Pre-schoolˈs teacherˈs role in methodical treatment of the death problematics in kindergarten

The content of this degree paper concerns the subject of death, the role of an educator in dealing with it and the methods of dealing with it in kindergarten. The theoretical part defines the problems of dealing with death and describes how children react when dealing with it. We defined the stages of grief and showed how to help children dealing with loss. We showed the following when and how to introduce the subject of death to preschool children. We determined that an appropriate way to introduce the subject of death also through children’s stories and fairytales which unobtrusively show and define the subjects of loss, death, and grief. The goal of the degree paper is to perform a project in the kindergarten which deals with the motive and the subjects of the problem (death, dying, and grief) through picture book stories. By means of unstructured interviews, based on the sample of six children, we tried to establish whether the subjects such as death and grief can be explained or partially explained to children through picture book stories. By means of the questionnaire, based on the sample of thirty kindergarten teachers, we tried to determine if the subject of death is handled in the kindergartens and how they deal with it