PLAYING

Early childhood education is a very important element in a child’s life and offer the opportunity to detect and respond to children’s individual needs and build their strengths, giving a fair start to all children, especially those coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Starting from the importance of offering high quality preschool services, the project partners have recognized the shared need of training teachers on pedagogical methodologies fostering social inclusion and developing children’s ability to learn and to master the language of instruction. The need for training becomes more substantial if considering that among preschool staffs, we can have assistants that in many EU educational systems can be employed without an initial qualification in ECEC.

Besides, the project partners recognize an essential role in pre-primary education to the play, as is the major modality to stimulate the mental and physical capacity of children and to facilitate their adaptation to the requirements of formal education. Play can have a large impact on development and in particularly in social development, language skills and cognitive development.

For this reason, PLAYING project meets the need of training preschool staffs, making sure to give due importance to the play in children’s learning and improving access and quality of the early childhood education and care systems (0-6 years).