Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16226480242482

Kaisu Peltoperä, Tanja M. Vehkakoski, Leena Turja, M. Laakso

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Abstract

This study examined how Finnish parents working non-standard hours (N=18) positioned institutional flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a link in their chain of childcare. Interview data, analysed following the principles of discursive psychology, yielded three discourses on flexibly scheduled ECEC: the discourse of the child’s best interest, the discourse of the labour market, and the discourse of equality of opportunity for the child. Flexibly scheduled ECEC was positioned in these discourses either as the last resort option for childcare, a safe haven for the child, a societal service enabling parents to work during non-standard hours or as a place for children’s learning. It is important to recognise the origins of these discourses and reflect on them to improve ECEC services, so that they meet the demands of safety as a link in the chain of childcare and increase the level of parental satisfaction with them.

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在父母非标准工作时间的托儿链中定位灵活安排的ECEC

本研究调查了工作时间不规范的芬兰父母(N=18)如何将机构灵活安排的幼儿教育和保育(ECEC)定位为其儿童保育链中的一个环节。访谈数据，根据话语心理学的原则进行分析，产生了关于灵活安排的ECEC的三种话语:儿童最佳利益的话语，劳动力市场的话语，以及儿童机会平等的话语。灵活安排的ECEC在这些话语中被定位为儿童保育的最后选择，儿童的避风港，使父母能够在非标准时间工作的社会服务，或者作为儿童学习的地方。重要的是要认识到这些话语的起源，并对其进行反思，以改善ECEC服务，使其满足作为儿童保育链中的一环的安全需求，并提高父母对其的满意度。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.