The Evaluation of the Readiness of the child for the Early-school Education in the Context of the Indicators of the School Maturity – the Model of the Mature Child Ready for Education

Abstract

Abstract At a time of successively implemented educational reforms on the level of early-school education, presently concerning the youngest generation of Poles, there is an exquisitely topical question about the school maturity of the contemporary child. Hence, an attempt to turn attention to proper preparing the child for taking the compulsory education is a priority objective of the present article. The attention should be also turned to the essential role in this implementation process for the system and methodological education which is a basic education environment - a family. Authors, having exploited the expository method as fundamental form of the realization of the established purpose, made an attempt to depict not only a substantial role of the early-school education (by stressing the appropriate intellectual, emotional and social development of the child), but also to define school maturity indicators and determinants. It was also underlined, that the appropriate assessment of the child’s school maturity constituted the essential determinant of his proper functioning in the school environment. Additionally, an attempt was made to depict the model of the mature child ready for the early-school education through indicating factors which determine acceptable readiness. A return to the current issues of imposing compulsory education on 6-year-old children was also made.