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Concepts of Pedagogy and Early Childhood Education and Care
Ulla Marita Härkönen ·
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The aim of this article is to create and present the one scientific upper title over the concepts of early childhood education and care, early childhood education, early education, and variable meanings and views of the already noticed today´s concepts of pedagogy, and other varying concepts that matters for focused discussion.The difference must be found especially between the fundamental concepts of education and pedagogy.Another basic task is to solve the connection between thinking and acting, and language and practice.The data consists of central literature focused on the mentioned main concepts.Methodologically, the study presents objective-hermeneutics.Both the reality with human´s activities, and language, texts, expressions and thinking, have been embraced to be constructive to form active multisystems.Methods belong to qualitative content and concept analyses of language and practice, thinking and acting, and systems thinking.Härkönen pedagogical systems theory has its part to do with this study but also it will be presented under scrutiny, earning new complements through this study.The context is mostly Finnish but at the same time international.