Abstract

Today it is important to start the formation of cultural consumption skills from preschool age and is an urgent process, because untimeliness can negatively affect the formation of basic personality characteristics, slows down the acquisition of life social experience. The article is a review, which highlights the problem of consumer knowledge in older preschool children in the context of economic education. The purpose of the article is to highlight, analyze and characterize the main skills of consumer culture as a basis for mastering the basics of economic competence of children in the developmental environment of preschool and family. To achieve this goal, we have identified a number of tasks: to clarify the basic concepts of "consumption culture", "economic culture", "economic education"; to substantiate the interdependence of the processes of economic consumption and education; to determine the principles and psychological and pedagogical prerequisites for the formation of cultural consumption skills in older preschool children. The relevance of this topic is that in the global spread of mass culture, the key values of which are entertainment and consumption, it is necessary to direct the younger generation to clearly form in older preschool children socially significant values, knowledge, norms and patterns of behavior, the right combination material and spiritual, which should become a purposeful and systematic pedagogical process. The formation of the foundations of consumer culture in older preschool children is seen as a process of purposeful, systematic interaction of adults (educators, parents) and pupils, during which children acquire sustainable skills of consumer culture in everyday life, society, and various activities. The article investigates the need to form a culture of consumption in classes on economic education of children in preschool education. The analysis of the last researches and publications on a problem of formation of consumer representations is carried out. The peculiarities of preparing preschoolers to acquire basic knowledge of economics are revealed and the relationship between economic education and consumption culture is clarified. Key words: consumption skills, consumption culture, economic culture, economic upbringing, economic competence.

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