The provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child oblige to respect and implement the rights of the child, and to respond respectively while organizing education. In order to stop violation of the rights of the child it is necessary to organize law education and the easiest way to do this is at school. One aspect of implementation of the rights of the child is related to a possibility of a child to use and to protect actively the rights himself/herself; therefore, law education becomes a means of providing a child with such possibility. This article aims to reveal the preconditions for implementation of children’s rights at school. i.e. to analyse the General Programmes and Education Standards and to identify possibilities for integration of children’s rights into the content of education.

In two following decades of Independence changing the education of Lithuania great attention was paid to the content of education, to be more precise, modern and general programs of examinations and national textbooks of teaching subjects were made. During such period of time in Lithuania there are made many textbooks of alternative mathematics for different forms. For instance, sixth textbooks are suggested for the fifth form now. Criteria, which are used by teachers in order to evaluate alternatives, are not emphasized, that is why the evaluational analysis of textbooks of mathematics should be made. The teachers of the fifth forms and the students of the fourth and the fifth forms were questioned to find out, how the content and pedagogical and didactical features of different textbooks are evaluated by teachers. What is more, attention was paid to pupils’ choose of the mathematics’ textbook for the fifth form. The questionnaire revealed that students evaluate textbooks according to variety of visual material. Also the material is more acceptable which is based on pupils’ practical life, context and practical criteria such as weight, size, form of the textbook, type of the cover, illustrations and quality. Students’ questionnaire showed that textbooks would be more attractive, more convenient to carry and the weight of bags would be standard if the practical criterion of evaluation was highlighted during the investigation. Teachers’ data analysis of the questionnaire makes recommendations how to evaluate a textbook. Looking at the results of investigation, we can recommend evaluating textbooks according to pedagogical, psychological and ergonomical criterion. Moreover, choosing a textbook students point of view should be considerate.

The article reviews the tendencies of change in pre-school and pre-primary education content over the last decade, that is, since the beginning of pre-school education reform in 1988. Conceptions of (self)-education content, theoretical principles that influenced the change in pre-school and pre-primary education content are analysed. the author reviews the key ideas of national level programmes and makes an attempt to highlight the models of education content and to provide their characteristics. Factors and processes of systemic change in content are discussed employing methods of theoretical analysis, comparison and generalisation.