SIGNALSProgress reportDanish teamBudapest3 February 2015

New preschoolOsted preschool

Research problem

How to establish a co-operation between management, staff and parents in a Danish preschool aiming towards children’s health as well as their learning about health?

Research questions

• What view on health and children’s learning about health do pedagogues, management, parents and children possess?

• What practice and values characterize the works about health and health learning in preschool?

• What practice and values on health characterize the parent co-operation?

• Which potentials do pedagogues, management and parent see according a stronger parent co-operation about health?

• Which challenges can be identifies in the cooperation with parents?

Focus

• Osted preschool have decided to focus on health and children’ lunch – all lunch periods during the day

• Based on the hypothesis: If children get nutritional food, they will get more energy for physical activities, and mental capacity in order to involve themselves in social activities

• Following question appear:– How can we measure children’s well being and

health?– How to involve both parents and children?

• WE also have focus on own values and understanding in order to make up a shared educational perspective

Project plan – four phases

1. Start, January-June 20141. Research on health and parent co-operation2. Analyze of policy documents3. Planning

2. August-December 20141. Agreement with new preschool: Osted Preschool2. Carry through interviews, working with interviews3. Intern evaluation, October4. Parents meetings, December, on health education

and parents role5. Two staff meetings,

1. October on health and cooperation with parents; 2. December on educational theory and practice

(Didaktik) and meal-eduaction

Project plan – four phases

3. January-June 20151. Development2. Staff meeting:3. Observation4. Re-interview wit children5. Re-interview with parents

4. July-December 20156. Total analyze of data7. Discussion of data with project

participants8. Dissemination, one article is planned

Some tensions

1. The very best intentions in the co-operation with parents the specific practice

2. Parents as actual participants in preschool staff and the management’s view on parents

3. A wish about more health in preschool a variations of values on health