Practices
Practices
Practices
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Thematic Field: ECEC<br />
Early Years and Equality – Observing and living each other's practice<br />
in Early Years to inform quality development<br />
Comenius Regio Partnership<br />
Institutions involved:<br />
Partner Regio 1<br />
Coordinator organisation: Staffordshire County Council<br />
Partner organisations: Stafford Children's Centre<br />
UK – United Kingdom Centre for Research in Early Childhood<br />
Partner Regio 2<br />
Coordinator organisation: City of Antwerp<br />
Partner organisations: Stedelijk kinderdagverblijf (Children's Day Care Centre De<br />
BE - Belgium Duveltjes)<br />
Kinderdagverblijf Kadee (Childre's Day Care Centre Kadee)<br />
KDV 't Folieke<br />
Basisschool Unescoschool<br />
GO! Onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap<br />
Key words: Quality, Diversity<br />
Description:<br />
The overall purpose of the project was to improve quality in early year's provisions<br />
and settings and aimed to examine what quality overall means and in particular in<br />
relation to equality and diversity within provisions, early language acquisition,<br />
transition points in a child's learning and development.<br />
The exchanges of staff (job shadowing weeks in both regions) offered early years<br />
practitioners in Flanders, Belgium and in England a unique opportunity to have firsthand<br />
experiences of early years practice in the other country, and to explore with<br />
colleagues in the other country aspects of practice and the reasoning behind it.<br />
Proactive and mutual reflection help practitioners and their counterparts in the<br />
other country, as well as their colleagues ‘at home’ to attain maximum benefit from<br />
collaborative reflection. The learning and the improvements in practice thus acquired<br />
benefit all the children of the schools involved.<br />
At the start of the project a toolkit was produced to give information to practitioners<br />
about observation and reflection and it provided a coherent framework and common<br />
language to collect practitioners’ ideas, thoughts and questions. The revised toolkit is<br />
and free for use by others although practitioners should be given instructions and<br />
supported by their managers before, during and after the whole process of using the<br />
toolkit.<br />
Duration:<br />
2010-2012<br />
Webpage:<br />
http://eyeproject.eu<br />
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2010-1-GB1-<br />
COM13-06198<br />
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