Since the beginning od 19th century up until now, there have been a lot of changes in defining and choosing abilities that a professional education of an early and preschool educator should get and have. The aim of this thesis is to describe the changes that happened in Republic of Croatia education of early and preschool educators, specially oriented on the University of J.J.Strossmayer in Osijek. There have been a lot of different descriptions of how to understand a child and how to acknowledge it. For the present, we can say that a child is an equal participant in the educational process, so we adapt the education in nursery and kindergarten to the needs of a child. Adaptation of a child whilst going to the nursery is utmost importance. As a part of research conducted on the topic, students – future early and preschool educators have partaken in this poll where they stated their opinions towards working in nursery. Another part of the research was grading contentment of students that are on their third regular year of Early and Preschool Education based on their knowledge that is based on working in a nursery. Last part of the research was based on competence of the students to fullfill activities that are going to do while working with children in nurseries.