YLE und andere Nachrichtenagenturen versuchen festzustellen, ob riesige Kindertagesstätten mit 200 Kindern gut oder schlecht sind. In diesem Zusammenhang schließt Helsinki (und wahrscheinlich Espoo und Vantaa?) Alle kleinen Kindertagesstätten und verschmolzen sie zu riesigen.
Aufgrund meiner Erfahrung sind kleine Kindertätten (40 Kinder) für Kinder besser, da sie mehr Flexibilität bieten und die Kinder engere Bindungen bilden. Eltern, deren Kinder nur große Kindertagesstättenzentren besuchen, sind sich des Unterschieds möglicherweise nicht bewusst. Trotzdem stimme ich zu, dass das Personal immer ausgezeichnet ist, unabhängig von der Kindertagesstättengröße.
In Bezug auf Kosten und Humanressourcen sind große Kindertagesstätten effizienter.
News outlets on giant daycares
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I don’t think the size is actually the underlying problem. Aiming for efficiency as the first priority is the problem and size is just a symptom. The big daycares are environments devoid of nature and „soft“ things. All the new daycares I have seen are concrete, asphalt, articifial grass, no nature around or in them. The kids don’t have the same teachers. The teachers don’t like their employers. Everything is bureaucratic.
My kids are older so not relevant to me personally at the moment- but I’d say that the groups are likely not very different regardless of the daycare’s size. And in my experience the kids would make friends within their group rather than the whole daycare. My kids were in the same place at the same time but in different groups and they saw each other rarely while there, even when they were outside their groups had a fence between them so not much interaction. They made great friends from their groups though. And this was an average daycare of five groups if I recall correctly.
Flexibility? In what sense? Would also make sense that a bigger center has lots of flexibility when it comes to organizing personnel in case one group has a carer on sick leave etc. A very small center might struggle with the situation if even a one person is sick from the head count.
So both have pros and cons for sure. But just saying that a center is big doesn’t mean the kids are in there in a giant group. For the kids it’s probably more or less the same as a smaller place within their own group.