ASPECTS OF NATURALISTICAL TRAINING REFLECTED IN THE SYSTEM OF FORMAL EDUCATION

Pre-school institution is the first stage of formal education system in the Republic of Lithuania. Each institution creates its own particular education system, coordinates methods, raises tasks corresponding to the requirements of children, family, closest natural environment and society. The report provides a naturalistical training model reflecting the nature study in various systems of education and in formation of cultural values. The report also underlines the fragment of training contents reflecting the particularity of institution's programme and the integrity of naturalistical training. According to the analysed attitude of values the natural world is conceived as undivided and integral. Cultural values are engrained in children's senses on the basis of naturalistical training. This capacitates children to become mature personalities, thus being able to apply acquired knowledge and competences, to solve problems of every-day life, to cultivate self-confidence, to feel responsibility and to be able to adjust to the changeable environment.