ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the theoretical background on home learning environments, parental sensitivity and cognitive stimulation as well as the design of the project Feinfuhlige Interaktionsgestaltung und Gestaltung von Lernumgebungen (FILU). The home learning environment is the result of the interaction between children and their parents. The arrangement of home learning environments as well as parental attitudes and behaviour are important for the educational careers of children. Corresponding behaviours are, for example, comforting and playful physical contact, warm smiles and eye contact, effective handling of conflicts, accepting and affirmative statements regarding the child or quick responses to the child's distress signals. The diagnostic and training sessions took place at the day-care centres and at the research institutes. Within the scope of the project FILU, an intervention study based on an experimental, univariate, pre-post design was carried out. The chapter concludes with first results and implications for further research.
