Finland, the earth of the sami, is today a modern country, with a high technological level that he/she appears continuously in the media like one of the most competitive countries in the world.
During our visit, we could meet a country that he/she thinks and it acts toward their citizens, a modest, kind, serene country.
With placidness in the landscape, in the treatment, in the way of conceiving the centers for the children and girls, so much in their structure and organization, like in their architecture and their pedagogy.
As in the other Scandinavian countries, the centers for the children and girls of 0 to 7 years Finnish are competition of the city councils, always accompanied by the corresponding budgets, budgets that he/she knows everybody.
So much in Tampere as Helsinki, the centers that we visit had some common parameters that allowed us to identify the harmony and the coherence of that reality:
The ages that welcomed:
The children and smaller girls had between 8 and 10 months and the biggest 7 years, age in which the obligatory school begins.
The organization of the groups:
They were heterogeneous. Those of the small ones belonged to 12 children and girls between 8 months and 3 years; those of the adults, of 21 children and girls between 3 and 7 years, and each group had 3 educators.
The number of children and girls for educator:
Each educator has 4 of the group of the small ones and 7 of that of the adults.
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