Children participating in the project Happy winter celebration in preschool

In this degree paper I presented course of planning, executing and evaluating the project Happy winter celebration, which had been carried out at preschool by the 3rd year students of preschool education at the University of Ljubljana, in 2015/16. The main goals of the project were planning and executing activities in order with problem-solving process, the most important aspect of the paper being the child-participation in the project and evaluating the main differences between various analyses (my own analysis of the executed activities, analysis of the performing students, the evaluation of preschool teacher). The most important part of the project was participation of children, which the students wanted to incorporate in every activity. They were asking children a lot of questions concerning problems, which they were solving during those learning activities. As N. Turnšek (2004) mentioned, the main purpose of problem-solving process is that children solve problems on their own or with the support of an adult. The main conclusions of the degree paper are that child-participation in the project was achieved, however the possibilities were not fully realised. The students had been planning activities which did not always include the participation of children and the reason lies in the planning itself; the number of goals anticipating participation was included in only one third of all the goals in students’ planning papers. While comparing the analyses I discovered that they do not differ much, still the main difference is in the contents of observation