EXPERTS wants to develop a continuous training environment for early childhood education professionals. The approach of this European project is based on a storytelling methodology. Kindergarten teachers, day mothers and day fathers are invited to tell stories about their experiences as a child, how they were brought up on the one hand as well as stories from their own professional routine on the other hand. Discussion facilities will be offered within a forum supervised by experts. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

Society is going through profound changes, and the process of transformation is bringing new challenges for the educational sector: migration and integration, working schedule flexibility and mobility, increasing number of children with adjustment disorders and undesirable development are some of the most challenging questions for education professionals.

At the same time research has proven impressively that early childhood education is the most important time to initiate a healthy development and prevent effectively development problems. In this context, the role of kindergarten teachers, day mothers and day fathers is a most crucial one, as they have to master the ever harder task of raising healthy, socially competent and capable young people.

In this context, EXPERTS wants to foster professional training and exchange among kindergarten teachers, day mothers and day fathers. Writing down their stories and experiences will make these educators explicitly and implicitly aware of patterns and difficulties, which stay in correlation with their own childhood experiences. Furthermore these stories can serve as a basis for exchange and discussion on educational issues with other kindergarten teachers and what they can learn from their peers' experiences.

If you want to participate in this Project, please, e-mail comunicacion@waecemail.org

Know the working team!

Sibylle Moebius, Amitié, Italy; Francesca, Amitié, Italy; Vojko Strahovnik, IPAK, Slowenia; Jens Geyer, ILI, Germany; Sabine Rohleder,ILI, Germany; Ulrike Hetzner, ILI, Germany; Elvira Sánchez, AMEI-WAECE, Spain; Begoña Arenas, Scienter Spain; Alexandra, Amitié, Italy; Nina Merivirta-Köykkä, OPEKO, Finland; Marko Lahtinen, OPEKO, Finland.