"Tällainen infopaketti on todella hyvä ajatus!" : A Guidance Booklet for Parents of Children in Illenpiha Day Care
Paulasaari, Liina (2018)
Lataukset:
Paulasaari, Liina
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018061814061
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018061814061
Tiivistelmä
The purpose of this study was to create a guidance booklet for new clients of the Illenpiha day care center. Since the guide has been written in the English language, its target group is clients who speak English or who understand English. The working life partner for this thesis was the Illenpiha day care center and the supervisor was the day care center’s director Sari Eskola.
The theory for this thesis was based around the subject of cooperation between parents or guardian of a child in day care and the day care center personnel as this is what the booklet aimed to support and develop. The nature of this study was in the form of a project; this thesis is a two-part thesis: one part is the written report and the other is the project, which is the guidance booklet for parents. Data was collected through an interview with the director of the day care to deduce the need for such a booklet and information for the booklet itself was collected from clients of the Illenpiha day care center in the form of a questionnaire as well as some face-to-face conversations in 2017 and 2018.
The final booklet is a package containing seven informational pages and is thirteen pages in total length from cover to cover. It contains a brief introduction to the Illenpiha day care center, its floor plan, schedules of the groups in the Illenpiha building, a list of essentials such as clothes and other items to bring to day care, a visual representation of what to dress the child in according to different temperatures, and finally useful links readable both, in English and in Finnish.
The guidance booklet was asked to be created by the personnel of the Illenpiha day care center, as the personnel had come to the conclusion that this type of information package is needed at the day care center. According to the feedback, both, from fellow students at Laurea University of Applied Sciences as well as the clients of the Illenpiha day care center, the booklet was a good idea, and an important tool which contains only necessary information. The booklet will be distributed to new families after the summer of 2018 and will be available online as well. Due to the positive reaction and feedback on the idea itself as well as the contents of the booklet, I am sure that it will be useful and hope that it will be used and developed further for years to come.
The theory for this thesis was based around the subject of cooperation between parents or guardian of a child in day care and the day care center personnel as this is what the booklet aimed to support and develop. The nature of this study was in the form of a project; this thesis is a two-part thesis: one part is the written report and the other is the project, which is the guidance booklet for parents. Data was collected through an interview with the director of the day care to deduce the need for such a booklet and information for the booklet itself was collected from clients of the Illenpiha day care center in the form of a questionnaire as well as some face-to-face conversations in 2017 and 2018.
The final booklet is a package containing seven informational pages and is thirteen pages in total length from cover to cover. It contains a brief introduction to the Illenpiha day care center, its floor plan, schedules of the groups in the Illenpiha building, a list of essentials such as clothes and other items to bring to day care, a visual representation of what to dress the child in according to different temperatures, and finally useful links readable both, in English and in Finnish.
The guidance booklet was asked to be created by the personnel of the Illenpiha day care center, as the personnel had come to the conclusion that this type of information package is needed at the day care center. According to the feedback, both, from fellow students at Laurea University of Applied Sciences as well as the clients of the Illenpiha day care center, the booklet was a good idea, and an important tool which contains only necessary information. The booklet will be distributed to new families after the summer of 2018 and will be available online as well. Due to the positive reaction and feedback on the idea itself as well as the contents of the booklet, I am sure that it will be useful and hope that it will be used and developed further for years to come.