The influence of compulsory pre-school education on the work of pedagogical workers in selected kindergartens

The bachelor thesis deals with problematics of the introduction of compulsory preschool education, its benefits and changes in areas of administration and educational process. The aim of this work is to find out how the legislative change, effective from the calendar year 2017, relating to the introduction of compulsory of preschool education, affected events in individual areas of pedagogical staff, more specifically administrative and managerial work of principals and educational and administrative work of teachers in two selected kindergartens in the largest Central Bohemian city of Kladno. For the purpose of fulfilling this goal, a research case study is chosen, in which data were obtained through interviews with school principals, qualitative questionnaires addressed to teachers and analysis of internal and curricular documents affected by the legislative change. The first main chapter of the theoretical part is devoted to the upbringing and education of preschool children and child development from the perspective of developmental psychology, which is linked to preschool education of children in the institution - this chapter deals with educational plans, distance education in kindergarten, is included in the legislative framework and information about curricular and internal documents of the..