Volume/Issue :

Article type :

Editorial

Page No :

54-57

Abstract :

Journal’s introductory article deals with preschool and pre-primary education actualities. At the end of November, the President of Lithuania signed Education law amendments. From the year 2023, the conditions for the social risk families bringing up preschool age children (5-6 years) should get better, because municipalities are obliged to ensure pre-primary education for all children. There were a lot of discussions up to that. Municipality and parents’ forum and other organisation representatives expressed worries. Municipalities state lacking kindergartens, preschool and pre-primary education teachers, educational environments are not arranged for such age children, etc. Parent representatives fear if their children are not seated in a school desk as first formers, and learn from textbooks, and so on. This problem is essentially solved; 800 are planned to be requalified, among them preschool and pre-primary education teachers. The project “Innovations in the kindergarten” closing next year should significantly contribute to education content creation, and so on. Changes in preschool and pre-primary education are grounded on neuroscience research and recommendations as well.

Keywords :

preschool education, pre-primary education, education quality

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Cite as :

Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė, R. (2020). Ikimokyklinio ir priešmokyklinio ugdymo pokyčiai: ir nerimas, ir džiaugsmas [Preschool and pre-primary education changes: Both joy and worry]. Švietimas: politika, vadyba, kokybė / Education Policy, Management and Quality, 12(2), 54-57. https://doi.org/10.48127/spvk-epmq/20.12.54