Basic knowledge child education: Aspects of a Theory, Practice and Fields of Action in the Context of Educational and Family Science

Findings of a modern child education in the study focus on the child as a subject of society, as an actor. Children need to acquire social, motor, cognitive and affective skills and abilities. They open up the environment and change it with their desires, interests and needs. Many children today can take advantage of a welfare society, but also feel the disadvantages of a modern way of life for the forms of industrialization, urbanization, economization and individualization in everyday life. There are strains already in childhood. It is about the acquisition of basic trust, the relationship to parents, the attitude to one's own body, the development of cognitive concepts and one's own thinking, a development of conscience and morals as well as to peers.