Childrenʼs group as an alternative form of preschool care for children in the Czech Republic: An example from a particular region

Abstract

The authors of the study describe a relatively new service in the Czech Republic – childrenʼs daycare in childrenʼs groups. They describe the legislation connected to this service and its main features, they discuss its strongest and its weakest links. The authors present results that emerged from the pilot research, carried out in a particular region of the Czech Republic in three selected childrenʼs groups, all of them situated in the city of Zlín. Data was gathered from controlled interviews with providers of childrenʼs daycare in childrenʼs groups, and from the analysis of publicly available information about childrenʼs groups. The questions aim at obtaining information about both visions of particular providers and practical information about such service, its functioning and known limitations from the perspective of childrenʼs groupsʼ establishers. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.