THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS REGARDING STEAM EDUCATION AT PRESCHOOL AGE

This article supports and promotes the introduction of STEAM education in preschool education and its advantages. Modern education is not a renunciation of the valuable heritage of the past, but a restructuring of its relationship with the future, a 180 degree turn of its point of departure. STEAM education is a challenge of the modern, technological world. Unlike the classical lessons in the traditional system of education where the teacher teaches the students, STEAM is an active, applied and constructivist method of "learning by doing". The children, regardless of their age, should be encouraged to think deeply, so that they have the chance to become innovators and leaders who can solve the most pressing challenges facing our future. STEM and STEAM projects put the foundations of an openness to concepts that would normally come across a lot later and much more theoretical. Postmodern education is adapting day by day the needs of tomorrow's future adults, the key to success being knowing how to adapt and how to use what you have learned, for continuous change and development.