This research project concerns how various dimensions aof resilience is expressed in children´s daily life in Early Childhood Education and Care. The research interest is specifically directed towards how resilience is materialised in children´s agency, belonging, and compassion in three dimensions of ECEC: sustainability education, worldview education, and play.

The research design is ethnographic with a research material consisting of observations, interviews, children´s drawings and narratives. The research material is co-created with children, staff, and students from four ECEC settings in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland.

The research project is led by Senior Researcher Ann-Christin Furu from the ECEC teacher education, Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies at Åbo Akademi University. Doctoral student Linda Eriksson and researcher Siv Lundström are part of the research group and professor Mia Heikkilä is scientifically responsible for the project. The project runs from 2023 to 2027 and is funded by Högskolestiftelsen i Österbotten, Svenska Kulturfonden, and Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds Minne.

You can find the project’s data protection notice here. (Only in Swedish).