In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the German government took drastic measures and ordered the temporary closure of early childhood education and care services (apart from emergency care). Most ...pedagogical professionals in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings were unable to provide institutional care for children during this period, and thus experienced difficulties fulfilling their legally mandated professional obligation to educate children. Building on the importance of professional–parent collaboration, this study investigates the reasons ECEC professionals gave for (not) being in contact with parents during the pandemic. The database comprises a nationwide survey conducted between April and May 2020 (
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= 2,560 ECEC professionals). The results show that the vast majority of respondents were in contact with parents; their stated motives include providing informational or emotional support for parents and children, maintaining a relationship, or inquiring about family wellbeing. The explanations for not being in contact with parents include already existing contact with parents by another member of the ECEC staff, an employer-mandated contact ban, problems on the parents’ side, or personal reasons. We find some differences between managers in center-based childcare, pedagogical employes in center-based childcare, and professionals in family based childcare. Practical implications concerning professional–parent collaboration and the temporary closure of ECEC services are discussed.
Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a public service for all children and families living in Finland. To advance the child´s growth, development and learning, cooperation with ...parents is an essential part of ECEC. According to the National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care, one of the underlying values in ECEC is the diversity of families. However, according to various studies, the curricula for ECEC reproduce a family-centered discourse based on a hegemonic and ideal nuclear family. Although there are a lot of children in Finland who are affected by their parent´s imprisonment, very few studies on how parental incarceration is dealt with in ECEC exist. It is common that ECEC staff do not know that a parent is in prison, which makes providing support to the family almost impossible; hence more openness is needed. Additionally, at an institutional level, ECEC should be much more inclusive and focus on diversity, equality, and equity. Culturally relevant pedagogy considers the diverse sociocultural worlds the children live in – including parental incarceration. Educators should reflect on their own personal views about parents who have committed crimes and remember that children are always innocent. Lastly, more societal discussion on prejudices and discrimination against parents who are or have been in prison is needed.
Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a public service for all children and families living in Finland. To advance the child´s growth, development and learning, cooperation with ...parents is an essential part of ECEC. According to the National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care, one of the underlying values in ECEC is the diversity of families. However, according to various studies, the curricula for ECEC reproduce a family-centered discourse based on a hegemonic and ideal nuclear family. Although there are a lot of children in Finland who are affected by their parent´s imprisonment, very few studies on how parental incarceration is dealt with in ECEC exist. It is common that ECEC staff do not know that a parent is in prison, which makes providing support to the family almost impossible; hence more openness is needed. Additionally, at an institutional level, ECEC should be much more inclusive and focus on diversity, equality, and equity. Culturally relevant pedagogy considers the diverse sociocultural worlds the children live in – including parental incarceration. Educators should reflect on their own personal views about parents who have committed crimes and remember that children are always innocent. Lastly, more societal discussion on prejudices and discrimination against parents who are or have been in prison is needed.
Expectations towards institutions tasked with early education and care are constantly changing. Parents or guardians of children are looking for places that will help them to raise a child, ...frequently it is exactly in collective care institutions where they would like for the child to acquire some of the competences and skills needed in later life. The meaning of the article is to show the benefits stemming from the cooperation between form teachers and the parents of children enrolled in one of the children’s clubs in Lower Silesia. The article presents a description of the cooperation between the facility’s staff and the parents of two children: Jacek, who had developmental difficulties and problems with social contacts, and Małgosia, in whom selective mutism was suspected. Jacek attended the children’s club for a period of two years, while Małgosia, for less than a year. At that time, various turning points occurred in the cooperation of the staff with the children’s parents. Cooperation between parents and form teachers is the key to the harmonious development of a young person, and it seems to be particularly important in the case of difficulties in the development and everyday functioning of a child being noticed.
In a survey, 840 parents of children with cognitive deficits who were educated either in special schools or in inclusive classes were asked to assess their children's school experiences. The results ...showed an overall high degree of satisfaction with the schooling, but there were marked differences among the parents' assessments depending on the degree of learning disabilities and on the type of school. Satisfaction with their children's social experiences and satisfaction with the special education curriculum depend on these two factors. All in all, many parents of children in inclusive classes were satisfied with their children's schooling than those of children in special schools. The analysis of the causes for discontent showed that dissatisfied parents had chosen the type of school under less favourable conditions and a larger part of them are still not convinced of this necessity of additional help. This applied to parents of pupils in inclusive classes as well as to those of pupils in special schools. Furthermore, parents of children with German as a second language showed a higher degree of discontent than others.
Mehrsprachigkeit gehört heute unbestreitbar zum Alltag in der Frühpädagogik. Dennoch ist Sprachbildung, die als Voraussetzung für Bildungserfolg gilt, häufig auf die Förderung schulreifer ...Deutschkenntnisse beschränkt. Über die Tiefendimensionen von Mehrsprachigkeit - gerade aus Sicht der Eltern - ist indes wenig bekannt. Janne Braband rekonstruiert die subjektiven Theorien von Eltern und Kitafachkräften über mehrsprachiges Aufwachsen in einem qualitativen Forschungsdesign. Die Ergebnisse beleuchten u.a. die Wirkmächtigkeit migrationsgesellschaftlicher Ordnungen und geben Anhaltspunkte für einen Umgang mit sprachlicher Vielfalt jenseits einer Defizitperspektive.
Kompetencije učitelja u suvremenoj školi znatno se razlikuju od onih koje su bile potrebne za tradicionalni načina poučavanja. Nekadašnji prijenos znanja bio je usmjeren na predavačku nastavu, gdje ...je učenik morao biti pasivni slušač. Danas su učiteljske kompetencije usmjerene na socijalni i emotivni razvoj učenika. U kontekstu različitosti koje obogaćuju našu školu, učitelj treba biti spreman na individualni pristup svakom učeniku, izradu posebnih i prilagođenih postupaka, suradnju i partnerstvo s roditeljima, timsko djelovanje. Učiteljska se kompetencija stječe putem studija i izgrađuje unutar iskustvenog profesionalnog polja. Njegovo daljnje cjeloživotno obrazovanje postalo je neizbježno.
U radu je navedeno koje kompetencije treba imati učitelj u suvremenoj školi. Praktični dio rada obuhvaća istraživanje o razvijenosti kompetencija učitelja iz perspektive njih samih. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju kako su učitelji kompetentni za rad u suvremenoj školi, ali isto tako je vidljivo da teže stalnom usavršavanju te cjeloživotnom obrazovanju.
Posljednjih petnaestak godina u svjetskoj i hrvatskoj obrazovnoj praksi provedena su brojna istraživanja o važnosti suradnje roditelja sa školom a dobiveni rezultati pokazuju da je ona iznimno važna ...za sve sudionike te da partnerski odnos škole i roditelja donosi svima višestruke koristi. Osim uobičajenih načina komuniciranja putem individualnih razgovora i roditeljskih sastanaka, pisanih poruka, neformalnih sastanaka, edukativnih radionica, uključivanjem roditelja u nastavni proces u ulozi pomagača i sl., najsuvremeniji načini komunikacije s roditeljima su web stranice škola, web mjesta učitelja, e-mail i SMS poruke. Cilj istraživanja bio je ispitati imaju li web stranice hrvatskih osnovnih škola sadržaje koji će potaknuti roditelje na česte posjete i omogućiti učenicima stjecanje novih znanja. Dugoročni je cilj potaknuti škole na redovito postavljanje novih sadržaja koji će rezultirati kvalitetnom suradnjom doma i škole te poticati učenike na istraživački rad iz svojih domova i time unaprjeđivati kvalitetu učenja. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo po 25 web stranica osnovnih škola iz Istarske i Splitsko-dalmatinske županije odabranih slučajnim izborom. Dobiveni rezultati pokazuju da web stranice hrvatskih osnovnih škola svojim sadržajima nisu model za intenziviranje suradnje s roditeljima te postavljanje temelja novoj kulturi učenja i da ne postoji statistički značajna razlika u sadržajima među dvjema županijama.
Provider: - Institution: University of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Department of Pedagogy. - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Epidemiološka slika ovisnosti o drogama u ...Republici Hrvatskoj ukazuje na potrebu
poduzimanja učinkovitijih strategija u prevenciji pojave ovisnosti o drogama. Nedovoljna
učinkovitost preventivnih aktivnosti koji se provode u osnovnim i srednjim školama
poziva na osmišljavanje i implementaciju programa prevencije ovisnosti o drogama već u
predškolskom razvojnom razdoblju djeteta. Sazrijevanje društvene svijesti o važnosti
obitelji te istraživanja utjecaja roditelja na cjelokupni razvoj djece govore o neophodnosti
uključivanja roditelja u predškolsku prevenciju ovisnosti o drogama.
U našoj zemlji još uvijek nisu osmišljeni znanstveno utemeljeni programi predškolske
prevencije ovisnosti o drogama. S obzirom na važnost ranog starta prevencije i
uključivanja roditelja u realizaciju prevencije, opći cilj ovog istraživanja usmjeren je k
prepoznavanju nekih temeljnih potreba i mogućnosti aktivnog sudjelovanja roditelja u
prevenciji kako bi se definirao odgovarajući model suradnje s roditeljima u predškolskoj
prevenciji ovisnosti o drogama.
Polazeći sa stanovišta ekološke teorije, u provedenom istraživanju zanimale su nas
interakcije između nekih značajki roditeljskog podsustava i ostalih mikrosustava u bližem
okruženju roditelja. Specifični ciljeva istraživanja usmjereni su prema ispitivanju nekih
temeljnih informacija roditelja o pojavi ovisnosti o drogama i njezinim posljedicama;
ispitivanju mišljenja roditelja o potrebi predškolske prevencije ovisnosti; uočavanju
mogućih navika konzumacije duhana, alkohola ili tableta kod roditelja kao mogućih
prediktora zlouporabe droga; uočavanju preferiranih odgojnih postupaka roditelja te
ispitivanju nekih relevantnih dimenzija obiteljskih odnosa. Cilj istraživanja usmjeren je
također i prema ispitivanju razine ostvarenog partnerstva između roditelja i odgojitelja
predškolske djece te prikupljanju podataka o izvorima i oblicima socijalne potpore uže
društvene okoline koji su roditeljima dostupni, a kako bi se identificirala skupina roditelja
koji primaju neke od oblika društvene potpore te kako bi se uočile potrebe i problemi s
kojima se suočavaju roditelji u svakodnevnom životu.
Istraživanje karakterizira kvantitativni istraživački pristup, a empirijski podatci
prikupljeni su metodom anketiranja na prigodnom uzorku od 350 roditelja djece
predškolske dobi koja pohađaju predškolske ustanove. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na određeni broj roditelja koji su nedovoljno informirani
o drogama i štetnim posljedicama njihovog djelovanja, kao i na 40,6 % roditelja koji
konzumiraju duhan, 23,1 % roditelja koji imaju nekog člana u užoj obitelji koji češće
konzumira alkohol te na 13,1 % ispitanika koji konzumiraju duhan i istovremeno imaju
pojavu alkoholizma u obitelji. Iako rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da većina roditelja
izražava nepermisivne stavove u svezi pojave ovisnosti o drogama, pozitivne stavove
glede potrebe prevencije pojave ovisnosti te negativne stavove o poduzetim aktivnostima
službenih institucija zaduženih za smanjenje štete i potražnje droga, uočena je skupina
roditelja koji imaju permisivne stavove u svezi s konzumacijom droga, negativne stavove
o potrebi predškolske prevencije ovisnosti o drogama te permisivne stavove u svezi s
legalizacijom marihuane. Ispitivanje dosadašnjeg sudjelovanja roditelja u aktivnostima
prevencije pokazuju da je 0,3 % roditelja sudjelovalo u aktivnostima prevencije ovisnosti
o drogama na razini predškolske ustanove, a svega 4,6 % roditelja je sudjelovalo u
preventivnim aktivnostima koje su organizirane u lokalnoj zajednici. Rezultati pokazuju
da bi se 73,1 % roditelja odazvalo na aktivnosti prevencije u predškolskoj ustanovi, a
58,9 % roditelja je izjavilo da bi sudjelovali u preventivnim aktivnostima na razini
lokalne zajednice. Rezultati ispitivanja učestalosti i oblika realizacije partnerstva između
roditelja i odgojitelja ukazuju na nedovoljnu nazočnost pojedinih oblika partnerstva.
Temeljem istraživanja oblika i izvora društvene potpore te percepcije zadovoljstva
primljenom potporom moguće je zaključiti da jednom dijelu roditelja treba kvalitetnija
pomoć, posebice formalnog sustava potpore.
Odgovori roditelja u svezi uporabe pojedinih odgojnih postupaka u situacijama
neprihvatljivog ponašanja djece pokazuje da određeni broj roditelja reagira negativnim
odgojnim postupcima te nekvalitetno komunicira s djecom. Uočena je također skupina od
24,9 % roditelja koji nisu uspjeli ostvariti vrlo bliske donose sa svojom djecom. Podatci o
samoprocjeni osjećaja roditelja u obnašanju roditeljske uloge pokazuje kako određeni
broj roditelja doživljava nesigurnost, zabrinutost ili nervozu u obnašanju roditeljske
uloge. Navedeno govori o potrebi pružanja potpore roditeljima u razvoju vještina
pozitivnog, djelotvornog i privrženog roditeljstva. Rezultati istraživanja koji se odnosi na
obiteljsku koheziju i fleksibilnost pokazuju da je u nekim obiteljima ugroženo obiteljsko
funkcioniranje, odnosno nedostaje obiteljske komunikacije, vremena za zajedničke aktivnosti te dominira donošenja odluka od strane jednog člana u obitelji. Ukupno 6,8 %
roditelja žive u problematičnom susjedstvu. Kvalitetom života nisu zadovoljni niti
nezadovoljni 18,6 % ispitanika, dok je 1,4 % ispitanika izjavilo da je nezadovoljno
kvalitetom života. Temeljem dobivenih rezultata istaknuti su neki mogući rizični
čimbenici pojave ovisnosti o drogama u individualnom, obiteljskom i društvenom
kontekstu roditelja.
Prijedlog modela suradnje s roditeljima u predškolskoj prevenciji ovisnosti o drogama
polazi od iskazanih potreba i spremnosti roditelja na suradnju u području predškolske
prevencije ovisnosti o drogama, kao i od identificiranih obilježja individualnog,
obiteljskog i društvenog konteksta roditelja. Predloženi model, utemeljen na ekološkom
pristupu i razvojno-humanističkoj paradigmi, sadrži opće i specifične ciljeve suradnje s
roditeljima u predškolskoj prevenciji ovisnosti, kao i okvirne sadržaje i prijedloge
indikatora evaluacije modela suradnje. Predloženi su također i oblici provedbe modela te
načini uključivanja i zadržavanja roditelja u provedbi modela suradnje s roditeljima u
predškolskoj prevenciji ovisnosti o drogama.
Provedeno istraživanje otvara neka nova istraživačka pitanja u vezi s povezivanjem
prevencijske teorije i prakse. Implementacija i evaluacija predloženog modela suradnje s
roditeljima u predškolskoj prevenciji ovisnosti može doprinijeti definiranju hipoteza za
buduća istraživanja problema prevencije ovisnosti o drogama.- The epidemiological situation of drug addiction in the Republic of Croatia indicates a
need to undertake more effective strategies in preventing the appearance of drug
addiction. The lack of effectiveness of prevention activities implemented in elementary
and secondary schools shows the need to design and implement programs to prevent drug
addiction already in the preschool period of child development. Maturation of social
awareness about the importance of family and studies on the impact of parents on the
overall development of children have pointed out the necessity of involving parents in
preschool prevention of drug addiction.
In our country the scientifically based preschool programs on drug addiction prevention
have not yet been designed. Given the importance of starting early prevention and parent
involvement in the implementation of prevention, the overall objective of this research is
aimed to identify some basic needs and opportunities for active participation of parents in
prevention in order to define a cooperation model with parents in the preschool
prevention of drug addiction.
Starting from the viewpoint of ecological theory, in this research we were interested in
the interaction between some features of the parental subsystem and other microsystems
in the parents’ environment. Specific research goals are directed towards examining some
basic information of parents about drug addiction and its consequences; exploring the
parents’opinion about the need of preschool drug addiction prevention; identifying the
possible habits of parents’ consumption of tobacco, alcohol or pills as potential predictors
of drug abuse; identifying preferred educational practices of parents and examining some
relevant dimensions of family relations. The aim of the research is also to estimate the
level of actual partnership between parents and preschool teachers and to collect data on
the sources and forms of social support that are available to parents in the immediate
social environment in order to identify a group of parents who receive some form of
social support, and in order to identify needs and problems that parents face in everyday
life. This research is based on quantitative research approach and empirical data were
collected by questionnaire on a sample of 350 parents of preschool children who attend
preschool institutions.
The results suggest that some parents are insufficiently informed about drugs and the
negative consequences of drug consumption, as well as 40.6% of parents who consume
tobacco, 23.1% of parents who have a member of the close family who frequently
consumed alcohol, and at 13.1% of the respondents who consume tobacco and also have
the occurrence of alcoholism in the family.
Although the results show that most parents expressed nonpermissive attitudes regarding
the phenomenon of drug addiction, a positive attitude on the need to prevent drug
addiction and negative attitudes regarding the action taken by official institutions
responsible for harm reduction and drug demand, a group of parents is identified who
have permissive attitudes about drug use, negative attitudes regarding the need of
preschool prevention of drug addiction and permissive attitudes about the possibility of
legalizing marijuana.
Research of the parents’ previous participation in the prevention act
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