Keyword: «preschool age»

The article deals with topical issues of psychological and pedagogical theory and practice related to the implementation of the gender approach in inclusive preschool education. Attention is drawn to the importance of gender education for preschool children with disabilities and their peers with normative development in modern conditions. The results of the study of gender representations of preschoolers with and without speech disorders are presented.

The article discusses the theoretical basis for studying the problem of ideas about a small homeland in senior preschoolers in psychological science. It is concluded that at preschool age ideas about the world include a wide range of knowledge about various aspects of the surrounding reality and oneself, and ideas about a small homeland are formed in the context of general ideas about the world as a result of the child’s own activity and special educational and educational work of adults.

The article analyzes the ideas about the features of the development of communicative activity in preschoolers, presented in various studies. Under the communicative activity of the author refers to the interaction of two or more people, during which there is a perception, assessment and understanding of another person, as well as information exchange, resulting in a stable relationship between people. It is concluded that communication during the entire preschool age from the need for goodwill and the object and game interaction in the younger preschool age through the middle preschool period with the dominance of the desire to get the benevolent attention of the peer to the older preschool age with a characteristic need not only in the game and educational cooperation, but also in certain experiences.

The article deals with the issues of preschool teaching foreign languages. The authors touch upon the age and psychological peculiarities of 3-7-year-old children and how they influence language acquisition. The principles and techniques used with small children are given as an example of organizing teaching foreign languages in this age group. The results of the survey made in the group of future foreign language teachers with the aim of studying their attitude to the issue of early foreign language teaching are analyzed.

This article discusses the effectiveness of using the project method in environmental education of senior preschool age children. The purpose of this work is to identify the effectiveness of the development of ideas about the world of trees in senior preschoolers in the process of project activity. The leading methods for studying the problem are theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature and a pedagogical experiment. The authors present the ideas of senior preschoolers about the world of trees and characterize the project activity as a way of developing ideas about the world of trees among senior preschoolers. They also present the projects "Golden Autumn" and "Trees around the Kindergarten", and evaluate their effectiveness.