Development of Parent Involvement Models for Bilingual Pre- and Primary School

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

The Project partners, the University of Tartu, the University of Helsinki and the University of Latvia have initiated the Project to face the cross-border challenge of providing equal opportunities for successful bilingual education for children of language minority groups. Estonia, Finland and Latvia have a common challenge in providing bilingual education to integrate the minorities. In Estonia and Latvia, Russian-speaking population is a quarter of the population. In Finland, in the context of growing immigration, the country is facing the challenge of languages and multiculturalism in education more generally. In addressing the challenge, the Project takes a specific and focused approach on parent involvement which is also in line with the education as well as integration policies and strategies of partner countries, underlying the importance of community and especially the family involvement in education. The Project sees the need for taylor-made complex approach, combining the traditional models of parent involvement with bilingual education specific themes and methods, also taking into account the context of old or new immigrants, adding elements from immigrant counselling services. The Projects main result is a complex, tested and applicable work package of PIMs specifically targeting the context of bilingual learning process. This material is a much needed starting point for further active development and practice of bi- and multilingual education specific parent involvement programmes in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. The Project’s main activities are divided into three stages: 1) overview of available knowledge and best practices 2) conducting a survey and preparing for piloting 3) conductiong the pilot and delivering a complex, tested and applicable work package of PIMs, specifically targeting the context of bilingual learning process

Achievements (EN):

PIM - a bi-lingual education process for children: PIM improved bi-lingual education process for children within Russian-speaking minority groups in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. This was achieved by creating a Parent Involvement Model (PIM). The focus was on ages between 5-10. The Parent Involvement Model was piloted in pre-schools (1 in Finland, 2 in Estonia and 5 in Latvia) and elementary schools (1 in Finland, 2 in Estonia and 2 in Latvia). In total, 719 parents were involved in the pilots, thus exceeding the set aim of 250. The pilots included educational information activities that emphasised cooperation between families and schools, as well as family events organised together with pre-schools. The project produced globally applicable guidelines for cooperation between ethnic minorities and schools, background information regarding parent involvement models within Russian-speaking families, a training programme for educators with focus on bi-lingual education, and a practical work package for developing parent involvement models.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.1. Communities with improvements

Expected Outputs (EN):

The Project's main direct tangible result is a complex, tested and applicable work package of PIMs specifically targeting the context of bilingual learning process. This material is a much needed starting point for further active development and practice of bi- and multilingual education specific parent involvement programmes in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. The communities receiving the firsthand benefits from the Project results are the school communities of Russian-speaking bilingual schools in the partner countries. The first beneficiaries are the schools to participate the Project’s pilot. The Project will improve the home-school cooperation by approaching and supporting the parents as responsible partners in bilingual education, aware of the benefits of multilingualism and familiar with the policies of multicultural education. Currently the main responsibility in bilingual education in the partner countries has been on the teachers and schools. In the course of the Project rise of awareness of as well as involvement of the parents will help to build mutual understanding between home and school to acknowledge each other’s share in the child’s education experience. On one hand, educators have to understand specific problems of bilingual families and differences in their practices, one the other hand, the parents should be aware of the benefits of bilingual education and of the ways how they can stimulate bilingual linguistic development of their children at home. The Project will enable the Russian-speaking school communities improve home-school cooperation. The process, in turn, will have a direct impact on broader Russian-speaking communities gathered around the schools in the same town, and the same region. Through the schools, the changes can be initiated from the grass root level, but the overall influence will have an impact on the whole society.

Thematic information

Education and training Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More people benefiting from stronger Central Baltic communities

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Tartu Ülikooli Pärnu Kolledž

Department: Narva College

Address: Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.narva.ut.ee

Total budget: EUR 93 565.00

ERDF budget: EUR 79 530.25

Helsingin yliopisto

Name: Helsingin yliopisto

Department: Department of Modern Languages, Russian Language unit

Address: Yliopistonkatu 4, 14 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/yliopisto/

Total budget: EUR 68 940.00

ERDF budget: EUR 51 705.00

Latvijas Universitāte

Name: Latvijas Universitāte

Department: Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art

Address: Raina Blvd 19, 1586 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lu.lv/

Total budget: EUR 42 360.00

ERDF budget: EUR 36 006.00

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University of Helsinki

Development of Parent Involvement Models for Bilingual Pre- and Primary School

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Latvijas Universitate

Development of Parent Involvement Models for Bilingual Pre- and Primary School

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University of Tartu

Development of Parent Involvement Models for Bilingual Pre- and Primary School

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Summary

Project name (EN): Development of Parent Involvement Models for Bilingual Pre- and Primary School

Project acronym: PIM

Project start date: 2015-09-01

Project end date: 2017-08-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 204 865.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 167 241.25

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 167 241.25.

Documents

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Reports

COMPLEX AND TESTED WORK PACKAGE OF PIMS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Training programme for educators

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

REPORT ON RESEARCH RESULTS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: en

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WORLD’S BEST PRACTICE OVERVIEW

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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2023-11-11

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663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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Development of Parent Involvement Models for Bilingual Pre- and Primary School

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