This paper analyses the importance, role, and methods of cooperation
between parents and preschool institutions through the different concepts
of preschool education and different educational approaches and
formal frameworks. Through educational approaches, the authors analyse
how cooperation affects the implementation of preschool education
in alternative educational approaches, such as the Waldorf, Montessori,
and Reggio Emilia approaches, and Slovenian public preschool institutions.
They envisage that different educational approaches in preschool
education perceive the importance and role of cooperation with parents
differently and conclude that there are various models of cooperation,
which can be demonstrated through a theoretical analysis of the aforementioned
alternative preschool approaches. In their view, partnership
promotes a shared commitment to the quality realisation of educational
goals; it also develops understanding and an ethos of openness in the
relationship between all actors in the process of care and education of
preschool children.
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