Reflecting practice during the apprenticeship of child care workers in European daycare facilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reflecting practice during the apprenticeship of child care workers in European daycare facilities

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Migrants’ issues; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The project was carried out in schools and kindergartens, involving educators, teachers from schools and educators undergoing training. The aim was to sustainably promote the development of social, civil society and intercultural skills, critical thinking and the fight against discrimination, exclusion and racism at European level. The learners first studied the culture of their partner countries before shooting a documentary film about the daily routine and the work of an educator in day-care centres in Sweden, England and Germany. In the documentary, the learners examined the educational work while coping with the topic of social integration. The students of the Faculty of Social Work (pupils of the Fachschule für Sozialwesen) examined their own values and working methods in a five-day internship abroad at the kindergartens of the partner countries. In addition to their own value assessment through reflective practice, the students expanded their professional language skills in a peer learning context. Within the framework of the teaching portfolio, the learners have created portfolios for their own discussion. A flyer was produced for the dissemination of the project and the documentation was recorded on the website https://rpase.wordpress.com/. In addition, common materials for the lessons were developed. The project was accompanied by the municipalities and was reported on in daily newspapers. Surveys of the participants helped to ensure that the work was on topic and well reflected. Other schools and day-care centres can use the materials or the project idea to train the learners or the educational staff as well. The website can be used, for example, to create new teaching assignments for students on specific topics. The discussion of the topics, the creation of documentation films and the exchange of results took place online, interactively, transnationally and on the basis of the joint work of all participants. During the project, teachers and educators, among others, networked and further developed the school as a training location. A specialist conference on the project’s topic with specialist contributions from external experts supported the work process and was held at the Institute for the Situation Approach (ISTA) in Berlin.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66430 Eur

Project Coordinator

Landrat-Gruber-Schule Dieburg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Westminster Nursery School
• Hjalmar Strömerskolan
• Cheshire College South & West
• Strömsunds kommun Rotnäsets förskola