Children bring transformation to the system. Results from the KoSy project - competent systems with the Situational Approach
Abstract
With a systemic view of the ECEC system (Urban & Macha, 2022) the Institute for the Situational Approach (ISTA) develops its projects as a combination of practice development and research. The project ‘KoSy - competent systems with the Situational Approach’, funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, is an example for how this process of knowledge development works: In a participatory research setting, our team, together with educators and through them with children, explored where children have points of contact with the children’s centre’s provider in their everyday lives and how children perceive providers. The results show that children do develop an idea of the system in which their children’s centre is integrated. Once they have the necessary information, they are eager to contribute and take part in decision making. Adults in the system can profit from children’s perspectives if they can welcome their ideas and create spaces of dialogue. This questions the view of children as incapable of understanding and contributing to the system. We seek to be open for new ways to see the agency of children and to underline how important it is to value and use the views of children to improve the ECEC system.
Keywords: children’s perspectives, ECEC system, systemic view, early childhood
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