The BRIDGING project – citizenship, partnership and holistic development
The BRIDGING project – citizenship, partnership and holistic development

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the text is to introduce BRIDGING, an international project that involves professionalsworking in educational institutions (kindergarten, school or crèche), academic and cultural institutionfrom Poland, Portugal, Finland and Belgium1. The project aims to improve the quality of practices inearly childhood education through participation of children, teachers, cultural and academic staff inartistic projects in public spaces. Crucial part of BRIDGING is to promote various ways of communicationof children and adults using the concept of citizenship in the context of holistic approach. Additionallyour intention is to introduce the preliminary results of the first Polish part of the BRIDGINGproject research. The study was conducted to investigate how the project is perceived by kindergartenteachers. Although only the first results are presented here, it is already quite evident what the specificareas of teachers’ sense of vocational self-efficacy are. The results show that our respondents value theexperiences brought to them by the project. In their opinion BRIDGING gave them an opportunity toacquire knowledge about their city, neighbourhood and the partners’ countries. They also stated thatthe project has improved their skills of using ICT tools and various art techniques

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