Publication details
The experience of implementation of primary prevention of risk behaviour in nursery schools
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | ICERI2021 Proceedings |
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| Web | https://library.iated.org/view/CIBAKOVA2021EXP |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2021.1160 |
| Keywords | Preventive measures; risk behaviour; preschool age; qualitative research |
| Description | The paper is devoted to the issue of preventive measures and primary prevention of risk behaviour in preschool children. We consider the issue to be very topical and important because already in the period of preschool age in institutionalized education it is necessary to start shaping the attitudes and competences of children in this area. The paper offers an overview of the risk forms that teachers encounter in the performance of their profession in nursery schools, the methodological support they are aware of and use as well as the preventive measures they apply in the context of primary prevention of risk behaviour. In the first part of the paper, we address the issue of risk behaviour as well as the importance of adequate measures and primary prevention in nursery schools. We also present the information on how the issue of preventive measures is enshrined in the Framework Education Programme for Preschool Education in the Czech Republic. The second part of the paper is devoted to research, which is based on a qualitative methodology. The main goal of the research was to find out what preventive measures teachers in nursery schools used as part of primary prevention of children’s risk behaviour. Other goals were to find out what experience teachers had, what methods, strategies and methodologies they used in the implementation of primary prevention of risk behaviour as well as the level of cooperation between the family and the nursery school or other institutions when this phenomenon occurs. The research sample consisted of nursery school teachers who were recruited by deliberate selection. Respondents participating in the research had experience with the implementation of preventive measures aimed at risk behaviour in nursery schools and their teaching experience was at least three years. The main research method was a structured interview. Each interview was subjected to subsequent coding and qualitative interpretation of the results obtained. |