Parents weekends
1st workshop – A day as a child
2nd workshop – Impact of toys on academic and professional career
How did we from kindergarten “Dječji svijet” approach to processing to default theme? Our research had two stages. First, we organized parental meetings in all three branches of Kindergarten „Dječji svijet“ (Varaždin, Petrijanec, Beretinec). From the total number of parents, 180 of them responded. www.vrticdjecjisvijet.hr
First we explained the subject of our research to present parents. After that we shared a short questionnaire to them. Questions were: 1. Which is your career? 2. Which toy marked your childhood? 3. Do you think that toys you played with somehow influenced on choice of your career and to what extent? www.vrticdjecjisvijet.hr
Results: 1. Careers of parents : •engineers •teaching staff •health workers •administrativeworkers •salesmen •artistic occupations
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•office clerks •mechanics •caterers •ICT specialists •personal services
2. We noticed a difference based on age of parents. As toys which marked their childhood, older parents mostly indicated dolls and weapons (homemade swords, catapults). Also, those parents indicated games which they played with those toys (gathering of all children from the neighborhood and games of war, cowboys and Indians, sewing clothes for dolls, symbolic games with dolls). Younger parents mostly indicated dolls and Barbie dolls (mothers), as well as vehicles and constructional toys (fathers). www.vrticdjecjisvijet.hr
3. From the total number of 180 parents, 171 of them answered under b) They didn’t influence, and only 9 parents answered under c) I’m not sure.
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They didn't influence
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I'm not sure
In second stage of our research, we gave questionnaires to children and their parents. Questionnaires were made of two questions: 1. Which is your/your child’s favourite toy? 2. Acording to civilization and technological changes, in the future I would like to be/my child could be: a) job that exists today b) job that belongs to future jobs Results can be seen in following graphicons. www.vrticdjecjisvijet.hr
Graph 1: A favourite toy 12
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Graph 2: What will I be when I grow up children 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
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Graph 3.a: What will my child be in the future? parents 6 5 4
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Graph 3.b: What will my child be in the future? parents 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
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Conclusion Acording to results of this questionaire,as well as talking to present parents, we concluded that toy doesn't influence on making a choice of future academic and professional career. Choosing right career is a whole life process and it requires realistic picture of yourself, of your abilities, potentials and achievements. www.vrticdjecjisvijet.hr
Jakov (5,5 years old), “Astronaut” “You are driving in a rocket and you see planets up close.”
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Julija (6,5 years old), “Dentist” “To fix people’s teeth, to be nice and white, and to save them from bacteries...”
Niko (5,5 years old), “Fireman” “To fight the fire and to help people against it...”
Ena (6,5 years old), “Traffic cop” “To make traffic safe and to make people get to work on time,”
3rd workshop – Inspiring movements
In February we held a second Tiny hands atelier. The task was to make different kind of instruments. We decided to combine that workshop with second Parents weekend workshop named “Inspiring movements�. So we invited parents of our pupils to our kindergarten where they first made fun instruments together with their children and used them for play afterwards.
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Preparation of materials for making the instruments in the workshop for children and parents
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Workshop in the kindergarten - children and parents are finding creative solutions for making instruments
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We used our new instruments in the carnival parade
We also visited a home for daily care of the elderly in Petrijanec and family of a boy from our kindergarten where they prepared a little carnival celebration with donuts
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We continued to use our new instruments in our everyday work in the kindergarten
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