Can I kiss a child? : balancing between different views of touch in early childhood educators’ work |
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Author: | Keränen, Virve1; Uitto, Minna1 |
Organizations: |
1Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.5 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022032324673 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Informa,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2022-03-23 |
Description: |
AbstractPrior research has shown that touch has an important role in preschools. However, less is known about early childhood educators’ views on touch in their work. Hence, we ask what different views of touch early childhood educators narrate as a part of their work. The research material consists of three multiprofessional group discussions with educators working in Finnish preschools. The findings show how educators balanced between different views of touch. Occasionally they spoke from personal points of view: touch is intimate while an important part of their work. However, educators also spoke from professional and practical points of view: circumstances and practices influence touch, and they must tolerate touch because of the nature of their work. Additionally, educators spoke about how culture, rules, habits, and other people affect touch. The study suggests that practices of touch must be intertwined with tactful practice and treated as a multisided phenomenon in education. see all
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Series: |
Scandinavian journal of educational research |
ISSN: | 0031-3831 |
ISSN-E: | 1470-1170 |
ISSN-L: | 0031-3831 |
Volume: | In press |
DOI: | 10.1080/00313831.2021.1990124 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1080/00313831.2021.1990124 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
516 Educational sciences |
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Funding: |
This work was supported by the Academy of Finland [grant number 332232] and Finnish Cultural Foundation. |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
332232 |
Detailed Information: |
332232 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |