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This research aims to explore how parenting ideals are produced and reshaped through interactions between parents and ECEC institutions.

Navigating the parenting territory: parenting ideals in the everyday practices of the Finnish ECEC institution

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This research aims to explore how parenting ideals are produced and reshaped through interactions between parents and ECEC institutions.
Ethnographic methods used to collect data from two ECEC groups with children aged 1–4 years.
Analysis focused on daily interactions to identify parenting ideals and their re-negotiation within institutional contexts.
Identified three key parenting ideals: diligent gear management, pedagogically oriented parental engagement, and punctuality.
Showed that established expectations for parenting can be re-negotiated during daily interactions within ECEC settings.

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Ethnographic study examines parenting ideals negotiated in Finnish ECEC institutions, suggesting implications for policy.

Eeva Järventausta (2026) studied this question.

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