Parental involvement in early childhood education - cooperation between parents and children

The present study is part of a larger European project, named TODDLER - Towards Opportunities for Disadvantaged and Diverse Learners on the Early - childhood Road, which analysis the early childhood education in several European countries focusing on the development of provisions for toddlers and investigates different approaches to promote learning in a child centred way, including parental engagement. The countries involved in this project are Norway, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Romania. Parents from all those countries are questioned regarding family dynamic, the family's relationship with the Day-care Centre, family's participation in the day-care centre activities and equity and opportunities for children in the day-care centre. A qualitative interview was used in each country to assess all the above items, a number of 25 parents being investigated in each country. In the present paper we will show the results obtained from the Romanian parents. Also in a next step a comparative analysis among parents for all the participating countries will be performed. Based on the results the final product of this work package of the project will be the developing and printing of a Teacher's Guidelines book outlining effective methods of establishing and continuing cooperation between practitioners and parents.