Practices

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