Concept of safety, responsibility and group feeling:

In our everyday we constantly are included in different groups. With work, family, football team, friends, travel companions, kindergarten etc., we are a part of a group. According to pedagogic theory (see resources), it is crucial to the personal and social development of a child’s identity to activate the group feeling. The group feeling gets stimulated for example by committing to and taking responsibility of other human beings, which is a requirement in Danish daycare regulations.

According to the pedagogue we talked to, it can be stressful to be responsible of the safety of a big group. There exist several tools for surveillance of children’s locations, but pedagogically it undermines the child’s development of responsibility and trust, and the devices demand conscious operations.   

On this background we thought it would be interesting to examine further the possibilities of working with group feeling, having sense of each other’s presence, limits for moving away from the group and safety in emergency situations, in a pedagogically inclusive way.  

The first sketches of the idea: