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Virtanen, Jorma – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
In the 1920s the question of kindergartens was actively discussed in Finnish teachers' journals. The concern was with social and educational demands that kindergartens and lower elementary schools should be combined in the public educational system. Elisabeth Alander (1859-1940), the grand pioneer of the Finnish kindergarten pedagogy, opposed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Educational Policy, Sociology