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EYES2020Remote is a unique opportunity to learn from the famous Finnish Early Childhood Education and share the best practices in different countries. In EYES2020Remote you will participate in online webinars and workshops. In addition, you will have access to video lectures in advance. The main idea is to stimulate critical thinking and new perspectives by making the familiar strange and provoking questions.
In EYES2020Remote the focus is on…
• Child’s holistic growth, development and learning – the mission of Finnish early childhood education
• Joy of learning -let children play, explore and experience
• “The new normal” in ECE – the impacts of Covid-19
• Pedagogical leadership -foundation high-quality ECE
• Pedagogical documentation – essential working approach to implement ECE in a child-focused manner
Join us to learn more about these topics with other participants from around the world!
Here is one of the comments from EYES2019 participants:
“Thank you for a wonderful experience, I want to come back again.”
IN ADVANCE
VIDEO 1: Introduction to Finnish Early Childhood Educational (45 min)
Ph.D. Piia Roos
VIDEO 2: Lockdown Period in Finnish Early Childhood Education – from Chaos to Maintaining Belongingness (30 min)
Ph.D. Piia Roos
THURS 22nd
12:00-13:30 ONLINE WEBINAR: Pedagogical leadership in Finnish ECE Ph.D. Elina Fonsen
14:00-15:30 ONLINE WORKSHOP: Pedagogical leadership – Comparing policies, provisions and practices in different countries (hosted by Ph.D. Piia Roos)
FRI 23rd
12:00-13.30 ONLINE WEBINAR: Pedagogical documentation in the process of developmental evaluation Ph.D. Kati Rintakorpi
14:00-15:30 ONLINE WORKSHOP: Pedagogical documentation – Comparing policies, provisions and practices in different countries (hosted by Ph.D. Piia Roos)
NOTE! Times are Finnish summer time (UTC+3)
PIIA ROOS
Ph.D. Piia Roos (teacher of early years, PhD) has over 10 years of experience as a teacher and a leader in Finnish ECEC centres. For the past 10 years she worked as a teacher in vocational college for practical nurses majoring in early childhood education. Now Roos works as an educator and consult through her own company. In addition, she is a visiting lecture at Tampere University of Applied Science, and a partner and pedagogical expert in VisitEDUfinn Ltd. Her special interests are children’s perspective and participation.
KATI RINTAKORPI
Kati Rintakorpi (Ph.D.) is an experienced day care professional, ECE teacher and Doctor of Early Childhood Education with a wide practical and theoretical know-how. She has been working as a ECE teacher, entrepreneur, and manager for over 20 years. In addition, she has worked as a non-fiction writer, consultant end educator for early childhood education practitioners in Finland and abroad for more than 10 years. Currently she works as a lecture in the Laurea University of Applied Sciences.
ELINA FONSÉN
Ph.D. Elina Fonsén works as a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki. Previous work experience consists of teaching and researching, working as a university affiliated project coordinator and ECE teacher. Fonsén’s dissertation was about Pedagogical leadership in early childhood education and her post-doctoral research interest focuses on the professional development of ECE teachers, leadership in the educational field and the quality of ECE pedagogy. Currently, she leads the international research project Discourse of leadership in the diverse field of early childhood education and the EduLeaders – development and research project of leadership studies for the educational field. Fonsén is one of the charter members of the Leadership in Educational context research group at the University of Helsinki.
Registration
All participants should register for the event. Please read all information below before using the event online registration forms to register for EYES2020Remote.
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR EYES2020Remote>>
The Early Bird price for EYES2020Remote program is
– 1 day / 39 euros (incl. VAT)
– 2 days / 59 euros (incl. VAT)
After 20th of September, the prices will be 69 euros / 89 euros.
– 1 day / 69 euros (incl. VAT)
– 2 days / 89 euros (incl. VAT)
Last date for registration is 10th October 2020.
Price includes:
Payments
Please choose your payment type on the online registration form. The options are
– Online credit card payment (Visa, MasterCard, American Express)
– Bank transfer. The invoice with the necessary information will be sent to you with the confirmation email. The participant should assume all the bank transaction fees.
Please note that all payments must be made in advance and in euros (€).
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend EYES2020Remote, you can let anyone, for instance, your colleague to replace you. Just send the new participant´s name and email to info@visitedufinn.com. Refunding, unfortunately, is not possible. Please remember that the webinars are recorded, and they are available online for two months after the event.
For further information, please contact:
Ph.D. Piia Roos piia.roos@visitedufinn.com / +358 505242176
SUCCESS STORY.
You can purchase the Success Story books about Finnish Early Childhood Education and/or Finnish Basic Education. Special price for EYES2020 participants is 15 € (incl. VAT 10%). More information: https://visitedufinn.com/books/
WEBINARS are kept by top Finnish experts. In the presentations, they will focus on two topical themes within Finnish ECE: Pedagogical leadership and Pedagogical documentation. During the webinar the participants will hear, how these themes are emphasised in Finland.
Discussions will continue in WORKSHOPS in interactive and practical level. Workshops are hosted by experienced Finnish early years teachers (M.ed.). The maximum number of participants is 15 and if needed, parallel workshops will be carried out. The participants will be in active interaction with each other and the host. The workshop program also includes short videos from Finnish Early Childhood Education centres. In addition, participants are encouraged to reflect Finnish system to their own systems through joint discussions. What are the similarities? Or biggest differences? What could be adopted as such? How could we utilize the know-how internationally in a more affective way?
For additional information about practical arrangements, please contact:
Piia Roos
Tel. +358 505 242 176
Email: piia.roos@visitedufinn.com
For additional information about registration and payments, please contact:
VisitEDUfinn Ltd.
Ensi linja 1
00530 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 409 684 987
Email: info@visitedufinn.com
Unique educational conference setup – Visit Finnish schools and job shadow teachers by the Arctic Circle.
Ms. Rauhala (B.A.) is an educational sciences student at the University of Turku with studies also in the fields of psychology, business and HR, and sociology. As an education major, she is passionate about lifelong learning and the Finnish education system. She believes in change through education. In addition, Ms. Rauhala loves to learn new languages. She completed an Erasmus + university exchange in Spain as a part of her studies and wants to work toward everyone getting international learning opportunities. Ms. Rauhala is working for VisitEDUfinn part-time while finishing her studies.
Contact:
melina.rauhala@visitedufinn.com
