Knowledge, kompetences, children, pre-school.

One of the key features of the contemporary knowledge society is the emphasis on the importance of individual knowledge acquisition. The Czech educational programmes, including the Framework Educational Programme for Pre-school Education, strongly emphasise that both the controlled education and spontaneous ?learning? of children at pre-school institutions should help the children gain knowledge, skills and experience in the form of applicable outputs, i.e. competences. The educational offer observes the integrated nature of the mastery of the above-mentioned components of competences.