Prague parent-child program
The P rager E ltern- Ki nd- P rogramm (PEKiP) is a concept for group work with parents and their children in the first year of life, which is intended to support the process of finding each other within a toddler group and to encourage the babies to be given early support and to share experiences between the Aims parents.
history
Based on his research on the accompaniment of infants in home and out-of-home care, the Prague psychologist Jaroslav Koch developed movement and play suggestions for babies in the 1970s. Building on this, the psychologist Christa Ruppelt and the social scientist Hans Ruppelt designed the socio-educational group program for young parents . Since 1978 the German Professional Association for Social Work has been offering advanced training for pedagogical specialists based on the PEKiP concept. In 1988 the association PEKiP e. V., who has been conducting PEKiP training courses since then and has registered a logotype / word mark that is used by many providers.
covers
The PEKiP concept is linked to the group pedagogical guidelines of topic-centered interaction and to the concept of parental sensitivity, borrowed from attachment theory . The social group work with the dynamic processes inherent in every social group serves as the basis.
method
In the group work, the focus is on PEKiP games , movement and sensory stimuli for parents and children. Parents and children play together across generations. The group leader accompanies the exchange and learning among the participants. In conducting the interview, she addresses the sensitivities, intentions and experiences of the participants. It informs parents about the early childhood development of their child and is a model for parents and children to play together.
The group leader makes sure, through careful conversation, that parents do not react to differences between babies of the same age with judgment, concern or competition, but rather learn to appreciate the diversity of developments as special features of the children. At the same time, the course leader makes a contribution to the child's health by advising parents in the event of physical or behavioral abnormalities to make the pediatrician aware of this.
Typically the babies in PEKiP meetings are completely naked. Exceptions for practical reasons are possible; a mother who wants to breastfeed her baby will usually put a diaper on him beforehand. The room is warmed up so that the babies do not cool down.
Professional training
The PEKiP association offers socio-educational professionals to lead a PEKiP group according to their method, standards and the environment. To this end, the participants develop theory, practice, methodology and didactics and are supervised by PEKiP trainers during their first group leadership .
criticism
Critics rank PEKiP in the area of the so-called early intervention madness, around which a private education market has established itself based on the USA. It is critically discussed that participation in early intervention programs such as PEKiP would bring social competition forward and that the toddler would be flooded with too many stimuli when participating in several support programs.
literature
- Jaroslav Koch: Psychology a pedagogika dítĕte . Prague, 1960, with Zdeněk Matějček
- Total baby development . New York 1978. ISBN 0-671-22408-5 . Original Czech title: Výchova kojence v rodině . Edition London 1982 under the title: Superbaby
- Dieter Höltershinken, Gertrud Scherer: PEKiP The Prague Parent-Child Program, Theoretical Basics: Origin and Development . Dortmund contributions to pedagogy, Bochum / Freiburg 2011 (4th, extended edition). ISBN 978-3-89733-221-8
- Anne Pulkkinen: PEKiP: Supporting babies through play . Gräfe and Unzer 1999. ISBN 3-7742-7418-5
- Monika Thiel: Baby fun with PEKiP games . Urania-Verlag 2002, 128 pages. ISBN 3-332-01308-4
- Michael K. Meyerhoff: A Parents' Guide to Avoiding the Superbaby Syndrome . William Gladden Foundation, December 1992, in English. ISBN 1-56456-136-4
- Liesel Polinski: PEKiP: Play and exercise with babies . rororo 1993/2001. ISBN 3-499-60972-X
- with Katrin Krüger: The PEKiP DVD . WVG Medien GmbH 2008. ISBN 978-3-89855-753-5
Web links
- The Prague parent-child program PEKiP , Liesel Polinski and Erika Roch in the family handbook of the State Institute for Early Childhood Education
- PEKiP in Germany
- PEKiP in Austria
- PEKiP in Switzerland
- www.pekip-polinski.de
- Critical article , Deutschlandradio