Child combination
A children's combination , abbreviated to KiKo , was a pension facility in the GDR . It comprised two day care centers for children: a day nursery for children up to three years of age and a kindergarten for children from three to seven years of age. A KiKo was open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
From 1966 day nurseries were increasingly set up in conjunction with kindergartens. The building types were standardized. The term child combination had been widespread in the GDR since the early 1970s, and the abbreviation KiKo was also used in official publications.
Today, some of the buildings in which children's combinations were housed are used for other purposes. Since 1994, the Documentation Center for Everyday Culture of the GDR has been housed in Eisenhüttenstadt in a former children's combination, which was renovated in 1999 to make it suitable for historical monuments.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sabina Schroeter: The language of the GDR as reflected in its literature. Studies on GDR-typical vocabulary. Berlin, New York 1994, p. 31
- ^ Helmut Köhler: Schools and universities in the German Democratic Republic 1949–1989. Göttingen 2008, p. 52
- ^ Marina Döring: Berlin and its buildings. Volume 7B (social buildings), Berlin 2003, p. 123 f.
- ↑ Language maintenance. Volume 32, 1983, p. 122
- ↑ Website, accessed November 30, 2012