Mutual

An ERASMUS+ project promoting better integration of preschool children from different language and culture background

Year: 2019

Over the last three years, we have therefore been developing the grounds to share, disseminate and further develop the approach of multicultural/multilingual education in early years. We have developed tools, materials and training to equip early years practitioners, childcare professionals, preschool teachers, childminders, special needs workers, volunteers, with the skills of how to encourage the pluricultural/plurilingual education through early years education and care. Essential in this process was the close cooperation and involvement with parents, local communities as well as policymakers.

The project has also gathered some important considerations from early years teachers which were collected through our research and evaluation work.

Best practices

This document shows how we, the Erasmus plus project MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL LEARNING IN EARLY YEARS – MUTUAL, implemented our results, the models and approaches for the integration and inclusion of children with refugee/migrant background.

Mutual handbook

This framework is based on the results from the interviews and discussions with childcare professionals and managers at 15 nurseries/preschools in the period between January and March, 20017. In the search for the ideas, we have looked for the examples of good practises from the previous or ongoing Erasmus plus projects, in particular, the cases of the similar projects within Comenius/Erasmus plus project funding scheme in particular: the projects Parents Corner and Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Preschool Children.

Greece dissemination conference

You are kindly invited to take part in final Conference of the project Multicultural and multilingual learning in early years which will take place at College for Early years education, Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 16, on Friday, 31st May.

UK: Sign/ gestures supported language – instruction in nurseries and preschool training

The use of sign supported language developed with the intention to offer hearing children from linguistically different environments a chance to communicate in a more differentiated way, i.e. communicate their emotions, wishes and needs before they are able to do so in spoken language of the early years environment, and for as long as the efficiency of spoken language production (with special regard to vocabulary) is lower than that of sign production.

Final conference of the project

Partners of the project

Greece: Story of my name and Heroes and heroines in my family

The 6 hours training program on four learning activities on “The story of my name” and two by the subject “Heroes and heroines in my family”.

Sweden: Using sign language and QR codes in the preschool classroom

The 16 hours training program on using sign-language and QR-codes in the preschool classroom to support early language acquisition and integration have proven to be successful scaffolding tools for all children, but especially those with another native tongue.

The Czech Republic: Good Start Teacher Training

The 40-hour training program – Support of Social and Emotional Development of Pre-school Children from Socially Disadvantaged or Culturally Different Environment.

The main goal of the training program based on the “Good Start” methodology is to increase the competences of pedagogical staff in pre-school facilities, thus contributing to the improvement of work with children, supporting healthy development and growth of children in terms of development of their social and emotional skills in early years

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