Early Excellence Center
An Early Excellence Center (EEC) is an institution that combines the characteristics of a day care center with health care , parenting training and social integration. Such facilities were created in Great Britain from 1997 under the Sure Start program to offer integrated child and family care services. The aim of the program is to improve the school performance of children who grow up in underprivileged circumstances.
The founders were based on the US head-start programs . It was assumed there that every child has the potential to achieve excellent results if they are properly encouraged at an early age. The biggest difference to Head Start is that the parents are included in an EEC. The evaluation of various Head-Start programs showed that the more their parents worked, the more children benefited from the programs. With the involvement of parents, other programs such as HIPPY have also had positive experiences. In Germany, the first Early Excellence Center was founded in 2000 in the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus in Berlin .
Web links
- Early Excellence Center in Berlin
- German report on Sure Start (PDF file; 49 kB)
- EEC in the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ J. Currie, D. Thomas: Does Head Start Make a Difference? In: American Economic Review. 85, 1995, pp. 341-364.
- ↑ Lee et al .: Are Head Start Effects Sustained? A Longitudinal Follow-Up Comparison of Disadvantaged Children Attending Head Start, No Preschool, and Other Preschool Programs. In: Child Development. Vol. 61, No. 2, Special Issue on Minority Children, Apr 1990, pp. 495-507.
- ^ EEC in the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus
- ↑ Margy Whalley: Parents as Experts on Their Children. Dohrmann Verlag, Berlin 2008.
- ^ Early Excellence: The positive view of children, parents and educators, Dohrmann Verlag, Berlin 2007.
- ↑ Christine Karkow, Barbara Kühnel: The Berlin Model - Quality Criteria in the Early Excellence Approach. Dohrmann Verlag, Berlin 2008.