Volume/Issue :

Article type :

Case study

Page No :

141-150

Abstract :

The concept of a Good School creates preconditions for raising the level of quality of the performance of the country’s schools implementing general curricula, for showing the activity direction for schools and for enabling them to act. In order to ensure the quality of pre-school education, self-evaluation of the performance of pre-school education institutions, which promotes reflection on the activities of the staff of pre-school educational institutions and the possibilities for changes in quality, acquires increasing importance. Following the position that self-evaluation of the quality of institutional activities is significantly affected by community agreements on the quality of education and its characteristics, the qualitative research (case study), aiming to find out which aspects of the Good School and features characterizing them are characteristic to a concrete pre-school education institution, was conducted. The study involved various interest groups (parents, children, pedagogues). It was identified that the characteristic features of a good nursery school had included the aspects of the educational environment, life in the school and staff, which enabled to assume that the properly selected educational environment and professional, qualified pedagogues influenced children’s quality participation in the life of the educational institution. Besides, the research results can be the basis for improvement of the educational practice in a particular institution, separately analysing those aspects of the good school (nursery school) and features describing them which received less attention of investigated persons and providing guidelines for further studies on the quality of education.

Keywords :

good school, aspects of the good school, pre-school education institution, self-evaluation of the quality of school performance, quality of education

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Cite as :

Ponelienė, R., & Dargienė, D. (2017). Geros mokyklos koncepcijos įgyvendinimas ikimokyklinio ugdymo įstaigoje: lopšelio-darželio „Trys nykštukai“ atvejis [Implementation of the concept of a good school in the pre-school education institution: The case of the nursery school “Trys nykstukai”]. Švietimas: politika, vadyba, kokybė / Education Policy, Management and Quality, 9(3), 141-150. https://doi.org/10.48127/spvk-epmq/17.9.141