Projects

PINA’s focus areas are early childhood cognition, education and development, and educational interaction. Here you can find information on our current and completed research projects.

EDIT – Participation In everyday life At The Day Care Centre

A cooperative practice research programme by FH Potsdam and the University of Potsdam on quality development in early education.

In sub-project 1, linguistic indications of participatory interaction formats are investigated, especially concerning their effects on the development of children from disadvantaged families or with non-German family languages.

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BiKA –  Participation In everyday life At The Day Care Centre

BiKA is a joint research project of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the Research and Development Institute PädQUIS®, affiliated institute of the ASH Berlin and cooperating institute of the University of Graz.

The study was developed jointly and is carried out under joint responsibility. It is funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

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EQUIP – Quality And Interaction In Everyday Pedagogy

A cooperative practice research programme by FH Potsdam and the University of Potsdam on quality development in early education.

The project focuses on the convictions of educational professionals in day care centres in Berlin and Brandenburg about pedagogical interactions and how they can be changed. On the one hand, innovation intentions that come from outside, e.g. in the form of further training on pedagogical interaction, are…

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