care is always put in relation to learning. This way of looking at learning and the perception of the child as a subject in one's own learning has been part of the special nature of the ECEC. However, the assignment of the head of the ECEC has changed in Recent years in Sweden. In the revised curriculum (National agency for education, 2018) for ECEC, the assignment is more clearly specified towards education and teaching (formerly an activity for care, education and learning). Teaching is defined according to the State School Law Committee (SOU 2002:212) as teacher-led targeted processes aimed at acquiring knowledge and values. With this, the use of language changes towards a clearer focus on the institutionalized concepts of the school and a uniformity towards the regulation and conceptual apparatus of the rest of the school system.

The new revised curriculum (National agency for education, 2018) describes the responsibility of the preschool teacher and clarifies as a management responsibility vis-à-vis the rest of the team with it makes visible the different professions and the management of the ECEC is distanced from driving the pedagogical development in the direct activities. Management responsibility becomes a more comprehensive role for education. Preschool teachers are responsible for teaching in ECEC and with it the goal-driven processes in the activities. The principal of the preschool is responsible for the quality of pre-school and that education is directed towards the national goals. Those changes challenge the discourse of kindness and the division of labor in the work teams.

All in all, one of the principals of the ECEC´s task will be to lead leaders in a different way than before, and a key question addressed in the seminar is who the pedagogical leader in ECEC activities in Sweden is today.

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You can also join via Zoom.

Meeting ID: 688 6866 8467
Passcode: 825890

Information about the presenters:

Maria Styf is a PhD and Senior Lecturer in Education at the Department of Educational Sciences, Mid Sweden University.

Her research areas are leadership and school development in preschool and school. Maria has published several book chapters on leadership in preschool in Swedish and international anthologies. Some of the bookchapters is co-authoured with Catarina. Maria is the director of the National School Leadership Training Program at Mid Sweden University. She is also the research leader of the research group ULS (Educational Leadership and School Development) at the department of education.

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Catarina Arvidson holds a PhD and is a senior lecturer in education. She has worked at the Department of Educational Sciences at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall and has her main pedagogical and scientific home in preschool and preschool teacher education.

Her research concerns leadership in preschool in both national and international perspectives, preschool teacher students' perceptions of higher education and gender and gender equality in preschool.

Catarina Arvidson's profile

Seminar on “What about ECEC and pedagogical leadership in Sweden?”

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