Sharing Kindergarten Space with Parents. Building Parents’ Commitment

Abstract

For a modern man, space and place are significant components of life. Individual’s life-cycle is filled with numerous events and spaces which have different quality, which are limited, indivisible, changeable and can be assessed positively or negatively. Experiencing these spaces is connected to needs and behaviours of individuals as well as social groups. Being born in a family, a person experiences being in this place. As an adult, this person forms another family – a place and space to develop his or her offspring and to develop individually. In the following stages of life, together with family members, new places are formed. One of them is kindergarten and later – school. This is a place, which is not only identified in category of physical spaces but it is a coach of parents’ action. However, parental commitment is not always on high level. That is why, in the course of scientific research, the author tried to answer the following question: What is the way of building parental community in kindergarten, based on separating a special place for parents in kindergarten space?