The issue of resilience in the context of small age children education

The training of early age children is currently recognised as an especially important intervention for a person's normal existential course. The adults (parents and teaching staff) involved in the shaping of minors' personality hold a set of attributes with stakes for both present and future. The current study is aimed at pointing out which are the conditions within the institution of preschool education that can expose children to delicate/difficult/risk situations that could induce mental discomfort or stress, as well as at highlighting a number of aspects of specialised paideic intervention with clear potential to determine the occurrence and development of a natural process of resilience in the child confronted with such circumstances. The study focuses on two complementary aspects: the manner in which kindergartens face the issues of trauma and children's resilience, and the structural characteristics of the educational activity in kindergartens that favour the process of resilience among minors (the specific features of the education's general purposes during the first years in one's life - global development/socio-emotional development, the use of kindergarten space in relation to children's needs, the primary group of pre-school children, the kindergarten teacher as a significant person in the child's life).