OUTDOOR-ORIENTED OUTDOOR-ORIENTED PRACTICES IN EARLY PRACTICES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Project Context project aims, expected results, tasks & responsibilities and project outputs 2
Description of the project Early childhood is a critical period for the child's development and education. The support provided during this period allows the child to live the rest of his life as a healthy individual. 3 It is crucial that the child learns in a safe environment by discovering with the help of playing since playing games is one of the most effective ways for children to get basic information about the world.
There are many reasons why children do not spend much time on the street but stay indoors or spend most of their time at home in these days 4
The reasons of staying indoors can be listed as following: 1. Increasing number of programs or channels targeting children as audience, 2. Misuse of technological tools, 5 3. Distorted urbanization, 4. Financial situation, 5. Safety.
Within the scope of this project, it is aimed: to enable students to discover and learn by experiencing by means of a safe street designed according to child's development and education, 6 to support their development and education, to enable them to interact with their peers, to increase family participation, to enable teachers and teacher candidates to use the street effectively as a teaching/learning environment.
The creation of a street environment structured with rich stimuli to contribute to the development and education of children and offering it to the children under the supervision of expert trainers will make a significant contribution to the possibility of ensuring that children spend some time outside 7 with their peers.
The objectives of the project to design a child-friendly educational street, to raise awareness of in-service and pre-service pre-school 8 teachers by informing them about the importance of outdoor activities and providing implications for their implementations,
The objectives of the project to raise awareness of other stakeholders by disseminating project results, for example, at a multiplier event or with 9 booklets,
The objectives of the project to enhance children's socio-emotional and psycho-motor development, and cultural awareness by providing them a real-life like environment as an educational context, 10 to design appropriate pedagogical activities for children to take part and for teachers to get an opportunity to apply for outdoor-oriented education.
The expected results of the project Staying outdoor for a longer time and being engaged in physical activities will contribute to children’s psychomotor development, physical health, and basic education. The child 11 who spends more time outdoor will be able to learn by searching, exploring, and experiencing.
The expected results of the project Interacting with their parents and peers for a longer time contributes to children’s socio-emotional, cognitive, and personality development. The child who has a good time with 12 his/her parents will have emotional satisfaction. Spending time with the peers also supports many developmental areas and the child’s personality development.
Spending good time on a safer street constructed in a way to provide positive impact on children’s development and their protection from negative external factors will result in a change of negative perceptions of parents and teachers, if there are any, towards the street and it will lead to owning positive 13 attitude towards it.
The street to be surrounded with rich stimulants to support the development and education of children will enable the activities to be carried out in the pre-school education process to be 14 realized there and enable teachers and prospective teachers to develop a positive attitude towards using streets more effectively as an educational environment.
It is very important for the parents to participate in children’s education process in the preschool period effectively with teachers’ guidance because the pre-school education is not only 15 carried out at school but also enriched at home with family participation. The safe street designed in this framework will both contribute to active family participation and raising awareness of the family in terms of children’s development and education.
Children who spend more time outdoors will be more aware of the development of living things like plants in their natural habitats and will benefit from the opportunities that nature 16 offers more. A better understanding of the environment by the children while spending time outdoors will contribute to their development.
It is foreseen that the different viewpoints that can be formed between the layers in the society and the different viewpoints of different socio-economic, socio-cultural, or disability 17 situation, gender differences, and immigration can be changed as a result of children spending time together on the street without developing any discriminatory viewpoints with the guidance of the pre-school teachers. Furthermore, a positive interaction can be achieved among parents who bring their children to the street.
The project activities ACTIVITY 1: Project Management From the start till the completion of the project. 24 Months. Leader Organisation: SAU Activity 1.1: Finalizing the Project Team Month 1. In the leadership of Prof. Dr. Küçükturan 18 Activity 1.2: Preparations before the transnational meetings Month 2 (Stitching Drio), Month 8 (SAU), Month 14 (Portugal), Month 20 (LEU). Activity 1.3: Budget Control Constant monitoring on the budget. Each coordinator is responsible for the expenditures in their activities. SAU team's coordinator will be regularly receiving reports on the budget Month 6, Month 12, Month 18, Month 24.
Activity 1.4: Time Management Constant monitoring on the time. Each coordinator is responsible for keeping up with the deadlines asserted in the timetable for the project activities. SAU team's coordinator will be regularly receiving reports on the time schedule Month 6, Month 12, Month 18, Month 24. 19 Activity 1.5: Reports on the Activities Each coordinator will prepare the reports of the conducted activities and submit the reports to the coordinating university. The mentioned reports will be submitted to the Quality and Management Association of SAU; thus, the external evaluation will increase the objectivity of the implementation of the activities.
ACTIVITY 2: Online Meetings To monitor the project activities and implementation of these activities, online meetings with the participation of all partner teams will be held. Month 5, 11,17,24 20 ACTIVITY 3: Dissemination Activities All partners will be responsible of carrying out dissemination activities. Websites, fliers, e-book, videos of the implemented activities, visuals and location of the street, the congress, and social media accounts are going to be used to share the project details with other stakeholders. During the project (24 months).
Output 1: Educational Design of a Child-friendly Street: Month 1, Month 2, Month 3. Output 2: 3D Modelling of the Child-friendly Street: Month 4, Month 5, Month 6, Month 7, Month 8, Month 9. Output 3: Compiling an E-book on Outdoor-oriented Practices: Month 21 10, Month 11, Month 12, Month 13, Month 14. Output 4: Online Training Modules: Month 15, Month 16, Month 17. Output 5: A Course Design for Early Childhood Education Departments: Month 18, Month 19. Multiplier Event: Congress : Month 20, Month 21, Month 22, Month 23, Month 24.
For the completion of the project activities, all partners will work in collaboration by using online platforms like Gmail groups, Whatsapp, Hangouts, Facebook, Google docs, etc. 22 Slack By means of the effective collaboration, the project partners will be able to ask, discuss, negotiate, and/or suggest any ideas related to the implementation of the project activities.
Intellectual outputs Output 1: Educational Design of the Street (01.12.2018- 28.02.2019) 23 The pedagogical design of the street will be carried out with the involvement of all participants in the process coordinated by the Dutch team of the project due to mainly their expertise in educating children on the street such as giving traffic education.
Intellectual outputs For O1: Checking the location of the street and planning the activities accordingly, Literature review about the development of children with 24 necessary skills, Literature review about the design of the possible educational equipment to be placed on the street, Needs Analysis of children regarding their development, Determining the educational activities to be carried out on the street, Designing the educational activities to be carried out on the street.
Output 2: 3D Street Modeling (01.03.2019-31.08.2019) The following steps are going to be followed for the3D Street Modeling: 25 Visiting the Netherlands to observe the Woonerf Street Model, Getting detailed information about the construction of a street for educational purposes, Getting legal permissions about the construction of the street, Determining the location of the street,
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