Extended Education Facilitation Key Competence Cooperative Learning (EKCO)
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Profile
- Project leadership
- Patricia Schuler Braunschweig (PHZH), Andrea Scholian
- Organisational unit
- F-PS-LPP (Lehrberufe und Pädagogische Professionalität)
- Project phase
- Completed (1.9.2023 – 31.8.2026)
- Project type
- Research & development project
- Funding
- Movetia
- Participating institutions
- ZHAW School of Social Work; University Stavanger; Linköping University; College of Education Viborg; Johannes Kepler University Linz
Description
All-day facilities are situated at the interface between family life and school life, between the private and public spheres. The challenge lies in designing all-day facilities as something that is different to school and family life and that also creates possibilities to foster “childhood”. The political discourse on the quality of all-day facilities ranges from topics concerning rudimentary childcare on to supplementary educational programmes.
A lack of oversight documents as well as staff diversity at such facilities leads to numerous educational activities that remain mostly unseen and undocumented. There is also no general consensus about what children attending all-day facilities should be offered. Transferable skills such as participatory, independent and cooperative learning are often named as topics. The well-being of the children in all-day facilities is a key factor for their scholastic achievement, especially if they spend a great deal of time in these facilities.
In order to ensure quality in the all-day facilities, the EKCO project applies the methodologies of observation and documentation to render visible the implicit knowledge that pedagogical staff have on current practices. Through this work, the project team can develop quality criteria and concretise current practices under consideration of socio-pedagogical principles such as the children’s ability to have a voice, to participate and to be autonomous.
The target group are children who attend all-day facilities as well as staff at the facilities who create and plan activities and thus foster the acquisition of transferable skills.
The participatory school improvement project is an international European collaboration with Norway (University of Stavanger), Sweden (Linköping University), Denmark (College of Education, Viborg) and Austria (Johannes Kepler University, Linz), and is funded by the EU Erasmus Plus Programme. In the project, researchers and professionals work together to improve the quality of all-day facilities with the aim of promoting transferable skills in the pupils. The participation of the Swiss partners (ZHAW School of Social Work, PH Zurich and an all-day school from the Limmattal school district) receives funding from the Movetia foundation.