The contribution deals with searching new possibilities of developing key pupils' competencies through broad conception of education for citizenship, especially with free-time education. It presents results of a survey focused on certain elements of educational reality at basic schools, as well as on nature of children's and adolescents' free-time activities.
The facts confirmed the need to interconnect formal and informal ways of education, especially in the process of developing citizenship consciousness and as a part of school programs in preventing risk aspects of children's and adolescents' behavior. Education for citizenship can be effectively supported by proposed interdisciplinary system of free-time education in primary schools.