Family context as a part of preschool institutional context in Montenegro

Abstract

Family and children's institution get the chance of becoming creators of pedagogical-educational environment in contemporary preschool context. Creating natural pedagogical continuity and unique fields of work between the two environments the child is focused is a unique need and assumption of malty aspect of a child's support. The aim of our research was observing thoughts and estimation of parents about the quality of realised cooperation with preschool teachers in Montenegrin preschool initiations. For this purpose, we have crated half-structural interview, which outcomes / dominant replies are going to be presented in the paper, condensing the given replies according to similarities into unique categories. We talked to parents within three focus groups (thirty parents altogether). Interviewed respondents/parents in focus groups, from our research, from three Montenegrin regions, mark dimensions of the actual pre-school context, finding advantages and real advancement in the domain of cooperation among all the actors in the unique 'preschool area', as well as weaker points, i.e. opportunities for development and creating new, efficient and pregnant ways of mutual support for the benefits of children. Our respondents point out: work of preschool teachers, which are of a better quality and efficiency, partially systematically taken pedagogical-educational process and/ or inadequate pedagogical-educational approach and insufficient didactically precise sequence of activities in the kindergarten. Individual contacts and general parents' meetings prevail as forms of cooperation. Parents / respondents are partially informed and involved into the programme activities, and as the reason of insufficiently efficient cooperation, they point out a large number of children in the groups, particularly in the central region. For improving quality of work in the preschool institution, parents suggest diversification of the programmed contents and active family participation in the kindergarten activities.