PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - HRDLIČKOVÁ, Vlasta TI - APPLIANCE OF KEY COPETENCIES IN PRIMARY EDUCATION WITH A VIEW TO ELEMENTARY TEACHING AND NATURAL HISTORY DP - 2012 Jul 1 TA - Trends in education PG - 113--117 VI - 5 IP - 1 IS - 18058949 AB - From the beginning of the 21st century the Czech society is passing through great changes and the education system reflect them. The necessity and effort to modernization of the Czech education system are reflecting in the National Programme of Education Development in the Czech Republic and in the other documents (Framework Education Programme for Basic Education, Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education etc). All the documents make an effort at modernization of the Czech education system, it should correspondents to contemporary requirements and be comparable with the develop countries in the world. One of the most important category are key competencies including complex of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values which are necessary for personnel development of each human being ad for its use in personal life. Natural history subjects in primary education (mainly elementary teaching and natural history etc.) offer in full scale possibilities to fulfil key competencies in conditions of actual education reform.