Storytelling as intercultural competence in Kindergartens

Modern kindergartens need modern early intervention!

Today's kindergartens are places of encounter, where multilingualism is taken for granted and where a digitalized, globalized and diverse society comes together. But how do different understandings of time and cultures affect education in daycare centers and families? And how does education affect the perception, logic and assessment of different events?  Why are some offers not accepted by (educationally) disadvantaged families?  The training series "Storytelling as Intercultural competence in Language Kindergartens: brief parent conversations, early support through listening and telling" is dedicated to these questions and the question of how the scientific findings of developmental psychology, psychology and sociology on these issues can be integrated into everyday kindergarten life. What unusual but successful methods can daycare centers use for early learning and reading promotion, but also for meeting with parents?

Storytelling as an opportunity to reach families in their everyday reality

The overall goal of the project is to present storytelling as an intuitive holistic teaching method that can be used to reach and understand families in their everyday reality. The innovative teaching method is to be recognized and applied as a good alternative and addition to the existing cognitive methods in German educational institutions.

Learning and using storytelling as a narrative method and strategy

. Specifically, around 500 daycare center managers, educators and external specialist consultants are being trained to use the narrative method to reach families who are hardly reached by cognitive and analytical methods. The training will be conducted in cooperation with the technical adviser for "Language Education" and the quality manager of the Wiesbaden municipal council as part of the federal program " “Language Kindergartens: Because Language is the Key to the World”) in the state capital Wiesbaden. Parents will practice random and brief conversations, as well as the reading game "Anyone can tell a story"

inter 3 will accompany this innovation process and prepare the potentials and opportunities of the intuitive narrative method and storytelling strategy for further knowledge transfer activities.