SRETEN ADŽIĆ ON EDUCATING preschool CHILDREN

: Regardless of how much the contemporary ideas on preschool children education have been determined by the factors of the development of children in the new environment, conditioned by the achievements of modern science and technology, it is irrefutable that the family, as the starting point of educational influences, remains the main factor of children’s education, followed by the preschool institution as the first step in the system of institutional education. Guided by the idea of a comprehensive children’s development, conditioned by the innate children’s potentials, as well as by their curiosity, Sreten Adžić approached education by searching for its theoretical assumptions, which he simultaneously implemented in teaching practice. The aim of this paper was to determine whether and to what extent Adžić’s ideas on educating young children, which he developed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, are present in contemporary preschool education programmes considering the roles of preschool teachers in Serbia. This aim was concretized through research tasks concerning various aspects of children’s development and the significance of the family in achieving education goals, which are assumed or determined by these aspects. The research was conducted by using the descriptive method and the procedure of content analysis. The results proved the contemporaneity of Adžić’s ideas on the comprehensive development of young children and the family as the first and the most significant factor of this development.Publishe