Curriculum for early childhood education
View Kuopio’s curriculum for early childhood education here!
Curriculum for early childhood education (pdf)
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If you are not yet familiar with the curriculum, it is high time to get to grips with it. The updated National core curriculum for early childhood education and care was completed in autumn 2024. This curriculum is a statutory document that bolsters the status of early childhood education and care as part of the Finnish education system.
All municipalities in Finland have recently updated local curricula. The local curriculum for Kuopio was adopted by the Board for Education and Learning on 24 September 2024. This means that the curriculum is a highly topical issue! Children and their parents have been strongly engaged in considering and preparing the local curriculum together with professionals. Children’s welfare is a positive goal that we all share, and this definitely shines through in the curriculum prepared for Kuopio.
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Early childhood education and care is a systematic and goal-oriented whole consisting of education, instruction and care with emphasis on pedagogy. In early childhood education and care pedagogy, genuine interaction between the child and the adult is stressed.
Young children learn as they play and are active. The parents are the best experts regarding their child and the child’s play. The curriculum for early childhood education reflects the parents’ views of how they see early childhood education and care in Kuopio and its future.
Many studies have confirmed the great impact early childhood education and care has on the child’s entire future, learning path and life. Early childhood is a phase of immense development and learning. The capabilities for learning reading, writing and mathematics develop before the child reaches school age. This means that the structures and contents created for the child’s daily life are highly significant.
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The monthly wellbeing letters for the customer families of early childhood education and care discuss themes relevant to the daily life and wellbeing of families with young children. The letters were developed together with the child welfare clinic and family counselling centre in a Covid-19 project funded by a discretionary government grant. The purpose of the letters is to support efforts to promote families’ wellbeing through early childhood education and care.
The letters are published in Finnish, English, Russian and Arabic.
Orientation letter – parenting and daily life (pdf)