Keyword: «preschool age»

The article presents the results of an analysis of the research of Russian and foreign scientists on the influ-ence of creativity on the psychological health of preschool children. The relationship between mental health and creativity is considered. It was also determined that the development of creativity is mainly influenced by the subject-developing environment, which should be interesting for the child and contribute to his per-sonal development.

Before preschool educational institution there are many diverse tasks, including the education of a harmoniously developed and competitive personality. Competitive personality has such qualities as: creativity, the ability to adapt quickly, the possession of various skills, and a fairly high level of intelligence. We decided to understand how the educational field of visual creativity affects the development of the child's intelligence.

The article deals with the essence of cognitive activity and the pedagogical leadership of the development of the cognitive interest of preschool children. The necessity of development of cognitive activity as the decision of a problem of successful adaptation of the preschool child at school is revealed and proved.

One of the most relevant problems in such multinational country with variety of totally different cultures as Russia, is the problem of tolerant attitude education. Preschool education and upbringing as early stage in moral development of a child should play a special role in solving the problem of tolerance establishing. Unfortunately, modern pedagogical science doesn't pay sufficient attention to the problem of educating tolerant attitudes in children of older pre-school age to people of different nationalities. In our opinion, pedagogical conditions for this activity realization were not properly developed. It is necessary to work out theoretical principles and scientific-methodological support for educating tolerant attitudes to people of different nationalities among children of older pre-school age due to the following contradictions: at social-pedagogical level — between the needs of modern society in personality, who is capable of building relationships with people of other nationalities on tolerance basis, and insufficient elaboration of theoretically proved mechanisms and approaches to educating tolerant attitudes to people of different nationalities among children of older pre-school age; at scientific theoretical level — between modern developmental level of scientific ideas about tolerance and insufficient elaboration of modern scientific justification and technologies of educating tolerant attitudes to people of different nationalities among children of older pre-school age; at scientific methodological level — between formal admission of necessity to develop education of tolerant attitudes to people of different nationalities among children of older pre-school age and the weak elaboration of scientific methodological support of this pedagogical process. All this stipulated the purpose of the study: theoretical justification and experimental verification of effectiveness of pedagogical conditions for educating tolerant attitudes to people of different nationalities among 6–7 years old children in the preschool education system. The article represents the model for educating tolerant attitudes to people of different nationalities among children of older pre-school age in the preschool education system. Within our research framework, we consider pedagogical conditions as functional elements of this pedagogical model, providing achievement of a specific pedagogical goal.

. Children with mental retardation have significant deviations in the development of mental processes, motility and emotional-volitional sphere. This makes it difficult for them to master the mathematical knowledge necessary for the formation of a full-fledged social experience. Formation and development of mathematical concepts in preschoolers with intellectual disabilities is impossible without targeted correctional and developmental work. The article is devoted to the study of mathematical representations of preschoolers with mild mental retardation. Concrete examples are given related to the mastery of mathematical material by mentally retarded children of five to seven years old. Attention is focused on the peculiarities of the formation in children of ideas about quantity, space, time, size, form.