The project titled "Dissemination and promotion of understanding the Czech and Slovak language for secondary school students and preschool children in kindergartens," continues the cultural and linguistic proximity of the two neighboring countries - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. In the 20th century there was a Czechoslovak state, in which its inhabitants daily came into the contact with Czech and Slovak languages and practically everyone understood both languages in written and spoken form. The situation has changed by disintegration of the common state. Now the younger generation has got more difficult conditions to understand the language of the other country than the older generation did. The project aims at bringing languages and cultural values of both countries closer together, especially for the younger generation. The aim of the project is to spread understanding and support of the Czech and Slovak language for the secondary school students and for preschool children in kindergartens in both countries and to make the students and children familiar with the culture of Czech and Slovak republic.There are two organizations from two European countries - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic involved in the project. These organizations are schools, which provide similar field of education and their students are trained for teaching in kindergartens. The students from both schools will be personally involved in the promotion and dissemination of the Czech and Slovak language in kindergartens. They will join activities with pre-school children in kindergartens and will implement a variety of drama, art, music, physical and other activities leading to the goals of the project.Direct participants of the project:- The involved students of both organizations (60)- The involved teachers of both organizations (20)- The children in kindergartens (about 200 participating children)Indirect participants of the project (The numbers are estimates):- Students of both organizations (about 1200)- Teachers of both organizations (about 130)- Teachers in kindergartens (20)- Parents of students of both organizations and parents of children in kindergartens (around 2000)- The publicThe output of the project will be the creation of a bilingual methodological manual to disseminate and promote understanding of both languages in kindergartens. The students will take part in creating the manual with the support of their teachers. The methodological manual will be available in printed and electronic form and will be stored in school libraries and on the websites of both organizations, to be freely available to as many people as possible. There will also be other outputs like theatre performances by students in kindergartens, exhibitions mapping the project and the students´ and children's work results (for example bilingual memory game PEXESO).Monitoring and evaluation of the project activities and outputs will be provided during the whole project. There will be used a variety of methods, both qualitative and quantitative (for example interview, observation, questionnaire, content analysis). Project coordinators (with appropriate experience of project management, monitoring and evaluation of educational process) will be responsible for coordination of all monitoring and evaluating activities . Project coordinators will get the feedback from several groups of respondents: teachers from both schools, teachers from kindergartens, pupils from both schools and children from kindergartens. Various methods will be used to get the responses with regard to the effectiveness (with respect to the age of the respondents: preschool children, adolescents, adults). Both organizations will use observation's records, records from interviews, questionnaire surveys, content analysis of pupils´ and children's activities. Coordinators will also be responsible for reporting the results of monitoring and evaluation and for publishing the final reports on the websites of both organizations.The project impact on the participants involved is to understand the Czech and Slovak language and perception of cultural and linguistic diversity. Students of both organizations will deepen their proficiency related to the work activities. They will make familiar with the system of institutional pre-school education in another European country.
The project titled "The dissemination and promotion of understanding the Czech and Slovak language for secondary school students and preschool children in kindergartens," continued the cultural and linguistic proximity of the two neighbouring countries - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. In the 20th century there was a Czechoslovak state, in which its inhabitants daily came into the contact with Czech and Slovak languages and practically everyone understood both languages in written and spoken form. The situation has changed by disintegration of the common state. Now the younger generation has got more difficult conditions to understand the language of the other country than the older generation did. The project aimed at bringing languages and cultural values of both countries closer together, especially for the younger generation. The aim of the project was to spread understanding and support of the Czech and Slovak language for the secondary school students and for preschool children in kindergartens in both countries and to make the students and children familiar with the culture of Czech and Slovak republic. There were two organizations from two European countries - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic involved in the project. These organizations were schools, which provided similar field of education and their students were trained for teaching in kindergartens. The students from both schools were personally involved in the promotion and dissemination of the Czech and Slovak language in kindergartens. They joined activities with pre-school children in kindergartens and implemented a variety of drama, art, music, physical and other activities leading to the goals of the project. The output of the project was the creation of a bilingual methodological manual to disseminate and promote understanding of both languages in kindergartens. The students took part in creating the manual with the support of their teachers. The methodological manual is now available in printed and electronic form and it is stored in school libraries and on the websites of both organizations, to be freely available to as many people as possible. There were other outputs like theatre performances by students in kindergartens, exhibitions mapping the project and the students´ and children's work results. Monitoring and evaluation of the project activities and outputs were provided during the whole project. There was used a variety of methods, both qualitative and quantitative (for example interview, observation, questionnaire, content analysis). Project coordinators (with appropriate experience of project management, monitoring and evaluation of educational process) were responsible for coordination of all monitoring and evaluating activities. Project coordinators got the feedback from several groups of respondents: teachers from both schools, teachers from kindergartens, pupils from both schools and children from kindergartens. Various methods were used to get the responses with regard to the effectiveness (with respect to the age of the respondents: preschool children, adolescents, adults). Both organizations used observation's records, records from interviews, questionnaire surveys, content analysis of pupils´ and children's activities. The project impact on the participants involved was to understand the Czech and Slovak language and perception of cultural and linguistic diversity. Students of both organizations deepened their proficiency related to the work activities. They made familiar with the system of institutional pre-school education in another European country.