Research on children qualitative way to recognise children's pre-concepts of social world

Abstract

The aim of the article is to introduce research results from research of today's children. Research was done in years 2016-2017. The aim of the research is to examine the concepts and preconceptions of 5-7 years old children within their social space and to compare them with adults' views on current children and their concepts. The research sample is 284 respondents - children, preschool teachers, primary school teachers and parents. In research is used combined (qualitative-quantitative) research strategy. The methods used are semi-structured interviews with children and questionnaire for adults. The most important research finding is that in many areas the views of adults on children and their world have not been identified with children's answers. Our research question was: How current children perceive and experience their social space in comparison to adults opinions about them.