PT Journal AU Zastkova, Z TI Developing the character of a child of primary education through cooperation in the current area of the curriculum SO EduPort PY 2020 BP 43 EP 50 VL 4 IS 1 DI 10.21062/edp.2020.002 DE Character; character development; cooperative learning and teaching; principles of cooperative learning and teaching; science. AB Since the State Educational Program for Primary Education in the Slovak Republic imposes the obligation to develop not only cognitive aspects of personality, but also to ensure equally social and emotional development, in this paper we deal with possibilities of developing prosocial behaviour of student through cooperative way of teaching in the subject of Science. In the selected educational activities, we specify how to ensure the development of science literacy, but in particular how we can enable the saturation of affective component of the students´ personalities through the implementation of the cooperative learning principles. ER