ADAPTATION PECULIARITIES OF EARLY AGE CHILDREN TO A PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTION (A CASE STUDY OF KAUNAS CITY) Cover Image

ANKSTYVOJO AMŽIAUS VAIKŲ ADAPTACIJOS IKIMOKYKLINIO UGDYMO ĮSTAIGOJE YPATUMAI (KAUNO MIESTO ATVEJIS)
ADAPTATION PECULIARITIES OF EARLY AGE CHILDREN TO A PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTION (A CASE STUDY OF KAUNAS CITY)

Author(s): Raimonda Stoncelytė, Erika Masiliauskienė
Subject(s): Psychology, Preschool education, Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: early childhood; preschool education institution; adaptation to preschool education institutions;

Summary/Abstract: Adaptation of a child to a preschool education institution is a difficult and troublesome process especially after his experience with parental care. Mother care is advisable for early age children but, due circumstances, parents often decide to enroll a child in a preschool education institution. Parents should prepare for that in advance and later collaborate with teachers. It is not a secret that it is difficult to find time for quality and successful partnership. Nevertheless, both, parents and the education institution, need to understand that they have a common goal - continuous and successful child education. The research results revealed the essential peculiarities of successful adaptation of early age children to a preschool education institution: regular parent-teacher exchange of information about the child‘s well-being, adaptation actions to be used at home and in the education institution seeking to ensure the continuity of educational activities in institutional settings and at home, periodic teacher-parent meetings to discuss adaptation issues, trust between parents and teachers and mutual support.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2 (49)
  • Page Range: 29-35
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Lithuanian