The school counselling services represent a professional support to all involved in the early childhood education as they are able to deal with issues and dilemmas in the pedagogical, psychological and social field, thus helping children, kindergarten professionals, management and parents to establish and maintain the conditions for achieving the fundamental goal of education and training, namely the optimal development of each child. In the thesis, we studied the role of the counselling service in the kindergarten, its tasks and the cooperation of the counsellor with educators and assistant educators from a theoretical and empirical point of view. We first presented some aspect of early childhood education, notably we defined the concept of education, child developments and early childhood education which takes place in kindergartens. We further outlined the legal and expert framework of early childhood education. In the central part of the thesis we presented the concept of school counselling services in kindergarten, the fundamental points of counselling, activities, areas of work and characteristics of mutual cooperation between counselling services and professionals in kindergarten. We highlighted the characteristics, purpose, conditions and areas of cooperation as well as factors that influence cooperation. In the last chapter of the theoretical work, we presented the current research in the field of cooperation between counsellors and professionals of the educational institutions. The empirical part analysed the structure and content of school counselling services’ five-year work plans. Survey questionnaires aimed at counsellors in kindergarten, kindergarten teachers and their assistants allowed us to look into the tasks of counselling services in kindergartens and cooperation between counsellors and teachers in the kindergarten including what affects the cooperation. We found that the prevailing task is providing assistants, that the teachers have positive experiences as regards mutual cooperation, that the can identify obstacle, advantages and conditions of mutual cooperation and that it depends on respective activities.
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