I am a postdoctoral researcher at the JYU.Well profiling area, workiking at the Department of Education at the University of Jyväskylä.
In my present research, I take a cultural-historical approach to exploring interactional processes of emotion guiding and learning in everyday activities in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The study focuses on 0–2-year-old children who have just started ECEC. The specific form of ECEC in Finland, flexibly scheduled ECEC, serves as the study context.
Publications related to my research:
Salonen, E., Lipponen, L., Pursi, A., Lucas Revilla, Y., & Rutanen, N. (2026). Guided emotion participation at the start of early childhood education and care. Journal of Research in Childhood Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2026.2627436
Salonen, E., Pursi, A., & Lipponen, L. (2025). Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 33(3), 390–402. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2024.2401435
Salonen, E., Pursi, A., & Lipponen, L. (2024). Varhaiskasvatuksen aloitus vuorohoidossa: Pienen lapsen suru ja sen kohtaaminen vaihtelevassa sosiaalisessa ympäristössä (The start of flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care: A young child’s grief and how it is encountered in a changing social environment). Journal of Early Childhood Education Research, 13(2), 30–54. https://doi.org/10.58955/jecer.137388
