LIBrary as online Educational Repository Techniques in European Community pre- schools

Project idea is set on pursuing a more and more high quality ECEC and revolved around its need of innovation by updating the digital competences of educators and preschool teachers to deal with th...

LIBERTEC aimed at developing a methodological proposal to carry out the documentary task in a digitized way based on the pedagogical features of the work in ECEC and on the real needs of the 0-6 professionals: the LIBERTEC Guidelines. Guidelines offer to teachers & educators an overview on the best European educational practices for the 0-6 age range and –above all- an innovative model to perform the traditional documentation of daily pedagogical & management work with ICT supports. In pursuing this primary objective, partners intended also to contribute the quality improvement of the 0-6 System working on its modernization and on the operators’ competences upgrade (especially on digital skills), making the ECEC more digitally resilient and ready to face today educational challenges. The specific activities required to design and implement the Guidelines enhanced the sharing/exchange of the good pedagogical and management practices in use in partner countries for early childhood (kindergarten, preschools, other services for 0-6 children) as well as their valorization. This further common purpose contributed to a more modern, inclusive, high-quality childhood education with a European added value.

The project output is an original methodological proposal for digitized pedagogical documentation for ECEC teachers, educators & pedagogical coordinators: the so-called LIBERTEC Guidelines. They include a collection of good practices for the 3 main activities considered essential in early childhood pedagogy (Management of daily routines; Definition of play/teaching spaces; Pedagogical documentation) for their fruitful sharing/borrowing among EU ECEC organizations (Part I) and a special focus on digitized documentation and on the required competences for this task (Part II). Guidelines give indications on how to combine the traditional paper method to track preschool daily work with the digital one and list several programs useful to support the educational equipe in daily assignments. Adopting a digitized repository for management procedures and pedagogical strategies can support the staff, the users (children & families), and institutional parts & stakeholders in a fully functional ECEC system. The ECEC Compendium is as collateral output summarizing the results of the project preliminary research offering a rich reading of the 0-6 system in partner countries showing familiarities, differences, strengths, lacks and policy trends.