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University of Eastern Finland: Joensuu, FI

2022-11-01 to present | Professor
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Päivi Pihlaja

University of Helsinki: University of Helsinki, FI

2020-08-01 to 2022-10-31 | Senior lecturer (Department of Education)
Employment
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Päivi Pihlaja

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Turku: TURKU, FI

1999-01-01 to 2022-07-31 | PhD, Associate professor (Department of Education)
Education
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Päivi Pihlaja

Works (10)

Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland

Early Childhood Research Quarterly
2025 | Journal article
Contributors: Päivi M.E. Pihlaja; Piia-Kaisa Åminne; Alice S. Carter; Nina Sajaniemi
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Describing the play of three-year-old children in the home context

Journal of Childhood, Education & Society
2024-07-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Petra Varttinen; Päivi Pihlaja; Piia Af Ursin
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Parental prenatal representations of the child are related to 18-month-old children’s social-emotional competence

Attachment & Human Development
2024-07-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Johanna Lindstedt; Riikka Korja; Alice Carter; Päivi Pihlaja; Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth
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Visions of an inclusive school – Preferred futures by special education teacher students

International Journal of Inclusive Education
2024-04-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Elina Nikula; Päivi Pihlaja; Petri Tapio
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Early childhood education and care policy change: comparing goals, governance and ideas in Nordic contexts

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
2024-02-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Nafsika Alexiadou; Carina Hjelmér; Anne Laiho; Päivi Pihlaja
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Erityispedagogiset sisällöt varhaiskasvatuksen opettajaopintojen opetussuunnitelmissa

Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
2023-07-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Päivi Pihlaja; Sonja Ojala
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Is Finnish early childhood education going private? – Legislative steps and local policy actors’ representations of privatisation

Policy Futures in Education
2022-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Anne Laiho; Päivi Pihlaja
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The Role of Academic Buoyancy and Social Support in Mediating Associations Between Academic Stress and School Engagement in Finnish Primary School Children

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
2021-06-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Piia af Ursin; Tero Järvinen; Päivi Pihlaja
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What do children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties think about themselves in early childhood?

Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
2020-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: M. H. Heinonen; P. M. E. Pihlaja
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Formal and informal sources of paternal support in early parenthood

Early Child Development and Care
2019-09-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Marko Lähteenmäki; Sevcan Hakyemez-Paul; Päivi Pihlaja
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for International journal of early childhood. (1)