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The "European Qualification Framework of Diversity Ambassador in ECEC environments” has been developed with the aim to improve ECEC HR management, to profile critical knowledge, skills and attitudes required to respond to individual and group needs of children from different backgrounds and with special educational exigencies. Specific learning resources complement the EQF profile in order to smoothly develop the role of a Diversity Ambassador: a key feature of a diversity positive ECEC provision.
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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 set of minimum requirements that ECEC services and institutions have to meet to accommodate different types of diversity and be classified as inclusive and diversity positive (Diversity+).
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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 used during the EDUCAS project to support professionals in improving ECEC environments with an educare approach.
Available in English, Dutch, Italian and Lithuanian.
Issa Practices
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food deprivation of households with young children has emerged as a priority among priorities.Associazione 21 luglio applied the following method:1) selecting five formal monoethnic settlements of special emergency housing;2) carrying out a survey by telephone that highlighted the malnutrition of many children, particularly infants and young children;
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For young children a phone line has been activated: they can call the line every day from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 12.00 to listen to fairy tales in Italian and Romanes languages that have a Roma protagonist. The stories were taken from the book “Gipsy fairy tales” by Alberto Melis, and translated by 4 Roma, from Rome, Mazara del Vallo (Sicily), and Pisa (Tuscany).In every baby aid package, we also put a flyer that presents this service to point out the importance of play and fantasy even in this phase of lockdown, and the opportunity of relationships beyond material help.
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The Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in Education is a ground-breaking manual which uses a permacultural lens to inspire child-friendly approaches to embed education for a sustainable future into preschool, kindergarten and primary school programs.
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Growing through sharing together: Needs and aspirations of Romani early childhood professionals report was developed to support ISSA and Early Childhood Program at the Open Society Foundation to launch The Romani Early Years Network (REYN). The selected group of practitioners provided information through questionnaires and interviews regarding their continuous professional development needs stating that it would be of great importance to combine formal and in-service training which would result in either certification or diplomas.
