Development of Emotional Competencies of Preschool Children

The bachelor thesis entitled The Development of Emotional Competences in Pre-School Children focuses on the development of emotional competences by pre-school education teachers working with children from three to six years of age. The thesis consists of a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part contains three main chapters. The first chapter deals with the concept of emotional competence, the second chapter pays attention to the characteristics of pre-school children with respect to their emotional and social development, and the third chapter summarizes knowledge concerning the possibilities of the development of emotional competences in children attending nursery schools. The practical part is focused on three-year-old children. It contains a programme to develop their emotional competences and describes selected topics of activities aimed at learning about individual emotions within the time period of five months. These activities can be used by nursery school teachers in the education of pre-school children to develop these children's emotional competences