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CIP-Center for Interactive Pedagogy partnered with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological...

Published in:
2022
Country:
Serbia
Language:
Albanian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Farsi, Hungarian
Contact:
Milena Mihajlović, milena@cipcentar.org
ECEC, education

The InTrans project ultimate goal is to ensure that all children and families — especially the most vulnerable — benefit from warm and inclusive transitional...

Published in:
2022
Organization(s):
VBJK, Step by Step Centre for Quality in Education
Country:
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Slovenia
Language:
English
Contact:
Katrien van Laere, katrien.van.laere@vbjk.be
ECEC, education

The ultimate goal of the InTrans project is to ensure that all children and families — especially the most vulnerable — benefit from warm and inclusive...

Published in:
2022
Organization(s):
VBJK, Step by Step Centre for Quality in Education
Country:
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Slovenia
Language:
English
Contact:
Katrien van Laere, katrien.van.laere@vbjk.be
ECEC, education

The ultimate goal of the InTrans project is to ensure that all children and families — especially the most vulnerable — benefit from warm and inclusive...

Published in:
2022
Organization(s):
VBJK, Step by Step Centre for Quality in Education
Country:
Belgium, Finland, Italy, Slovenia
Language:
English
Contact:
Katrien van Laere, katrien.van.laere@vbjk.be
ECEC, learning, social learning

This report explores how ‘core capacities’ – or cornerstones of more familiar concepts, such as life skills and competences – develop over the early part of the life course, and how they contribute to children’s personal well-being and development.

The project builds on the existing...

Published in:
2021
Organization(s):
The Learning for Well-being Foundation
Language:
English
Contact:
Shanti George, shanti.research@gmail.com
ECEC, primary school, diversity, workforce

The Learning for Well-being Foundation, the European Council of Steiner Waldorf Education (ECSWE) and the Hungarian Waldorf Federation, in an Erasmus+ project collected stories from classrooms and schools across Europe demonstrating alternatives to the exam factory. Twenty inspiring practices...

Published in:
2021
Country:
European Union, Hungary
Language:
English
Contact:
Eva Izsak, eizsak@issa.nl
education, Ukraine, displacement

The project "Let's Learn without Borders" was created by the Ukrainian Institute of Education Development (UIED) in response to the current crisis in Ukraine. Due to the Russian invasion, thousands of families with children have had to stay in shelters for a long time or move to neighboring...

Published in:
2022
Country:
Ukraine, Europe
Language:
Ukrainian
Contact:
Eva Izsak, eizsak@issa.nl
education, Ukraine, displacement

Children’s education must go on! A new online platform is supporting families and children affected by the war in Ukraine to easily access distance learning.

The “Ukrainian Online Schedule” by the ...

Published in:
2022
Country:
Ukraine
Language:
Ukrainian, English
Contact:
Eva Izsak, eizsak@issa.nl
refugees, diversity, European Union

This is the Toolbox of the Erasmus+ project Multilingual early childhood education and care for young refugee children. In this project (2016-2019) the consortium made an inventory of the existing services, activities and programmes for young children from refugee and asylum-seeking families in...

Published in:
2020
Country:
European Union
Language:
English
Contact:
Eva Izsak, eizsak@issa.nl
early childhood services, diversity, workforce, European Union

With the aim to support ECEC settings, leaders and professionals to identify and overcome these challenges, the Diversity+ project has launched the Diversity+ Charter: a...

Published in:
2022
Country:
European Union
Language:
Slovak, Dutch, Czech, English, Italian
Contact:
Zorica Trikic, ztrikic@issa.nl
child health, gender, fathers

PARENT manual provides insights and guidelines to engage men in nurturing care and transformations. It tackles the issue by reaching out and involving frontline workers from sectors such as health and social service as well as new fathers or fathers to be. 

The manual addresses engaging...

Published in:
2022
Country:
Portugal
Language:
Portuguese, English
Contact:
Tatiana Moura, t.moura@promundoglobal.org
early childhood care and education, workforce, healthcare, social protection, Bulgaria

The topic of people working directly with children and families in the health, education and social work stands out when looking for sustainable solutions to challenges faced in early childhood care and education. This topic is even more important in Bulgaria given the...

Published in:
2021
Organization(s):
For Our Children Foundation
Country:
Bulgaria
Language:
Bulgarian, English
Contact:
Dimitar Ivanchev, d.ivanchev@detebg.org
Moldova, children 3-5, children 5-8, professional development

Reflective teachers for quality education is a book reflecting the Step by Step Moldova NGO experience in promoting transformative democratic, child/earner-centered education. The book has three chapters.


Chapter one – From the Diversity of Teachers’ Practices -...

Published in:
2021
Organization(s):
Step by Step Educational Program
Country:
Moldova
Language:
Romanian
Contact:
Cornelia Cincilei, ccincilei@gmail.com
ECEC, quality, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, children 0-6, ECEC spaces, educare

EDUCAS Toolbox aims to support coordinators, coaches, trainers, professionals that seek to stimulate professional development paths with ECEC staff with the aim to create child and friendly learning spaces in ECEC centres. 

The Toolbox includes pedagogical approaches, methods and tools...

Published in:
2021
Organization(s):
VBJK, Center for Innovative Education, University of Parma, ISSA
Country:
Belgium, Italy, Lithuania
Language:
Dutch, English, Italian
Contact:
Nima Sharmahd, nima.sharmahd@vbjk.be
ECEC, quality, early childhood policy, ECEC spaces, educare

Educating and caring for young children is a big responsibility, challenge and commitment. The POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS for strengthening the importance of SPACE and EDUCARE approach in early childhood systems aim at providing a comprehensive set of recommendations for policymakers on EU...

Published in:
2021
Organization(s):
EDUCAS team
Country:
Belgium, Lithuania and Italy
Language:
English
Contact:
Nima Sharmahd, nima.sharmahd@vbjk.be
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Welcome to ISSA Knowledge Hub!

All the resources stored here have been created by ISSA Members or ISSA Secretariat in partnership with Members or partners.

Resources
Practices
 
 
Ukraine, children with disabilities, family, inclusive classroom, inclusive practice, professional development, services for children

Inclusive Resource Centers (IRC) in five sites in four regions were developed under the programme supported  by USAID. Their main purpose is to provide complex inter-sectorial support to children with special needs, their parents and teachers working with these children in pre-school and primary...

Organization(s):
Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation
Country:
Ukraine
Language:
English
Contact:
Natalia Sofiy, nsofiy@gmail.com
Kazakhstan, ECEC, family, primary school, quality education, quality pedagogy

The Growing Together project consisted of three parts: improving preschool education practices by using the ISSA Principles of Quality Pedagogy and parent and community involvement; building community and  partnerships at the primary school level, and parental education. The project's results...

Organization(s):
Community Foundation Step by Step
Country:
Kazakhstan
Language:
English
Contact:
Dina Aidzhanova, daidzhan@mail.ru
Kazakhstan, professional development, quality pedagogy

Inclusion of a course on the ISSA Principles of Quality Pedagogy for fourth year students at the Kazakh Women's University in Almaty, and three methodological training centres in Kysyforda, Zhambul, and Semey regions with co-financing. 


Organization(s):
Community Foundation Step by Step
Country:
Kazakhstan
Language:
English
Contact:
Dina Aidzhanova, daidzhan@mail.ru
Kazakhstan, family, parenting support

Family Resource Centres were established in Kyzyforda, Zhambul and Semey in Kazakhstan to assist families whose children were not attending preschool (typically poor families). The centers welcomed children and families to prepare them for primary school. The parents received information on...

Organization(s):
Community Foundation Step by Step
Country:
Kazakhstan
Language:
English
Contact:
Dina Aidzhanova, daidzhan@mail.ru
the Netherlands, Ukraine, children with disabilities

Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services started to develop in Ukraine as an initiative of NGO organizations in 2000. During the last years, ECI has been actively developing in several Ukrainian regions. A Consortium of Ukrainian and international organizations started in 2008 lobbying for...

Organization(s):
SOFT Tulip Foundation
Country:
the Netherlands
Language:
English
Contact:
Eric Bloemkolk, eric.bloemkolk@softtulip.nl
Serbia, quality integrated services

Novi Sad Intersectorial Network for Children (NSMEDE) is a local inter-sectorial network aiming to provide a strategic and systematic framework for improving the position of children in Novi Sad. Through the establishment of a flexible model of inter-sectorial cooperation among actors at the...

Organization(s):
Know How Centre
Country:
Serbia
Language:
English
Contact:
Tatjana Lazor Obradović, tatjana.lazor@gmail.com
Serbia, family, outreach programs, parenting support, professional development, Roma, social inclusion

The practice Supporting the early development of children in informal Roma settlements aims to improve the social inclusion of children aged birth to six and their families. The Know How Centre organizes activities aimed at enriching Roma parents' skills living in settlements to provide quality...

Organization(s):
Know How Centre
Country:
Serbia
Language:
English
Contact:
Milenka Matic, cpzvns@gmail.com
Czech republic, kindergarten, primary school, professional development

The Learning Together project has created a network of 15 Centres for Peer Support, which provide a platform for mutual learning across institutions. This platform provides peer support across eight kindergartens and eight primary schools to help improve the competences of teachers, create...

Organization(s):
Step by Step
Country:
Czech Republic
Language:
English
Contact:
Jana Schierlová, jana.schierlova@sbscr.cz
Albania, Kosovo, family, parenting support, school mediators, services for children, vulnerable groups

The Learning Centers Network initiated by Balkan Sunflowers connects 40 Learning Centers managed by different NGOs in Albania. These centers include preschool services, curriculum support, literacy and science programs, and an education mediator targeting the most vulnerable children and their...

Organization(s):
Balkan Sunflowers
Country:
Kosovo
Language:
English
Contact:
Muhamet Arifi, muhamet_arifi@balkansunflowers.org
the Netherlands, ECEC, social-emotional learning, sustainable development goals

Aflatot: Early childhood education for sustainable development. This study took place in the following countries: Albania, Serbia, Slovakia, Kenya, Zambia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, India and the Philippines to document the effects of the Aflatot programs on social emotional outcomes for young...

Organization(s):
Aflatoun International
Country:
the Netherlands
Language:
English
Contact:
Tetiana van Waveren-Valkova, tetiana@aflatoun.org
the Netherlands, TOY for inclusion, intergenerational, learning, services for children

The purpose of the Together Old and Young (TOY) Programme is to promote intergenerational learning and to create new possibilities for older adults and young children to learn together and benefit from each others’ company. People are living longer but older adults and young children are having...

Organization(s):
International Child Development Initiatives ICDI
Country:
the Netherlands
Language:
English
Contact:
Margaret Kernan, margaret@icdi.nl
Slovakia, early childhood policy, early childhood services, Roma

A functioning model for multi-stakeholders collaboration at municipality level to work with Romani communities is developed to improve the responsiveness and accountability of local authorities, particularly elected and senior civil servants towards marginalized Roma communities and to build the...

Organization(s):
Wide Open School
Country:
Slovakia
Language:
English
Contact:
Miroslav Sklenka, miroslav.sklenka@gmail.com
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