Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec Maja Hmelak
Koper 2017
in Kindergarten
With an Emphasis on Different Types of Education
Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec Maja Hmelak
Koper 2017
Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec Maja Hmelak
The Importance of Education in Kindergarten:
With an Emphasis on Different Types of Education Scientific Monograph
Series: Knjižnica Ludus, 7 (ISSN 2536-1937) Series Editor: Sonja Starc
Reviewers: Emina Kopas - Vukašinović, Eva Klemenčič Cover: Tina Cotič
Design: Tilen Žbona
Typesetting: Jonatan Vinkler
Published by: Založba Univerze na Primorskem / University of Primorska Press Titov trg 4, SI-6000 Koper
Editor-in-Chief: Jonatan Vinkler Managing Editor: Alen Ježovnik Koper 2017
ISBN 978-961-7023-63-3 Print-run: 300 copies
© 2017 Založba Univerze na Primorskem / University of Primorska Press Book was financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (2017)
CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji
Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 373.2
LEPIČNIK-Vodopivec, Jurka
The importance of education in kindergarten : with an emphasis on different types of education : [scientific monograph] / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec, Maja Hmelak. - Koper : Založba Univerze na Primorskem = University of Primorska Press, 2017. - (Knjižnica Ludus, ISSN 2536-1937
; 7)
ISBN 978-961-7023-63-3 1. Hmelak, Maja, 1982- 293071616
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DEFINITION OF EDUCATION IN KINDERGARTENS 7
Some aspect of education in Slovenia 7
Education in Slovenia 14
Preschool education in kindergartens 17
Modern teaching and learning in kindergarten 22 The importance of team work in kindergartens 26
Hidden curriculum in the kindergarten 34
Quality and self-evaluation in education 37
MEDIA EDUCATION IN KINDERGARTEN 45
The importance of media education and literacy in kindergartens 45 The meaning of print media in preschool 50 The problem of advertising and consumerism in preschool 54 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT 63
Some aspects of environmental education in kindergarten 63 Education for sustainable development in kindergarten 67 Analysis of the curriculum for kindergartens through the prism
of environmental education and education for sustainable development 69
INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN PRESCHOOL 73
Some aspects of multicultural and intercultural education in preschool 73 The importance of developing competences for active citizenship
in preschool 80
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theImportaNceofeducatIoNINkINdergarteN
LITERATURE 85
INDEX 97
REVIEWS 101