Family, Local Community and Kindergarten Cooperation in Developing Children's Social Competence

Summary:In recent years the need for a holistic approach to education is becoming an important issue. Its role is fundamental in raising awareness about the fact that the quality of children's life and the process of education... [ view full abstract ]

Summary:

In recent years the need for a holistic approach to education is becoming an important issue. Its role is fundamental in raising awareness about the fact that the quality of children's life and the process of education are influenced by a whole series of interactions in the child's immediate environment. In the municipality of Tinjan for twenty years now and Swimming School project is carried on, attended by children between the age of four and fifteen, experts, pre-school teachers from the local kindergarten in the first line, as well as the local community as co- organizer and financial sponsor of the School Swimming. This paper analyzes the possible influence of the cooperation between the family, the kindergarten as an institution and the local community on the development of children's social competences on the example of the Swimming School in the Kindergarten Tinjan. During the last Swimming and school survey was conducted among participants and their parents. The collected data were then processed, analysed and used by the authors of this paper to prove the given hypothesis, Which states that the successful cooperation between the family, the kindergarten and the local community can have a positive influence on the development of the Children's Social competences in a very short period of time. The aim of this paper is to present the results of the research on the extended social environment impact on the mastering of swimming skills and the development of children's social competences In this research the following methods were used: questionnaire for parents and children, interviews with the children, Likert-type scale. The data were processed using the qualitative method. 

Keywords: cooperation, children, development, social competence