Conditions and opportunities of workplace teaching/learning of teachers of preschool education institutions (the case of Lithuania)

The problem of learning in the workplace related to the activity of the Lithuanian educational (especially preschool) institutions today is the part of the culture of school activity that is still not sufficiently being actualized. A preschool education institution is the field of the research. Conducting the research on PTs’ experiences of teaching/ learning in the workplace, a qualitative research strategy was applied using the method of the group interview (i.e. focus group). Eighteen teachers of preschool education institutions participated in the research. The article presents the results of the empirical research that describe the conditions and opportunities of workplace teaching/learning of the teachers of a preschool educational institution and highlights the essential interferences to such teaching/learning. A qualitative method of content analysis was used for the analysis of the research data