A benevolent and demanding european pedagogy. Erasmus Project

Project Title

A benevolent and demanding european pedagogy.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

From the early childhood, the preschool must offer a high quality of education since it will influence the child’s future.
One of the rpriority of the teachers is to set up the favorable conditions to the development of the child and to organize the relevant educational sequences that are convenient to the learnings.

The last research in neurosciences proves that a child gets a higher level of knowledge and it will last longer if he takes pleasure in learning and if he finds the keys of his problem himself. Children that receive this type of education are more aware of their schoolmates and they have higher results than the average level. This fact is confirmed by the french PISA results which are deceiving since they point out the lack of confidence and the fear of failure of the french students. Our priority is to build this kind of school, benevolent and capable of giving self confidence, but also demanding in terms of learnings, capacities and skills.

Our questionning is the following one: How do we organize this benevolent school, what structure, what kind of teachers, what tools, how should we behave ? We have to find the way to create a surrounding that respects the child’s needs so as to develop his skills, understandings and the quality of his knowledges.
That’s the reason why we want to exchange our pedagogical practices in Europe in order to find the sequences that respond to these needs. The main goal is to create a real pedagogical toll box that contains all the practices, organizations, pedagogical sequences that will enable each teacher to teach this kind of benevolent and demanding pedagogy.

For this project six european kindergarten will participate : Sweden, Italia, Greece, Estonia, Denmark and France. These six countries have already been engaged in empathic pedagogy. The main purpose of this pproject is to create a collective website that will become a data base for all the european teachers that want to get involved in that kind of pedagogy. We will be helped by a professional webmaster to elaborate this website so that it will be translated in the six different languages and also in english. Each part will be a blog that will allow a real participation from the six educative community.
Our working methode will be the following one : the benevolence will be examined on various point of view, the teacher’s role, he child’s place, the organization of the classroom and of the material, the parents’ actions, the following-up of the work, the time schedule, the management of particular disabilities.
During each mobility we will focus on two different criteria. At first, we will elaborate an observation grid that will enable us to identify what are the criteria that allow a benevolent pedagogy. In a second time through this grid we will observe what is going on in our host’s classroom and we will analyze it together. At last, back in our country, each partner

Back in our schools, each partner will present with a video, pictures or a power point presentation, his interesting pedagogical practices that he uses in order to share it with the educative community. Each partner will try in their classroom the interesting pedagogical discoveries that we’ve made during the mobility. The procedure will be the same after each mobility, so that we can use and try in our own practices, the different aspects of this benevolent pedagogy discovered collectively.

Every intellectual production will be uploaded on the collective website. The results of our work during each mobility will be also diffused during the meetings with the parents and the conferences that we will organize with the pedagogical community.
More than 3 000 persons will directly benefit from this project : all the students from the concerned kindergarten, but also their parents and every associative or institutional school partners. Will also be concerned, the entire pedagogical community that will have access to our website and our data base.

The project’s impact will occur in each school participating at this project through the evolution of their teachers’ practices and the new organization of their school. The teachers from the 6 countries concerned will progress in their attitudes, practices, capacities and will be able to apply the best European pedagogy. They will form themselves and become better educational professional.Our students will get confidence in themselves, discover the pleasure of learning and progress in their skills. In a wider impact, every educator that has access to our work, through the website or the conferences, will be able to find elements to help him produce a benevolent and demanding pedagogy.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112905 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole Maternelle Capendu & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Emneth Nursery School & Children’s Centre
• Tallinna Nurmenuku Lasteaed
• Maleviks förskola
• 60o Nipiagogio Irakliou
• Istituto Comprensivo “Militi”