Jana Grava’s Doctoral Thesis in science of Pedagogy, sub-branch – Preschool Pedagogy, “Implementation of a child-centred pedagogical approach for self-realization of children in preschool” is developed at Liepaja University, Institute of Educational Sciences under the supervision of Dr.paed, Prof. Alīdas Samuseviča during the period of September 2010 – January 2018. The aim of the Thesis: to develop a theoretically grounded model for implementing a child-centred pedagogical approach for self-realization of children in preschool, describing child-centred pedagogical activity of teachers. In Chapter 1 the theoretical analysis of personality self-realization and the conceptual analysis of self-realization are presented. The components of forming self-realization of pre-school children are defined describing the factors influencing the child's self-realization. As the result of theoretical analysis, the pedagogical principles and means are developed for self-realization of children in the preschool educational environment. Chapter 2 provides the description of implementation of the child-centred pedagogical approach, determining the conditions for meaningful interaction between the teacher and the children in the preschool environment for the self-realization of children. A model of pedagogical activity is developed based on constructivist knowledge for self-realization of children in the pedagogical process. The analysis of the good practice examples of a child-centred pedagogical approach is also presented. The preconditions for teacher’s pedagogical activity for implementing the child-centred pedagogical approach in preschool educational institution are identified and described. The Chapter 3 describes the empirical research results of implementation of a child-centred pedagogical approach for self-realization of children in preschool. Based on the analysis of theory and empirical research results, a model for implementing a child-centred pedagogical approach for self-realization of children in preschool has been developed and approbated, and the implementation principles, forms, methods and conditions have been proposed. In the final part of Doctoral Thesis the conclusions are defined and the thesis proposed for defence revealing the scientific and practical novelty of this work.