Promoting Children’s Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55707/ds-po.v39i3-4.148Keywords:
quality in early childhood education, professional development, reflectionAbstract
Children’s participation is a fundamental principle of contemporary education. To ensure children’s participation, a Model for Promoting Children’s Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care has been developed that enables educators to self-reflect on their practice, analyse children’s participation, listen to children’s and parents’ voices, and link children’s participation to the quality of early childhood education and care. The aim of the paper is to present findings regarding the importance of the model for promoting children’s participation in early childhood education and care and the current state of children’s participation. The qualitative study is based on the multi-perspective participatory approach to promoting children’s participation in action. The findings suggest that the model has great potential for researching and promoting children’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, especially children’s expression and teachers’ professional reflection.
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