KEY SOCIAL COMPETENCES OF CHILDREN DURING THE TRANSITION TO SCHOOL LIFE

Abstract

The article presents the key social competences as an essential resource for the topical transition of a child from the kindergarten to the school life. Mastering the key social competencies allows each child at the age between 6 and 7 to succeed in adapting to the new conditions of activity and communication in the school class and in updating their mastered skills for active participation in the educational process. The mastered key social competencies allow the child to adopt the new environment and without any difficulty to express their autonomy and initiative when solving any learning tasks. The key social competences issue is being developed on the basis of the European directives: the Europe 2020 Strategy of the European Union (EU) for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth proposed by the European Commission (EC) in March 2010 and endorsed by the Heads of State and Government of the EU countries in June 2010. In today's social reality, the key competencies are established as a core value, purpose and outcome of the education. In the system of the pre-school education the key social competences are learned through the participation of children in various deliberate or unintended activities. What is of great importance is the meaning in this sense of the process of becoming well acquainted with the surrounding world, the purposes and tasks that are aimed both at perception and understanding of the phenomena of the social system, as well as at their interpretation in order to acquire practical social skills, important for the orientation in the new school environment.