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Thematic Field: ECEC<br />
Towards Opportunities for Disadvantaged and Diverse Learners on the<br />
Early-childhood Road<br />
Comenius Multilateral Project<br />
Institutions involved:<br />
University College South Denmark (Denmark), West University of Timisoara<br />
(Romania), Artevelde University College (Belgium), Kingston University (United<br />
Kingdom), University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany), Instituto Politécnico<br />
de Santarém (Portugal), Universitat Ramon Lull (Spain), Haute Ecole Libre Mosane<br />
(Belgium)<br />
Coordinating institution:<br />
Universitetet i Stavanger (Norway)<br />
Key words: Quality, Diversity, Parental involvement, Staff competences<br />
Description:<br />
The project shows the educational potential of high quality education and care in<br />
centre-based settings for toddlers, in particular for those from low education/low<br />
income/migrant families.<br />
The project focuses on the development of provisions for toddlers and investigates<br />
different approaches to improve curriculum and teaching strategies and to<br />
strengthen parental engagement. The project is based on the principle that the<br />
most enduring cognitive results are achieved when both cognitive and socio-emotional<br />
outcomes are pursued simultaneously. The involved teacher training institutions<br />
cooperate with student teachers, teachers working with toddlers and policy makers.<br />
The project collects knowledge and experience on how to enhance equity in early<br />
education (0 - 3 years) and implements this in teacher training programmes of the<br />
involved institutions.<br />
The knowledge and examples of good practice gathered within the project will be<br />
developed into a European in-service course and a course module for student<br />
teachers. The course material shall invite practitioners and students to reflect on the<br />
learning conditions for disadvantaged children in early childhood settings and<br />
provide them with tools for their better integration in schools.<br />
Duration:<br />
2010-2013<br />
Webpage:<br />
http://www.toddlerineurope.eu<br />
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