Resumen de Current trends in the emotional and social aspects of school readiness research
School readiness issues have been a focus of educators for years.The number of approaches, tendencies and dimensions of school readiness indicates how comprehensive and complex this topic is. The analysis of contemporary research directions based on the papers available in academic databases allows them to be arranged into a few categories. They are all presented in the article with the aim of obtaining the current perspective of the problem, especially in the social and emotional context. Some authors try to determine the list of detailed aspects of emotional and social skills important to begin school education. The other approach presents the new school readiness tools. There is also a line that evaluates the early emotional support effect on school readiness. The next trend is formed by statistical meta-analyses of the correlation between the age of the school start and pupil achievements. The two new directions are related to the school readiness profiles and the idea of including executive functions into school readiness assessment as an important aspect of pupils' emotional and social achievements. The results coming from those six directions help educators to increase early education care.
