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TRENDS OF THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES IN THE SPHERE OF METHODS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION (1960s – THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY)
Authors: M. B. Evtukh, S. A. Sayapina
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The article proves that appearance of the special scientific
researches in the field of didactics of preschool education in the
1950s – 1960s was prepared by all previous development of theory
and practice of preschool pedagogy and became a fully natural fact.
A significant contribution to the theory there became the definition of
the essence of preschool education, its laws and principles, objectives
and content of educational work with children according to their age,
means and forms of education that would effectively solve the set
tasks, teaching methods and study techniques. Native preschool
didactics was enriched with the concept of preschool education,
which was seen as a unity of educational, pedagogical and teaching
work. There proposed the direct purposeful teaching of children at
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the compulsory collective lessons, which were given a certain place
and time in the day schedule of the preschool institution. The results
of the researches were put into the basis of creating the separate
techniques of preschool education (1960s – 1980s) that significantly
broadened and deepened theory and practice of teaching preschool
children.
In the study process, we have found that the best, the most
promising ideas of classical national pedagogy are the ideological
basis of the personality-oriented model of modern preschool
education, and at the same time, pedagogy has highlighted the urgent
need for rethinking a number of major categories of learning, in
conducting the large-scale experimental and scientific researches in
connection with the objectives of the radical reform of preschool
education, the solution of which has been and will be characteristic
feature of the further decades.