The Educational Competence in Professional Developement Programmes for Workers with Children and Youth

This paper deals with the educational competence of a voluntary worker with children and youth in the domain of free time. It briefly describes problems of free time, contemporary education in the free time and further education of these workers. It also deals with the competences on the general level and their use in the educational process. It presents the suggested structure of the competences of the worker and in greater detail it develops the educational competence. It shows the results of research which dealt with the analysis and comparisons of selected structures of the educational competence. On the basis of theoretical knowledge and facts established by this research it consequently identifies main content categories of the educational competences.