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The European project entitled TIK - Tradition and Innovation @Kindergarten was written and coordinated by Pixel in cooperation with the project applicant, the Municipality of Guada Ssuar (Spain). The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Strategic Partnership in the field of School Education. The TIK European project aims to improve pre-school pupils’ basic and transversal competences through the transnational comparison of traditional tales.
Funding Programme
Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Strategic partnership in the field of School Education
Theme
Others
Target group
Higher Education, School Education
Project Reference
2017-1-ES01-KA201-038373
Date
01-11-2017 | 31-10-2019
Role of Pixel
Technical Coordinator
Project Details
Project Title
Tradition and Innovation @Kindergarten
Context
Science education is a key factor for European economy and society’s future competitiveness.
The Europe 2020 strategy has identified within its educational benchmarks that 2020 at least 95% of pre-school children of 4 years or older should participate in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Evidence shows that quality early childhood education and care can bring the highest rates of return over the whole lifelong learning process, especially for the most disadvantaged groups.
Objectives
The project aims to:
- Impact on pre-school pupils basic and transversal competences through the transnational comparison of traditional tales linked to the local territory in which they live with the ones linked - to the cultural backgrounds of pupils coming from other countries/ethnic minorities.
Enhance pre-school comprehension and communication through innovative audio-visual based approaches and tools.
- Implement a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to pre-primary education supported by innovative pedagogic materials for the purpose and ad hoc references methodological concepts in order to develop children’s cognitive and pre-cognitive social skills.
- Strengthen the capacity of pre-school teachers and of pupils’ families to build cooperation patterns.
Target Group
The project identifies and addresses three needs that play a crucial role in order to enhance the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC):
- Need to reinforce the capacity of pre - school teachers to involve their pupils in activities that according to appropriate didactical and communication methods can provide an early start of the development of basic and transversal competences.
- Need to raise children's families awareness of the importance that pre-school can have for the preparation and the passage of their children to primary school and in particular for disadvantaged groups (migrants, ethnic minorities, those at risk of social and economic exclusion) for the integration in the social life.
- Need to develop pre-school children cognitive and non-cognitive skills through the implementation of cooperative learning experiences, aimed at integrating the normal activities with relational and richer verbal interactions between pupils with a special focus on those coming from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Results
The TIK project expects to achieve the following results:
- Through the creation of ad hoc guides, the TIK project will provide pre-school teachers with the needed skills and competences to reinforce their capacity to adopt appropriate didactical and communication methods in order to involve pupils in learning activities that can provide them with an early start of the development of basic and transversal competences.
- Will provide pre-school teachers with practical experiences and reference materials to use traditional tales as a mean to promote the interaction and the mutual knowledge and respect among pupils of different nationalities, ethnic and religious groups and social and economic situation.
- Will provide families with ad hoc learning materials to raise their awareness of the importance that pre-school can have for the preparation and the passage of their children to compulsory school and in particular for disadvantaged groups (migrants, ethnic minorities, those at risk of social and economic exclusion) for the integration in the social life.
- Will propose to policy makers involved in the definition of ECEC strategies with an innovative paradigm for the cooperation between pre-school services and children families, that main literature on the matter, has identified as a crucial point for enhancing the quality of ECEC services