Pre-school Education Assistance and Services In Lithuania

Discussions regarding accessibility of high quality pre-school education services have become more and more intensive all over the world because attempts are made to have an effect on holistic children development, to eliminate gaps in children’s achievements, to equalize possibilities of town and country children to receive education services, which would ensure  the development of their cognitive, social, communicative, emotional, artistic and  physical powers as well as would guarantee success at school (Bertram, T., Pascal, C., 2002; Montie, J.E., Xiang, Z., Schweinhart, L.J., 2008; Brauner, J., Gordic, B., Zigler, E., 2004; Kaufmann F.X., 2006).

Currently in Lithuania various institutions and organisations (family centres, institutions of additional education institutions, non-governmental organisations and others) provide educational support and services to families from various social groups growing pre-school children.

 Though the variety of services provided to children from families of various social groups is rather wide, the services are not equally topical and accessible to everybody especially in rural areas.

The goal of the research: to identify educational support and services provided to children from families of various social groups.

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