In our paper, we present the parental involvement approach in the Hungarian ECEC context focusing the latest literature review. 2018) A family-friendly approach is becoming more dominant in the practice. The families' inclusion into the kindergarten education happens more and more. Taking the families' needs into consideration has become stronger lately. With a strong emphasis on the connection between the retrospective and the prospective, we are inviting conference participants to share collective or personal memories to bring the past into the present and connect it to the future to examine the changing images of the child and childhood, social policy and its connection with pedagogies and practice. What are the past and present images of childhood, early childhood pedagogy, practice and curricula that could be described as particular in post-socialist countries?Īre there pedagogical approaches from the socialist past that have legacies today and define pedagogy and practice in Eastern Europe? 2018).ĭuring the conference, we are keen to explore how pedagogical practice may have changed with pluralistic pedagogical ideas flooding into Eastern-Europe after the Iron Curtain has been demolished (Varga Nagy et al. However, they manifest adapting to local, community, economic, historical and cultural particularities in the same way as earlier pedagogy and practice matched local differences (Silova et al. Today, both child-centred pedagogy and practice, and children’s rights are more central in early childhood education and care around the world.

It was also a commonality that children were disregarded as social actors on their own merit (Millei 2011). On the one side, socialist, and on the other, capitalist ideology shaped approaches to childhood, education and care. Adult-centred pedagogy and practice, however, were common on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Pedagogy and practice in the countries of the former socialist bloc was often analysed in ‘Western’ literature as conformist, overly ideologically driven and uniform across the region. The conference in Hungary focuses on the Eastern European characteristics of early childhood pedagogies and practice.

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