GERMANY

After two visits to Italy and a study meeting in İstanbul, our fourth study visit was in Kinderhaus, in Maintal, Germany.


Having our focus points in mind, we started observing the six different groups that the children can attend in the Kinderhaus.

DRAMA GROUP

ART GROUP

RESEARCH GROUP

MUSIC GROUP


ROLE-PLAY GROUP

FOREST GROUP


EXTREME AUTONOMIES


The environment provided in the Kinderhaus, allows self explorations of materials for the children and stimulates different developmental domains like cognitive, social, emotional, language and mostly physical.


FREEDOM


The children have more freedom than many other children in other countries. We discourage our children to explore freely but we observed that children in Kinderhaus are highly encouraged. They are self-motivated because they are doing what they really want to do.
Only they are responsible for themselves. If they want to eat their breakfast, they eat it but if not, they don`t. If they feel like hot, they take off their jackets even when it’s freezing. The teachers don`t interfere. We loved it because in our country, based on our cultural background and the way we were raised, we are highly protective of our children. Unfortunately, we stop our children from being independent.

CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS


The children have opportunities to play with ideas in different situations and with a variety of resources, and they discover connections and come to new and better understandings and ways of doing things. They improve their critical thinking and problem solving skills .

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