Practices

Thematic Field: ECEC
IN.DEM Quality in preschool through inclusive and democratic
education
Comenius Multilateral School Partnership
Countries involved:
IT, NL, SE
Key words: Quality, Staff competences, Diversity
Description:
This project focuses on the experiences in the field of age 0-6 education developed in
the pre-schools participating in this project. Its main goal was to share and
disseminate a discussion about quality in education. The basic principle was the idea
that children have strong abilities ever since birth. They master different languages:
verbal and non-verbal, visual, body and symbols. This project sought to explore
how teachers can create opportunities to offer children the chance to develop such
languages and ways to express themselves. This idea, common and known on a
theoretic level, but not on a practical one, could lead to create new high quality
opportunities for children. Therefore, the project intended to offer and provide
teachers with proper tools and specific skills throughout education.
The different project activities such as study-visits highly fostered the desire to
discover other cultures and social, political, educational histories; it also gave the
opportunity to enforce the idea that the experience about children demonstrates how
education can be considered an essential resource for the countries and for the
development of a quality daily way of living.
The Indem Project Blog showcases the most significant events that have
characterized the project (as conferences, workshops, study visits). The project also
created a "Best Practices Book".
Award:
EST star project
Duration:
2008-2010
Webpage:
http://www.progettinfanzia.eu/it/?page_id=50
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2008-1-SE1-
COM06-00216
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