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Since ethics is viewed as vital characteristics of the teaching profession, our objective is to make these complex ethical issues more visible to be subject to democratic discussion and change.  \nDesign/Approach/Methods: The framework comprises a broad theory base of codes of ethics and professional codes of ethics of teaching. The research materials were national curricula of early childhood education and care (ECEC) -and pre-primary education. The eight-step qualitative analysis process was applied to identify and shed light on the codes of ethics laying the foundations for purposeful and ethical early childhood education (ECE) teacher.  \nFindings: The results indicate that through both theoretical lenses, the Finnish ECEC curricula comprise several ethical codes. For the future purposeful ECE teachers as ethical professionals, the results raise questions for further discussion. Particularly, issues related to the ethics of  \nCorresponding author:  \nAnitta Melasalmi, Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Seminaarinkatu 1, 26100 Rauma, Finland. Email: anitta.melasalmi@utu.fi  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative  \nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)).  \ncare, intellectual freedom, inquiry stance, and professional competence, and diversity may further enhance our ECEC curricula.  \nOriginality/Value: During recent decades, the ethics concerning ECEC have gained increasing global attention. Particularly, there is a large international consensus considering ECEC as a prominent policy equalizing opportunities.  \nKeywords  \nDocument analysis, early childhood education and care, early childhood teacher education, ethical values  \nDate received: 4 June 2021; revised: 13 October 2021, 15 January 2022; accepted: 29 March 2022  \nIntroduction  \nDuring recent decades, the ethics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) has gathered increasing global attention. In particular, recognizing ECEC as a prominent policy to realize equality of opportunities has gained widespread international consensus (e.g., Paananen et al., 2019; Penn, 2002, 2005) . In this context, high-quality early learning opportunities have been established to positively affect children (e.g., Burchinal et al., 2010; Sylva et al., 2006) . Western research literature continuously connects the quality of early childhood education (ECE) with improved school-readiness skills, especially in reading and mathematics (e.g., Burchinal, 2017; Burchinalet al., 2015) . In some European countries, the last 15 years of ECE policy have led early childhood institutions to increasingly place more emphasis on enhancing children’s academic skills than on play and general well-being (Marschall, ","cbCaikMNwEd7Iw6h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikMNwEd7Iw6h","pdf",962078,23,"English","# Abstract\n## Purpose\n## Design/Approach/Methods\n## Findings\n## Originality/Value\n# Introduction\n## Ethical attention in global ECEC policy\n## Two ECEC traditions: Nordic and French–English","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the study on ethical early childhood teaching?\",\"answer\":\"The study aims to make complex ethical issues in Finnish early childhood education more visible so they can be discussed and changed democratically.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the Finnish curricula analyzed in the research?\",\"answer\":\"The research applies an eight-step qualitative analysis to national curricula for early childhood education and care and pre-primary education, focusing on ethics codes.\"},{\"question\":\"What key result is reported about ethical codes in Finnish ECEC?\",\"answer\":\"The findings show that Finnish ECEC curricula contain several ethical codes, raising questions for further discussion regarding future purposeful ethical professionals.\"}]","Purposeful and Ethical Early Childhood Teacher - The Underlying Values Guiding Finnish Early Childhood Education - Article | PDF",1792092476,58]