City of Helsinki is updating the Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care. There is the binding link with the National Core Curriculum which is normative for the first time. Local Helsinki Curriculum is to be implemented from August 2017.
The update process applies to all forms of ECEC; Day Care Centres, playgrounds, family day care and children's clubs. Studying and developing pedagogical work and it’s priorities in different ongoing projects will create a common dialogical curriculum. This process makes participation possible for educational staff, children and parents as well as partners in different sectors, researchers and politicians.
This all can only happen by contribution of the project group. This group inspires and coordinates the production the pedagogical content of curriculum. A wide network is needed to put forward regional perspectives which summarize the ideas to a condensed, principled curriculum-document in the spirit of Helsinki and produces pedagogical materials to illustrate it using also the results of former projects.
All actual development and collaborative projects including planning actions considering pedagogy are parts of the Helsinki curriculum process. The task aim is to show the main thread, which connects to the National Core Curriculum.
We also have many bigger and smaller ongoing development projects, which produce content for Helsinki curriculum.
1) Medialiteracy in ECEC -project: gives pedagogical support, training and materials for ECEC-professionals in media education, Medialiteracy and ICT.
2) Cultural work in ECEC: Finland100 Big Reading Adventure with libraries, visual artists in day care centers, cooperation with cultural institutions and artists’ associations.
3) The Helsinki Plan of Environmental Awareness: to create and train eco-supporter network in ECEC, Four Finland 100 Nature Days.
4) The Pleasure Grows Moving – national project (Valo): Challenge different actors to support children’s playful moving
