A kindergarten is becoming a place where children, parents and kindergarten teachers from various cultural backgrounds are often united. The differences outside the kindergarten as well as in it are caused by various rejections, second thoughts, even stereotypes and prejudices. To experience differences as something positive it is important that children are acquainted with them in a pre-school era. A role of a kindergarten teacher in this respect is therefore very important.
The thesis is based on a carried out project “Intercultural Collaboration between the Kindergarten Ringa raja and Roma Kindergarten Romano.” Within the project certain activities and gatherings were carried out which enabled children to identify the similarities and the differences in various fields and to experience them as something positive.
In the first part of the thesis I focused on the following topic namely from multicultural to the intercultural education, intercultural education in the nursery and Roma’s integration in the education process. Through concise descriptions and reflections I presented the course of the objective of the project and its evaluation that I wrote based on interviews with educators who were directly involved in the project, as well as from my own perspective. Throughout the project, I found that preschool offers conditions for a quality intercultural education. The guidelines can already be found in the kindergarten Curriculum; however I noticed that in practice they have not yet fully come to life. Nevertheless, some teachers still have doubts, concerns of intercultural education and this is passed on to the children. Those differences are not as much sensed by the children as much they are by adults, children feel rather the same. I found out, that it is upon us adults whether our children live intercultural or not, for our prejudices are carried on to the children, children have no prejudices.
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