Gothenburg, June 16th, 2017. The #BRIC project got to the dissemination phase with the International Conference held at the University of Economy and Law.
The whole day, 200 delegates from different Countries met and discussed about Young Children, Public Spaces and Democracy.
Preschool teachers, parents, politicians, school managers and university professors reflects about and around the relation between children and public spaces, trying to sort out ideas for urban planning, didactics, pedagogy and public policies. The conference had his focal point in the different workshops developed around the 18 good practices (6 from each of the three Countries, Sweden, UK and Italy) under investigation. Preschool teachers showed how to work with children in outdoor and indoor spaces as well as in and on pavement.
Tim Gill, keynote speaker, has offered a global perspective on child-friendly cities while Pia Williams and Sonia Sheridan concretely focused on the future of preschools.
The BRIC project will continue to develop in different ways and a comprehensive book is going to published, in order to spread and share the good practices experimented by the preschool teachers and by the children.
See the BRIC web site.
