XPP07 Preschool didactics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2026
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Bc. Šárka Anderlová (lecturer)
Mgr. Barbora Čekalová (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Najvarová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Anna Pospíchalová (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Zora Syslová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zora Syslová, Ph.D.
Department of Pre-primary and Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Olga Bubnová
Supplier department: Department of Pre-primary and Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
XPP03
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge about the course and the specifics of children's cognition of the world and learning, to acquire a theoretical overview of basic didactic categories and to acquire the basic skills of individual child knowledge management. The student will learn about the meaning of the game and its specifics in pre-school education, game theories, categorization of games and toy types. They learn about the influence of play on child development.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to: to define the specifics of teaching preschool child; understand the content of education; to define teaching method and to specify the criteria for didactically effective method, to acquire the classification of concrete methods; to classify educational instruments and principles; to describe the organizational forms of pre-school education and its importance in the pre-school age   (application of points of general didactics); to use games as an educational form in the kindergarten as fulfillment of educational content with   regard to the specifics of pre-school child development; to explain the theory of games (through different authors points of views); assess the progress of children;
Key topics
1. Didactic categories. 2. Epistemology. 3. Approaches to education (transmissive and constructivist approaches), learning model E-U-R. 4. Ways of learning. 5. Objectives of current preschool education. 6. Coherence of goals and content of education. 7. Individualization of education. 8. Organization of education. 9. Organizational forms. 10. Educational methods, activation of children. 11. Educational environment. 12. Evaluation of educational results.
Study resources and literature
    required literature
  • SYSLOVÁ, Zora; Radmila BURKOVIČOVÁ; Jana KROPÁČKOVÁ; Kateřina ŠILHÁNOVÁ and Lucie ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ. Didaktika mateřské školy (Kindergarten Methodology). Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019, 252 pp. 373.2/.3 - Předškolní a primární výchova a vzdělávání [22]. ISBN 978-80-7598-276-6. info
  • ŠMELOVÁ, Eva and Michaela PRÁŠILOVÁ. Didaktika předškolního vzdělávání. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2018, 229 stran. ISBN 9788026213024. URL info
  • KREJČOVÁ, Věra; Jana KARGEROVÁ and Zora SYSLOVÁ. Individualizace v mateřské škole (Individualization in kindergarten). První. Praha: Portál, 2015, 182 pp. ISBN 978-80-262-0812-9. info
  • SMOLÍKOVÁ, Kateřina. Rámcový vzdělávací program pro předškolní vzdělávání. Praha: Výzkumný ústav pedagogický v Praze, 2004, 48 s. ISBN 8087000005. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
lectures, seminars.
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
seminar work, discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/ped/podzim2026/XPP07/index_kombi.qwarp
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2024, Autumn 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2026, recent)
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