In my thesis, I investigated how educators work with parents of immigrant children. In the theoretical part, I first defined different definitions of the term immigrant child. Then I presented statistics about the number of immigrant children and what the diversity of their experiences is. Next, I defined the cooperation with parents, which is crucial for the child's successful development and the best possible integration in the educational process. In this chapter I have described the different models of cooperation with parents, focusing also on the partnership relationship, which is the most desirable way of working together in educational settings, and the forms of cooperation between educational staff and parents. In addition, I have described in more detail the formal and informal forms of cooperation. In the last chapter of the theoretical part I focused on the integration of immigrant children and their parents in kindergarten. I described the process of integrating immigrant children into the kindergarten and how the parents of immigrant children should be involved in the work of the kindergarten. Then I presented the forms and ways of cooperation with parents of immigrant children and how language, i.e. the lack of understanding of the Slovene language, influences the cooperation. Finally, I defined intercultural competences and described the most important ones.
The second part of the thesis is the empirical part, in which I describe the research I carried out by interviewing six kindergarten teachers from three public kindergartens. The aim was to find out how kindergarten teachers interact with parents of immigrant children. I was interested in how formal forms of cooperation (talking hours, parent-teacher conferences, etc.) with the parents of an immigrant child take place, how educators provide parents with up-to-date information about their child, and what educators do to help each other in communicating with the parents of an immigrant child and to improve the quality of the cooperation itself.
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