Darželio grupės homogeniškumo įtaka priešmokyklinio amžiaus vaikų socialiniam subrendimui mokyklai

Abstract

There is no unified scientific opinion which group is better for child’s developing, mixed age or same age. For this reason, the research of child’s maturity in kindergarten group seeking for the social influence to school was made. The study was carried out in 7 Kaunas kindergartens, 2 of them are of the same age group, and 5 are of mixed age school groups. Research results showed that children attending same age group are more socially mature to school then children who attend mixed groups. One more tendency was noticed that girls are more socially mature than boys. The assessment of homogeneity kindergarten influence preschool children's social maturation showed that mixed groups of children attending is significantly less mature and ready to go to school than one age group attending groups of children in all aspects of social maturity.